It’s probably 3 years since I started learning Latin, but it’s usually days of intense activity followed by weeks or months of literally nothing. I don’t intend on giving up though, it takes a long time to forget what one learns.
In my previous two sessions, the start of which was in summer, I began to do structured composition exercises other than passively reading the LLPSI and the other related books. Hence I was able to get a feel for how a sentence could be structured, at least in Indicative.
In my current session I learned
more conjunctions and suffixes
more ablative phrases (a lot of them)
time expressions
verbs related to likes, dislikes and emotions
verbs related to secrecy and stealth
verbs related to thinking and recalling
verbs related to carrying things, weirdly enough
mihi sunt other than habeo, eis sunt other than habent, and others of the same.
Back when I learned English in elementary, we had an activity where we would underline phrases of connected words. I applied it to my Latin composition exercises, and it seems to have helped because back then Latin sentences seemed amorphous to me.
I saw a comment that said grammar lessons should happen after exposure, not before. It should give a lightbulb moment. I agree. Analysing with our limited short term memory what conjugation family a given verb is in, is less efficient than having already known it through a sort of muscle memory.
My next steps would probably be reading my compositions out loud into an audio journal and reviewing it. I think my Latin pronounciation is decent aside from some r-rolling difficulties. Then I will learn Subjunctive and the other moods.
By session I mean not just an hourly session within a day, it’s more like the days of when I’m dedicated to studying, separated by weeks or months of inactivity. Yesterday I did 8 straight hours of study, the day before that was like 4 hours. My previous session was recorded to be at 1st, 2nd and 4th week of June.
It’s probably 3 years since I started learning Latin, but it’s usually days of intense activity followed by weeks or months of literally nothing. I don’t intend on giving up though, it takes a long time to forget what one learns.
In my previous two sessions, the start of which was in summer, I began to do structured composition exercises other than passively reading the LLPSI and the other related books. Hence I was able to get a feel for how a sentence could be structured, at least in Indicative.
In my current session I learned
Back when I learned English in elementary, we had an activity where we would underline phrases of connected words. I applied it to my Latin composition exercises, and it seems to have helped because back then Latin sentences seemed amorphous to me.
I saw a comment that said grammar lessons should happen after exposure, not before. It should give a lightbulb moment. I agree. Analysing with our limited short term memory what conjugation family a given verb is in, is less efficient than having already known it through a sort of muscle memory.
My next steps would probably be reading my compositions out loud into an audio journal and reviewing it. I think my Latin pronounciation is decent aside from some r-rolling difficulties. Then I will learn Subjunctive and the other moods.