Some More Translation Practice...

To get better at translating or to start studying a text try the first few paragraphs of Horace the Satires (Book 1) below:

gressum magna me accepit Aricia Roma
hospition modico: rhetor comes Heliodorus,
Graecorum longe doctissimus; inde Forum Appi,
differtum nautis, cauponibus atque malignis.

hoc iter ignavi divisimus, altius ac nos (5)
praecinctis unum: minus est gravis Appia tardis.
Hic ego propter aquam, quod erat deterrima, ventri
indico bellum, cenantis haud animo aequo
exspectans comites. iam nox inducere terris

umbras et caelo diffundere signa parabat. (10)
tum pueri nautis, pueris convicia nautae
ingerere. “huc apelle!” “trecentos inseris: ohe
iam satis est!” dum aes exigitur, dum mula ligatur,
tota abit hora. mali culices ranaeque palustres

Powerpoints, Audio files and more...

If you want to try different ways of learning Latin, or are looking for some more resources, try this website out. Created for high school students, it has a variety of different levels:
The Main Site: Latin at Grady High School
Latin I
Latin II
Latin III

Worksheet- Myths

For something different this week, I am providing you with a worksheet about Latin/Roman myths which you can try to solve.
Worksheet 1 Myths in general

Video

Today's post is a short video/animation looking around a Roman house

Roman Empire

To build on your background here are some websites and videos you could look at.
BBC - Romans
Roman Empire
The BBC have also had a series called What The Romans did for Us. The 5th Episode will be shown on BBC four on Monday at 19.30 GMT for those of you in England.

Declensions Song

Anyone out there struggling to remember which declension a word is may find this video helpful. Which has tips on how to recognise the declensions in the form of a song.
Sadly embedding is disabled so here's the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNlYWyaEbTQ

Translation Practice

As you have probably heard time and time again, practice will make you prefect. So today I have provided you with a website which generates a random Latin sentence and provides a translation so you can check your one.
So check out SCRIBAX for some more practice

If you need any help in for vocabulary, this is an online dictionary.

Online Dictionary

6 Months on...

I'm not sure if you were aware of this but this blog was born 6 months ago (November 2008) and since then it has been quite successful, I will let you see for yourselves.

Statistics:
Pageviews: 800+
Visitors- 500+ from 44 different coutries
Blog Posts- 36- And in the coming 6 months my aim will be to make these more regular and helpful.

The aim of this post is to thank all of you out there for being willing to Learn Latin- It's clearly not as dead as some people believe.