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Show HN: Learn Latin through interactively reading the Classics

21 points by omalleyt 5y ago

omalleyt 5y ago
Hi all! Creator here, I made this site to help on my journey as I learn Latin. Go to any text and click on a word, and you'll see all of the possible definitions and inflections for that word. This has been helpful to me, as I struggle to keep track of all the noun case and verb tense rules in Latin. I hope others find this helpful, please let me know if you have any ideas that you think could make this even more useful!
- Normille 5y ago
  Latin is one of those languages I'd like to know but, unfortunately, not enough to invest the time in learning it. It was compulsory for my first two years in secondary school. But, at that age, pretty much everyone dropped it at the end of those two years. Anyway, one suggestion re the site would be to make the info popups able to be triggered on rolling over a word. All that individual clicking is a bit clunky.
dinkleberg 5y ago
This looks handy, thanks for creating and sharing it.
- omalleyt 5y ago
  Thank you!
HDMI_Cable 5y ago
Having learned Latin, this seems really useful, but only in conjunction with other resources; I would have loved to have this when I was learning. It would be cool though if different phrases/clauses are shown, as being able to divide long Latin sentences into their principal phrases really helps with learning. Recommendations for good resources along with this: - Wheelock's Latin: A grammar book. It's impossible to fully understand Latin without knowing the grammar, and this book is the best at doing that. - Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: A great book for learning how to read without translating. I would personally recommend reading the first ~15 chapters along with Wheelock, then skipping to the second book, at chapter ~40. - https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ An amazing collection of resources and texts, most of them a bit more advanced than OP's. https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/101 https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/101 is also really useful for clearing lacunae for grammar.
Abernathy 5y ago
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21 points by omalleyt 5y ago

Hi all! Creator here, I made this site to help on my journey as I learn Latin. Go to any text and click on a word, and you'll see all of the possible definitions and inflections for that word. This has been helpful to me, as I struggle to keep track of all the noun case and verb tense rules in Latin. I hope others find this helpful, please let me know if you have any ideas that you think could make this even more useful!

Normille 5y ago
Latin is one of those languages I'd like to know but, unfortunately, not enough to invest the time in learning it. It was compulsory for my first two years in secondary school. But, at that age, pretty much everyone dropped it at the end of those two years. Anyway, one suggestion re the site would be to make the info popups able to be triggered on rolling over a word. All that individual clicking is a bit clunky.

dinkleberg 5y ago

This looks handy, thanks for creating and sharing it.

omalleyt 5y ago
Thank you!

HDMI_Cable 5y ago

Having learned Latin, this seems really useful, but only in conjunction with other resources; I would have loved to have this when I was learning. It would be cool though if different phrases/clauses are shown, as being able to divide long Latin sentences into their principal phrases really helps with learning. Recommendations for good resources along with this: - Wheelock's Latin: A grammar book. It's impossible to fully understand Latin without knowing the grammar, and this book is the best at doing that. - Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: A great book for learning how to read without translating. I would personally recommend reading the first ~15 chapters along with Wheelock, then skipping to the second book, at chapter ~40. - https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ An amazing collection of resources and texts, most of them a bit more advanced than OP's. https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/101 https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/101 is also really useful for clearing lacunae for grammar.

Abernathy 5y ago

Thank you for sharing. https://www.myccpay.run/ https://www.myccpay.run/