I want to teach myself Latin how do I study it and what texts should I learn

[@lukeraybould]

This is amazing. I completely agree with you. Whenever I start learning a new language I begin with reading, listening and speaking, you need to use more than just reading to learn. It pains me to talk to latin students who tell me they never talk in it because 'latin is a dead language'

[@JesusFriedChickenBadly]

+Evan der Millner viventibus latina vivit

[@infinitesimotel]

Ironically it is actually modern English that is dead, not Latin: modern English is completely contrived and empty of meaning, the legalites call it Dog Latin, it is a language given to us. The meanings have been barstadised and no one has a clue what the true meaning of the words we use are, and I don't mean from an approved dictionary.

[@koltoncrane3099]

You’re right. A lot of words have been bastardized. Gay used to mean happy and was used in songs. It’s since been used to refer to homosexuals. But what do you mean the true meaning of words aren’t known? Britain did a dictionary that defined words and showed how its use or meaning progressed through time. If English is bastardized and true meanings are unknown does that mean Spanish, French etc have been bastardized and their meanings are unknown?

[@TheBlueShip100]

@@infinitesimotel The fact that you used English to express this point is somewhat self-refuting, wouldn't you say?

[@xblackcatx1312]

You seem like a rare, basically extinct, breed -- A REAL teacher. You make so much sense. Most teachers, and the school ( indoctrination) system are a disaster ( by design) in the Post Modern world. I've just started trying to learn Latin. I couldn't do it with out people like you. Thanks. I appreciate it very much.

[@LatinumInstitute]

Thanks. Have you found my resources at latinum.org.uk yet?

[@keepitreal333]

You have put a lot of work into this, well done! Thank you for sharing your valuable learning and knowledge 🙌🏽

[@deannap.6166]

Magister, I owe you an enormous debt. Finding your work here is like stumbling upon an oasis in the desert. I actually found your work looking for the pronunciation of Psalm 23 to teach my young Latin students. I know only enough to help them with some of the most basic grammar and simple sentence translation but I am growing. After having listened to you for a week, I've acquired my first copy of the Orbis Pictus and will take your course. Praises are due to you as I cannot imagine the discipline and fortitude it has taken you to make this accessible to the world. Deus vobiscum, Magistra Pfau, Pennsylvania, US

[@adanvega7493]

Wow! I'm impressed at your perseverance. Thank you for your time and effort.

[@Longlivetrance1]

Salve Molendenari vel Evan, I've followed you and the Latinum project for some time now, but I wanted to put a note out there expressing my profound thanks for all that you do. I've definitely neglected doing so for far too long (several years now, by my reckoning). I started following you as a supplement when I was taking Latin in college, unfortunately my university only offered two semesters of the Language, since then I have been in great part using your lessons, materials and ideas.(I've purchased materials from your website before as well!) I do believe they have given me a far higher degree of fluency than I could have ever hoped to attain had I stuck with Wheelock's and college courses. As of a few weeks ago I am a first through fifth grade Latin teacher, here in the states that means 6-11 year old pupils. I couldn't be happier with it, and it is in the largest part due to you and your lessons. Certainly I still have much to learn, but I'm learning more every day - the act of teaching is itself an amazing teacher! Anyway, my profound thanks to you and all that you do - it really makes a difference, even if people like me wait a very long time to tell you so. Gratias maximas tibi ago mi bone magister, Iacobus

[@Cachoeira1986]

We should reconsider our methode of learning latin. Mr Evan is a pioneer. Thanks to his incredible work, we are able to learn it the most efficiant way, like a modern language. This is the way it and other old languages like greek should be teached in school.

[@johnnybagofdoughnuts4193]

Just found this video because I started Latin on Duolingo! Thanks!

[@sarak6860]

I'm still learning Latin on Duolingo. I kind of like it. But I have lots of other resources, too.

[@CharlieeAdam]

@@sarak6860 Can you give us these resources please?

[@auntpurl5325]

Your perseverance is inspiring!

[@mathchart]

You are wonderful example of a dedicated teacher. Bravo! Tibi gracias ago.

[@ashie563]

I don’t know why but I want to learn Latin just for the fun of it and because I want to talk to my friends in Latin and be annoying

[@scoutmiller8200]

Ashie 🤣 me too! I keep starting to learn things for that reason and just giving up after like a day...

[@Aditya-te7oo]

@@scoutmiller8200 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@admiralmurat2777]

Thank you for your work sir.

[@zng8629]

Big appreciation for that program！

[@lesilluminations1]

I have a BA major Latin. Retired now and I would like to start all over but with this approach. I will have a look at your site.

[@georockable]

Hi Evan, I'm a history student who is looking to go into a masters and PhD in early medieval history (the Merovingians, specifically, I'll be having to look at a lot of charters in quite 'imperfect' Latin, but I gather learning classical Latin is always the very best way to go) and I've had your Adler audio lessons in the back of my mind since last year. This year for Christmas I've asked for some money to go towards purchasing them, so I should be able to get most if not all of them by the new year, and no doubt I'll feed back to you every 6 months or so (whether you like it or not), but thank you in advance for undertaking such a huge task to help people learn to become fluent in the language! And thank you so much for putting this video up last year, it's hard to know where to hedge your bets when trying to learn a language but this video is so very informative, persuasive, and most importantly gives me great confidence in your understanding of Latin and your dedication to the teaching of it! So thanks again and merry Christmas/happy holidays! - Sam

[@peterlange5624]

I know that your method works from my own experience with English. The "Voice of America" did produce regular broadcasting programmes "VoA Special English" for people with a basic knowledge of English. Radio speakers are speaking with around 2/3 of normal spoken English and a vocabulary of around 1500 words that's enough to communicate english. The programmes are not useful for beginners. After listening to these programmes during the 90s for half a year on shortwave I was able to understand BBC programmes without problems. I was fluent enough to remember words I did not understand and look for them in dictionaries. A half year before I could not do that. VoA Special English became the basis for my current ability to read, write and speak English.

[@pianistNorganist]

I am one of those said persons who is learning Latin on their own without any help. I'm still very fresh in learning the language. So with your advice and tutoring, should I start with working on Adler first, then move on to Comenius Vestibulum? or go through them at the same time? Regardless I'll get them both eventually but I just want to know which to focus in on first.

[@pianistNorganist]

+Evan der Millner Thanks! I'll go ahead and look into it then

[@israelblaauw9702]

How’s it goin

[@mehakverma7043]

I'm attending lawschool in Scotland and we have a vast amount of books in latin. I'm from Canada so we most certainly do not have access to such books there. So I want to try and read as many of those books I can. I'm here for four years, so if I can just get the gist of latin in a year or two, enough to be able to read it, that would be amazing because I fear that I won't have access to these books after I complete my studies.

[@4331550686]

lto learn latin just four books : cambridge latin book 1 2 3 4, lingua illustrata orberg"s , colloqia personarum orberg's second book , and orbis pictus .

[@augma3]

Thank you so much for all your hard work! I've been using the adler course for a few months, and so far i think it is truly great. In additon, I recently aquired Hans Ørbergs "Lingua latina per se ilustrata", which I've also found to be very helpful in aquiring reading proficiency. What are your thoughts on Ørberg's "natural method"? And more spesifically, do you think it is a good companion to your Adler course? Greetings from Norway, August

[@janicegirlando4528]

Great way to understand Shakespeare, Cicero, Roman literature .Verses in the Bible. I was really waiting for Evan to say or read something in Latin, right there in the video himself. I mean hey what’s up ?Mr. Latin!!

[@LatinumInstitute]

Have a look at this new Latin course I am developing - it is going to be available for free on KZbin: if you like it, you can support this project at my Patreon. The course is entirely in Latin. lnkd.in/eXEe4hQ

[@arizaliit]

Helpful video. Thank you

[@masmantour]

I have decided to attempt a degree in Classical History or perhaps Ancient History. Is learning Latin on my own as I attempt to admission to an undergraduate program a good way to go about it?

[@MeghanaUppala-Flute]

i have the same question! did u get an answer? 😁

[@masmantour]

@@MeghanaUppala-Flute hello. I don't think I did. I ended up majoring in philosophy and minoring in classical studies. I can offer advice based on what you want to do with your classical education. You can self study and take competency tests, take classes offered by your university, or even take languages at other institutions or programs and have them transferred in. At the undergraduate level, there aren't a lot of well known classical programs, so cobbling together a curriculum is common. At the graduate level a lot of different things will come into affect your ability to get into a program, and, of course, having experience working with the classical languages (be that Hebrew, Greek, or Latin) is a nice resume boost. However, it is by no means something that will definitely prevent you from being accepted to a program. Particularly if you come from an underrepresented department and are going into a master's program that emphasizes preparing for a doctoral program. My advice is to study hard and study often, figure out how committed you are, and see how much formal exposure to classical studies, history, and language you can get in your current circumstances. Being able to demonstrate some competency is half the battle.

[@MeghanaUppala-Flute]

@@masmantour oh okay! thanks so much for the advice. im not at uni yet, but i do want to go into history. I'm really into learning new languages so latinum would be cool to learn, regardless. Hope you're doing well!

[@masmantour]

@@MeghanaUppala-Flute if you can get a hold of Wheelock's Latin, it's grammar heavy, but the best textbook I've used. Combine it a reader and you've got a good starting point for studying Latin. I hope you enjoy the rest of your schooling.

[@MeghanaUppala-Flute]

@@masmantour thank you! okay, I'm currently listening/watching an introduction to latin course on youtube, so once i kinda get it, ill start on that :) what "reader" would u suggest?

[@RingsOfSolace]

I'm not learning as a student. I'm learning as a personal thing, I learned Spanish so I already know how a language is learned (although I'm curious if I can even get any auditory input in Latin), and I wanna be able to read it and see the connections between it, English, Spanish, and any other languages that I learn in my life moving forward from here.

[@lukedurham8212]

Excellent

[@eso_erica]

I'm sure you've been asked this before, so I apologize if you're having to repeat yourself, but what do you think of Ørberg's Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata? It's basically the immersion/natural method taken to its full extent, so I was surprised not to see any mention of it here.

[@LatinumInstitute]

It is perfectly good as a text based method.

[@pqasdpojjdd8027]

I 've good hear and very good repronaciation ,but structure and save words in my brain(it is two face of one coin) it 8s very very hard to me. It is from shcool. I left hand but started to school 1992 years,and do not use my left hand from pen)))forgot this word. So. This moment for all. For one to hard from other -to easy.

[@didierleprince6106]

Merci 😊

[@crossfitsilverback942]

3 years high school, 2 semesters college not once did we converse. All translation on paper.

[@thomasyang1786]

Chúc mừng thầy lộc đã sây nhà mới và cũng chút luôn đại gia đình thầy luôn luôn vui vẻ và thật nhiều sức khỏe

[@chazcarothers135]

What's your opinion on the Cambridge Units? My son is currently learning via online with a tutor. studying the Minimus series but will eventually transition to Cambridge Latin.

[@LatinumInstitute]

Cambridge is fine, and most UK schools use it. He might find some of my material a useful supplement.

[@JPKloess]

Is this for ecclesiastical or classical latin?

[@themule8625]

The language is the same the only difference is pronunciation.

[@richardyao9012]

The difference between the two is like the difference in English spoken in California and in New York. They are the same thing with minor pronunciation differences.

[@peterlange5624]

Hello Evan Your course sounds very promising. After watching the video completely one question is left. You explained that language scientists were able to reconstruct pronounciation of classical and church Latin due to lots of text which survived nearly 2000 years. It seems to me that this knowledge is theoretical because Latin had always been a dead language during times when Latin was used as scientific communication language in Europe and still is. Nobody ever heard a native Roman speaker. How do you know that you pronounce Latin properly? Regards Peter

[@thesurvivor2949]

Thanks

[@apsolventkubni4273]

Evan, could you please give us some advices about learning classical greek language... or at least recommend us few good books for studying this language as a beginner?

[@thomaswest4033]

This is very late but in case anyone sees this, Athenaze, is the best Ancient Greek textbook. It teaches you through stories, goes by bit by bit. So on. Rather than many others that solely focus on the grammar (Why not enjoy both?)

[@rekkobold7998]

Thank you for this, I'm new to latin and would love to learn to be fluent

[@batbite_]

Do you recommend leaning a bit of grammar first or should I just go to your website naked of previous knowledge?

[@LatinumInstitute]

Hi, I teach the grammar slowly and thoroughly, I would just begin using the course outline at latinum.org.uk and you'll be fine.

[@Airland_combat]

What if I want to learn it because I think it's interesting. Because I know English (US) which is my native language and Ich bin kennt Deutsch or I know German. But I find Latin kind of inspiring. I also want to try to keep that language living in some way.

[@LatinumInstitute]

Have a look at this new Latin course I am developing - it is going to be available for free on KZbin: if you like it, you can support this project at my Patreon. The course is entirely in Latin. lnkd.in/eXEe4hQ

[@TheBlueShip100]

Ich bin kennt Deutsch?!?!?!??! whaaaaaaa?????? Thats some po-faced satire my boy!

[@ma.9029]

is it easier for someone who speaks a latin based language? for example, i’m fluent in portuguese and study italian and french for some time. also, after learning latin do you learn latin based languages easier? this questions may sound a bit stupid but i’m curious

[@bonniebrown1566]

There’s no such thing as a stupid question! Yes, it will be much easier for you. Especially if you want to learn classical restored Latin vs ecclesiastical. You will already be used to the vowel sounds that can be difficult for English speakers without your experience. The vocabulary will also be more familiar to you. So you have a head start. Go for it!

[@ma.9029]

@@bonniebrown1566 Thank you so much!! ♡

[@ladeedah7875]

Is it useful for me to purchase a book written in Latin (specifically one i find interesting: Spinoza's Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione) and read it alongside an English-Latin dictionary and the Vox Latina? I am expecting to pick up the grammar as i go along like a baby does.

[@snava360z334]

who made the orange book for you and where can i find the scans ?

[@jackmc4061]

Hello, I just wanted to ask you if you can clear something up for me. I'm not sure if you can answer this for me or not. "defénde nos in proélio", does this translate to "defend us in battle"? I'm just asking because in the Latin version of the St.Michael the archangel prayer "proélio" is used for "battle". Does it roughly translate to this or does it have a different meaning?

[@LatinumInstitute]

athirdway.com/glossa/?s=proelium

[@mjdubroy]

Are all the audio resources with classical pronunciation or are there some with Italian/Ecclesiastical?

[@mjdubroy]

+Evan der Millner are you aware of anyone doing similar work that you are doing but with the Italian/Ecclesiastical pronunciation? Is even the Missa Sancta which you sell in the restored classical pronunciation?

[@overclucker]

In celebration of the apocalypse, today I shall begin learning Latin.

[@Anna-bm3oe]

Latin courses are very hard to find in my country, so I guess I'll just have to self study :(

[@LatinumInstitute]

www.latinum.org.uk has everything you need

[@dusty1512]

Is there anyone taking his course on Latinum? I started with the first step but omg genders confused me already. Does it get better? Or should go with another course?

[@LatinumInstitute]

Did you start with the Serial and Oral course?

[@Uglysub5]

Can someone be fluent in Latin?

[@LatinumInstitute]

Yes. Have a look at this new Latin course I am developing - it is going to be available for free on KZbin: if you like it, you can support this project at my Patreon. The course is entirely in Latin. lnkd.in/eXEe4hQ

[@Spiraculumvitae]

Básicamente Adler's grammar and buy your course, I save you 10 minutes.

[@deanc685]

Evan. Will Rosetta Stone help with spoken interaction in addition to using written works?

[@deanc685]

Evan. I have been using a combination of your videos, Lengua Latina, and Rosetta. I use Rosetta the least and have not found it helpful other than an orientation to modern latin. I really benefit from your videos as it seems one of the few sources focused on spoken classical latin and expect I will use it more and more as my ability increases. Thanks for responding.

[@ted1045]

The website appears to no longer be functioning.

[@LatinumInstitute]

It is now - I rebooted it, and it took a while for the links to propagate. www.latinum.org.uk/home

[@Laocoon283]

I'm trying to learn latin to help me pick up latina chicks. How do you say what's your number?

[@Dionysiandreams]

But ”Hate” and ”Hat” aren’t examples of a long and a short vowel right? ”Cat” and ”Garden” are, or am I missing something?

[@Mateo-et3wl]

Hat and had might be better if you want to contrast vowel length without changing vowel quality. (The a in had is longer because it's followed by a voiced consonant.) Similar pairs of short / long vowels: Back / bag Gift / give Pot / pod Etc

[@DS-hw8id]

There’s a difference in quantity s as well as quality. I can’t think of a minimal pair in English where only vowel length make a phonemic difference. The analogy is flawed but the only one to make of the addressee is monolingual anglophone

[@hckoenig]

"They have to render their Latin into their language first in order to understand it." This is impossible. You can't translate a sentence or text, whatever the source language may be,, without understanding it. You have to understand it FIRST in order to produce a translation.

[@4331550686]

and some italian to learn intonation and stress

[@Deckbark]

Anglicus est lingua barbara

[@Agent77X]

Go to medical or law school!😊

[@peterlange5624]

Hello Evan Your course sounds very promising. After watching the video completely one question is left. You explained that language scientists were able to reconstruct pronounciation of classical and church Latin due to lots of text which survived nearly 2000 years. It seems to me that this knowledge is theoretical because Latin had always been a dead language during times when Latin was used as scientific communication language in Europe and still is. Nobody ever heard a native Roman speaker. How do you know that you pronounce Latin properly? Regards Peter

[@St1cKnGoJuGgAlO]

The same texts they are talking about discuss the sound of the language. Even in ancient Rome they had grammar teachers and grammar books. For instance we know the "R" was rolled because it was described as thr sound of a dog growling