Learn Latin!

[Tom Paine]

Which board did you do and which level? OCR Higher Tier wasn't bad, despite the not choosing my strongest bits of the book...

[Tom Paine]

Does that even do Latin? I thought only OCR did any more...

[God]

no they stopped letting new people in last year.

[Sitarus Originalus PM-30+]

cool discusion... here is the link to latin phrases, maybe some of you are interested and will learn a few =)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...E2%80%93E%29#A

dixi ("I have spoken")

[God]

OK then Latin speakers, translate these for me:

Sona si latine loqueris.

Quantitas magna frumentorum est.

Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.

[Tom Paine]

The first, "only if you speak latin"; the second, "What a great quantity of grain it is" or similar, though the grammar seems shot to hell; the third starts "I cannot hear you" then I can't do the rest.

[God]

Well apparently (key word here) they mean:

honk if you speak Latin,
that's a lot of corn,
I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear(?)

...apparently

Don't ask where they're from, it's a long, pointless and boring story that I don't want to write down.

[Zuwxiv]

Out of 61 questions on the Latin Poetry (was that the number?) I got somewhere around 40 ish. I don't remember exactly, it was the highest score in my class I think. Maybe it was 50? I'll check.

[Tom Paine]

Out of 61 questions on the Latin Poetry (was that the number?) I got somewhere around 40 ish. I don't remember exactly, it was the highest score in my class I think. Maybe it was 50? I'll check.

Did you do Virgil or the other?
I know the Verse Literature in the OCR GCSE was out of 60... (I did it Tuesday, I can still remember the number!)

[Pride]

hi all, can someone help me out. im looking for a good sounding latin cognomen that describes strength within or golden, i found fortius, flavius and valerius. sadly they dont look or sound good for me

are there other latin words out there that translates to strenght or gold?
is it right to keep the -i on flavius or just flavus when used in names.


and also any substute for ave, salve or hail for greetings.. like hiya or whats up? : )

[KingOfTheIsles]

Which board did you do and which level? OCR Higher Tier wasn't bad, despite the not choosing my strongest bits of the book...

Yep, that one. Words cannot describe how annoyed I was when "Catullus invites a friend to dinner" didn't come up; that was by far the easier one. And despite the fact that the extract of Echo and Narcissus was the exact extract that our teacher redicted, I still managed to not understand a word. Ah well, at least it's only a hobby, and not a really important subject.

[HMMcKamikaze]

Arbore fatus est. Meh i know a little latin, ive been taking it for a year but we dont learn anything.

[ModderWannabe]

note sure if someone has said this before, but youre using the cambridge latin curriculum Caecillius is one sweet dude...until he dies

[Tom Paine]

Heh, you poor person, the Virgil was far nicer than the prescribed verse despite being about Dido... meh, they still managed to choose my weaker parts of it!

[KingOfTheIsles]

Yeah I know, despite not having studied the text, I was looking at it and thinking that I could've answered a few of the questions. I still should've been alright, because Catullus is so easy to read, but somehow I just forgot to do any revision at all...

[Illyrian]

excuse me fellas but i wanted to know what "sicarius" the weapon is and "sibyna", thank you

[Vangelis]

Hi there, i've studied 6 years latin in high school, so im pretty good at translating. Here's an exemple of what we had to translate:

http://users.skynet.be/willeml/aeneis/AeneisI.html

i suggest if you rlly want to learn latin, you have to buy multiple books etc.
lol its harder than you think.

[felicissimus]

Saluti amici Romani ! Was that correct ?!

Or shouild it be -

Saluto vobis amici mei que di**** (vorbeant ) linqua Latina !?

p.s. hey,how can this be .In the upper sentence I wanted to spell the verb "dico" in plural and it came out right away in stars as if I swear smth ! I hate this authomation in this forum!

[rory o'kane]

Salve omnes! Quagis?
i love latin. being welsh, and having attended welsh language schools since the age of 3 (my nursery was a welsh language one), i've noticed there are a couple of words in welsh that are derived from latin, specifically things like ffenest (window in welsh) and Pont (bridge in welsh). The only real difference between those and latin, is that there's a double F in welsh, which produces the same sound as an english F. a single f in welsh is softer, like the english "v". not relevant, but there we go i wish my latin was better than it is...

[felicissimus]

Salve omnes! Quagis?
i love latin. being welsh, and having attended welsh language schools since the age of 3 (my nursery was a welsh language one), i've noticed there are a couple of words in welsh that are derived from latin, specifically things like ffenest (window in welsh) and Pont (bridge in welsh). The only real difference between those and latin, is that there's a double F in welsh, which produces the same sound as an english F. a single f in welsh is softer, like the english "v". not relevant, but there we go i wish my latin was better than it is...

To calm you,in Romanian is almost the same as in welsh "fereastra" .I wonder how is it in spanish,french or Italian ?! God this is the result of being one and the same country before .....2000 years .
Actually I would have expected it from everywhere but not from Scotland.Weren't you beyond that famous wall ,Hadrian's or whoever,I don't remember ??!!
Ah and bridge is "pons" in Latin ,similar in Romanian.