Event Review: 12/7 Back To Verbs: etc...

Centurion: What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?
Brian: It says, "Romans go home. "
Centurion: No it doesn't ! What's the latin for "Roman"? Come on, come on !
Brian: Er, "Romanus" !
Centurion: Vocative plural of "Romanus" is?
Brian: Er, er, "Romani" !
Centurion: [Writes "Romani" over Brian's graffiti] "Eunt"? What is "eunt"? Conjugate the verb, "to go" !
Brian: Er, "Ire". Er, "eo", "is", "it", "imus", "itis", "eunt".
Centurion: So, "eunt" is...?
Brian: Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
Centurion: But, "Romans, go home" is an order. So you must use...?
[He twists Brian's ear]
Brian: Aaagh ! The imperative !
Centurion: Which is...?
Brian: Aaaagh ! Er, er, "i" !
Centurion: How many Romans?
Brian: Aaaaagh ! Plural, plural, er, "ite" !
Centurion: [Writes "ite"] "Domus"? Nominative? "Go home" is motion towards, isn't it?
Brian: Dative !
[the Centurion holds a sword to his throat]
Brian: Aaagh ! Not the dative, not the dative ! Er, er, accusative, "Domum" !
Centurion: But "Domus" takes the locative, which is...?
Brian: Er, "Domum" !
Centurion: [Writes "Domum"] Understand? Now, write it out a hundred times.
Brian: Yes sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
Centurion: Hail Caesar ! And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.

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Yup, we need to keep doing sentences, both English-Latin and Latin-English. Keep up on your vocabulary and remember those noun and verb paradigms!

We didn't really make it into the imperfect tense so we will do that next time. Eduardus (Ave Eduarde!) helped out immensely with our new students; hopefully he will join us regularly. Eduardus had a great idea; that we incorporate spoken Latin into our meetups. I totally agree as it will add another dimension to our Latin learning and also be fun. A good way to begin to practice spoken Latin is to use the phrases in Traupman's Conversational Latin. So we will add a few phrases each time until, well, until we're speaking only Latin!

Regula Peroratio
As always we welcome new Latin learners at any time. The atmosphere is friendly and informal, and there is plenty of opportunity to answer questions and go back over old material that may need review. We will try to keep to a somewhat regular schedule with Wheelock (one chapter every 2 weeks or so), but I'm willing to change the pace and add more materials at any time.

Again, if I missed anything important here or you have other comments or questions about this meetup, please post them.

Thanks,
Nik