I'm going to be officially skipping Latin 2 I guess because my schedule is a dick, which means I have to do it on my own over the summer. : \
I've got a copy of Wheelock that my teacher lent me, and I haven't asked yet but I think my teacher will let me keep the book that is used for the class over the summer (Cambridge Latin course unit 2)
oh, those are good. personally I had Ecce Romani for Latin 1 through, like, Latin 2.25, and then I went to high school, where after examining my placement exam they decided to put me in Advanced Latin 3. we did not use a textbook in that class because the amount of new grammar was manageable without one and also my teacher was like the least structured person ever. good teacher, though; I had him two terms this year, too. but if you have anything you can't figure out by yourself, feel free to hit up this thread! I don't have a grammar reference text, but I do have Wiktionary and that's as good as.
oh gosh, so like this is just me questioning for future things; like i have a character who knows and speaks latin, and i want to kind of put that in her general speak (like she knows english, but can't speak it well because of a speech impediment she has) is there a way to do that, or no? :0
well, you could have her use words with Latin roots instead of Anglo-Saxon ones? the ones from Latin are usually the fancy five-syllable ones, though, so if she has difficulty speaking she may not do well with them. word order also doesn't matter in Latin, but it matters a lot in English, so if she can say things that can be puzzled out but still have weird word order that would reflect her knowing Latin. if you want you can probably also mess around with the alphabet and sounds—like, the alphabet the Romans used doesn't have a J, a U, or a W, and the letters K, Y, and Z were only used for writing loanwords from Greek. instead of J they had consonantal I, which was pronounced pretty much like a J, and they had both consonantal and vowel V, the latter of which we now write as U. in terms of pronunciation it's not a lot different from English, but consonantal V was pronounced like a W and C was always a hard C, like in "cake." also Latin marks long vowels with a little dash above the letter, so she may have trouble remembering which vowels in English are long and which are short. I... hope that was what you meant? if you meant you wanted her to straight up speak Latin, I could also give you help with that if you're somewhat more specific about it.
