Grumio est cuquus

[lnghnds]

Gill and I have been joking around about me taking one of her classes for a while. I don't know when it became a more serious idea but somehow it has gotten to the point that tomorrow I'll be starting Latin 101. I'm kind of nervous! I haven't been in school for quite a while.
Gill only teaches three of the days a week so it took me as a bit

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[kimuchi]

Woo! I won't lie, it's been a shock to me how much work it is going to school again...although in my case arriving before 8am is part of the difficulty. ;-)

[lnghnds]

Oh man. 8am would. not. work. for me.

Part of what I'm looking forward to as well is the 5mi bike ride each way. It will be good to get me into regular exercise again (since I can't seem to stay uninjured long enough to play frisbee with any regularity).

[kimuchi]

I'm not sure 8am works for me, either, but it leaves a lot of daytime free. This being the season of budgetary fuckage that it is, my spot in the class isn't assured yet, anyway. :\

[jetspeaks]

I don't know how this relates to "dead" languages, but language classes often meet every day. This supposedly helps with the learning method because you're closer to "immersion" and practising every day. All the languages at Berkeley met 5 days a week, although it looks like Latin is only M-Th. :)

[lnghnds]

I took Italian in college and it only met three times a week. I think this was a Rutgers anomaly.

Speaking of Berkeley though, I don't know which class you looked at but Gill tells me that they have a special intensive Latin that covers more ground for the smart kids.

[jetspeaks]

I just looked at the schedule website for Latin 101. But I didn't look too closely at how it worked out - there were four "lecture" sections, each with four hours a week. It wouldn't surprise me if there were more. French was five days a week, which was considered intensive.

[kimuchi]

The "easy" languages and the higher-level classes of the hard languages often met only 3 days a week at Wisconsin.

[danjite]

Good luck.

*Shakes head*

Languages were always the killer for me. Even living in Thailand and studying 5 days a week.

Just so not something I would do recreationally.

But, well, good luck. Have fun!

[rednfiery]

if money isn't (much of) an issue, there's always rosetta stone. i always hear good things about their program.

[lnghnds]

You're saying I should use this in addition to taking the class at State? How crazy do I look? :)

[alibi_shop]

Good old Grumio! I'm actually getting nostalgia for my 8th grade Latin class. Or at least the bizarre, growly enunciation of the old Scot who taught it -- he sounded like he had studied oratory from Demosthenes but forgotten to take the marbles out.

Anyway, nil carborundum...