Learn Latin with me, for free!

judsoncarroll4

Have you ever wanted learn Latin? Maybe you need to as you study herbs, horticulture, botany, history, the Bible, the development of Christianity, medicine, law or philosophy? After 4 years of studying Latin, as a refresher, I am starting a shorter, more concise course for beginners who need to get the basics down fast. Study with me! I am creating free study sets at Quizlet and the textbook is available for free on archive. You can ask me any questions and I'll help as I can.

Learn Latin with me for free!  https://quizlet.com/_bxds3p?x=1jqt&i=26s5sr

Here is the link to the book: https://archive.org/search.php?query=Latin%20Grammar%3A%20Preparation%20for%20the%20Reading%20of%20the%20Missal%20and%20Breviary

Cornelius

This sounds fun! It would also help with learning other romance languages!

judsoncarroll4

https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/comment/916500#Comment_916500

Yep - Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese... even English is at least 1/3 Latin.

Cornelius

English is secretly a Frankenstein language. It takes bits and pieces from others and then breaks its own rules. 🤣

judsoncarroll4

https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/comment/916506#Comment_916506

We studied ancient anglo-saxon in high school. I enjoyed it. If you combine that with Latin, German and a bit of Gealic, you pretty much get Ehglish. It is funny though, to read the old ENglish herbals from the 1500s of so and it seems like they cuss a lot.... turns out there was a French influence on ENglish then, that was later considered profane.

Michelle D

Thanks @judsoncarroll4! I will love to study Latin. Not knowing it has definitely been a road block in my learning about plants.

Linda Bittle

Need to know the binomial names for wildlife tracking, too!

judsoncarroll4

https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/comment/916540#Comment_916540

True!

marjstratton

I am currently taking German and French. Not sure I'm ready to take up another language. But, yes, Latin would be very useful.

JennyT Upstate South Carolina

I'm hoping it will help me with the Latin names for plants. I really struggle with that.

Also, my kids are taking Latin in our homeschool group. So hopefully it will help me with that too. 😉

Thanks for offering to do this, @judsoncarroll4.😁

VermontCathy

I bought a book years ago intending to learn simple ancient Greek, but after the first chapter I bogged down. Greek uses a different alphabet from English, and that really adds to the challenge.

Someday I'd like to study Latin, which should be easier than Greek because it uses our familiar alphabet. No time now, though!