Vanderbrew

Last week I didn’t do any Latin. I felt like I was too busy with work and other stuff to find the time for it. Towards the end of the week (while I was reading blogs during a short break from work) I realized that I did in fact have the time, I just had to find it.

This week I’m starting back to getting up at 5 and doing my Latin first thing when I get up. I don’t even crack my computer (it’s a laptop) until it’s done.

Two days in and it’s working well.

Non periculum videt.

Wishful thinking? (Yes, I only know third person and I don’t think that that’s a correct usage of ‘non’ but hopefully those of you who know Latin can understand my broken form.)

Some day I will read this.

The kids are in bed. Amber’s working on our finances in Quicken. I’ve got a beer. I’m catching up on Latin homework.

I think that I need some new verbs, there’s only so much you can do with praise, see and pray. Especially when you only know third person singular and plural.

We learned two verbs!

Did Macbeth have any sailors in his castle?

It’s 11 PM on a Friday night and I’ve finished my Latin work for the week. I now feel confident in my knowledge of first declension endings, how gender works for first declension, and I can tell you how to say “of the forest” (silvae), “to Mary” (Mariae), “with the gates” (portis), and “of the lands” (terrarum). Not bad for our first week of work.

So far I’m enjoying it. The only downside is that it makes my hand and wrist tired and sore - I hope that that clears up soon.

As Amber mentioned we received our new Latin material. I went through Day 2’s lessons today and my right hand and wrist are tired and a bit sore. I haven’t written out stuff like this since college. These days I type almost everything so I wonder how long it’ll take to get back into “writing shape”.

I’m really looking forward to going through the program and (re)learning Latin. I had a year of it in High School and I suspect that some things will come back to me but I’m not sure how much. One thing that I’m already stumbling over is pronunciation. In HS, we used the classical pronunciation, but Amber and I are now learning the Roman/Church pronunciation. The biggest difference I’ve run into so far is in ‘v’ and ‘c’, but I think I’ll be able to adapt.