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Originally Posted by eriol
Btw I heard that studying Latin is really exhausting. What do you do to improve you grammar? reading the latin bible? I tried studying latin independently through wikipedia, but all I got is frustation x-x.
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Grammar isn't so much the issue at times as it is vocabulary. Wikipedia/Wikibooks don't do--or didn't a few months ago--a good job of teaching certain things, in my opinion: they seem to be written for those who have already studied a romance language before.
Latin grammar has always made sense to me; it's always been so logical. The issue in studying it comes in certain portions of the language's grammar: things like the Latin subjunctive take a bit of work to get learned. (There's a good deal more to the subjunctive in Latin than in English.)
If you need something to read and want to learn Latin, Wheelock's Latin is an excellent book for that sort of thing. For some, the language in it is a bit confusing, so a simpler book might be better. (Any good book should have macrons (long marks, in other words) for pronunciation's sake.)
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