Latin flash cards: started!

[resident_geek]

Just a quick note to celebrate that I have, in fact, gotten something done this week: I sat down with Rebecca and went through Wheelock's vocab, focusing on both inflection memory and definitional nuance. (I can't believe I had forgotten the third principle part of esse. Nevermind, on the flashcard it goes.) Anyhow, we got through seven full

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[albionschild]

Excellent start!

[ivmeer]

Fui?

Oh, Wheelock. Congrats on taking Latin back up again though! :D Six or seven chapters is quite an accomplishment for one day. You're a braver man than I. I'm sticking with le French. C'est plus facile que la langue latine.

[resident_geek]

La langue francais est merde. :P Mostly from all the homophones. It's enough to drive you insane. That, and the completely different pronunciations using the exact same letters as other Romance languages.

Le sigh. Thanks for the confidence!

[sherarara]

La langue fFrançais est merde.

[brcmapgirl]

From the dark recesses of my mind:
sum, esse, fui, --

aww. come on! How can you forget "PHOOEY"?

Perhaps it's because I learned Latin when I was 12, but I still think it's funny. tee hee. (And I still think fart jokes are funny too!)

:-)