How Much Latin Have You Studied?

[MichaelF]

2 years. Classical (my AA was in Classics). Wheelock-based.

Only took me about 1500 flashcards.

Edited July 11, 2007 by MichaelF

[MichaelF]

[quote name='Nadezhda' post='1254381' date='Apr 23 2007, 06:33 PM']and about 3 months of Welsh.[/quote]

You mean "Northern Swahili", right?

[Seven77]

the Gloria, Credo and Pater Noster from Mother Angelica's latin school...

[Seven77]

[quote name='StThomasMore' post='1254737' date='Apr 23 2007, 10:46 PM']Or maybe it's because I had a good deal of experience with Latin before I started taking it this year. Or maybe it's because I actually want to take the class unlike 75% of my class who only take it because they are forced to. Or maybe it's because every time we learn a new case, or a new declension, I can totally relate to it from the Mass or the Little Office (which I pray in Latin during the Summer when I have time). Or maybe it's all of these reasons.[/quote]

nerd.

[photosynthesis]

I've never taken Latin formally, although I've found that after many years of singing Latin choral works I can navigate my way through the Tridentine Mass without knowing *exactly* what everything means.

[StColette]

I'm being able to pick up on some of it because of having 3 1/2 years (after July 4 yrs) of French. Micah will have a lifetime to teach me though. We've both decided that we want to teach our children languages. I'll teach French and he's going to teach Latin.

[scardella]

I took two years of latin in high school.

My teacher taught us a couple songs, even a praise and worship song that was translated into Latin.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='scardella' post='1324269' date='Jul 11 2007, 11:00 AM']My teacher taught us a couple songs, even a praise and worship song that was translated into Latin.[/quote]
Hehehe...I always told myself that if I could play a guitar, I'd do that.

"Bonum est...laudare Deum...et cantare Nomini, O Domine...proclamare caritatem...per diem et in noctem...lai lai lai, lai lai lai-lai lai, lai lai lai lai lai, lai lai lai-lai lai lai lai..."

[photosynthesis]

[quote name='Raphael' post='1324327' date='Jul 11 2007, 01:08 PM']Hehehe...I always told myself that if I could play a guitar, I'd do that.

"Bonum est...laudare Deum...et cantare Nomini, O Domine...proclamare caritatem...per diem et in noctem...lai lai lai, lai lai lai-lai lai, lai lai lai lai lai, lai lai lai-lai lai lai lai..."[/quote]
Maybe if we translated more P&W songs into Latin it would solve the unsightly problem of dorky hand motions in Church. There's something about singing in Latin that makes it hard to do interpretive dance.

Or we could just go back to Gregorian Chant and polyphony.

[Ash Wednesday]

[quote name='photosynthesis' post='1324530' date='Jul 11 2007, 03:46 PM']Or we could just go back to Gregorian Chant and polyphony.[/quote]

I'm all for howling, grunting and squealing.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='photosynthesis' post='1324530' date='Jul 11 2007, 02:46 PM']Maybe if we translated more P&W songs into Latin it would solve the unsightly problem of dorky hand motions in Church. There's something about singing in Latin that makes it hard to do interpretive dance.

Or we could just go back to Gregorian Chant and polyphony.[/quote]

YES! I can't stand vernacular hymns. Even the traditional ones like "Immaculate Mary." I think all ecclesiastical music should be chant or polyphony in Latin.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='StThomasMore' post='1324675' date='Jul 11 2007, 06:11 PM']YES! I can't stand vernacular hymns. Even the traditional ones like "Immaculate Mary." I think all ecclesiastical music should be chant or polyphony in Latin.[/quote]
May I ask why?

[johnnydigit]

[quote name='Maggie' post='1253680' date='Apr 22 2007, 07:31 PM']Just one college-level course in Latin... Would have taken more, but wouldn't you know it, that stuff costs money! Maybe some day I will go back and learn more. I'd love to get some Greek and Hebrew, too [/quote]

same here.



[quote name='Raphael' post='1253825' date='Apr 22 2007, 09:52 PM']8 years, variety of both types. HS Latin I, HS Latin II, HS Latin III, AP Latin (Ovid/Catullus), a year of on and off Latin study while learning Biblical Greek, College Intermediate Latin I, College Intermediate Latin II, Roman Comedy (Plautus/Terence), Aeneid (Virgil), Epistolary Latin (letters, both famous and obscure), and now Medieval Latin (mostly Thomas of Celano, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Bonaventure).

[/quote]

same here. not.

[Groo the Wanderer]

Ethray earsay inya igpay atinlay....

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Raphael' post='1324676' date='Jul 11 2007, 05:13 PM']May I ask why?[/quote]

Becuase I feel that since the texts of almost all Latin chant and polyphony are contained in the Missal of Breviary, their texts are more official. Also, melodies of chant and polyphony are more suitable for liturgical use.

That I think all ecclesiastical music should be chant or polyphony in Latin, I only meant for the Roman Rite. I think the Eastern Churches should use only their traditional chants in their traditional liturgical languages.