Comments on Profile Post by haastregt

Good luck, and have fun! :D
Perhaps you could do a contest like I did. :3

Good luck!!!! You'll do well, I'm sure. :)

I remember that contest! :P. I still stand by the point I made about your latin and greek.

Moreover, Latin is the only subject for me I am afraid for. I am going for cum laude, and I think that that won't be too difficult (for me), except that I have to get a 6.3 for Latin so that I keep my 7 as minimum... My grades this year were a 6.2 and 5.8 for Latin, so yeah...

Hey, good to know I'm not the only one who struggles with Latin. :P

If there's anything you'd like help with... I can do Latin. ;)

Can you do the exam for us? :P

the thing I have the most trouble with is figuring out what I have to do with a word, but maybe I should just practise a bit more. I think I have translated like 50 lines this whole year :3

Also Tom, for some reason, I think that would not be the smartest idea. Idk though, could just be me...

Woah, that's even less than I did, I think. :o
Isn't your subject Seneca, though?... I guess I'll look it up.
Yeah, it is... Cicero is better, I guess. Actually, perhaps Seneca was fun as well?

To be honest, I've got very little experience with Seneca, because the one time our class tried to tackle it, we got stuck completely, and the teacher ended up giving up and we got a very easy test, about only the first 20 lines or so. :P

I wouldn't be allowed to do the exam - besides, I haven't went through the curriculum. ;)
I might join you next year, though... is that your year, Tom? Or are you going to do exam in 2020? I love Ovidius, so I'm considering getting the training book for that, so I can read along if I'd like to. :3

Oh, and haas: what you have to do with a word? Translate it, usually. ;)

hahaha, that's indeed the best thing to do with a word :P.

It is a combination of Cicero and Seneca indeed, a bit more of Seneca than Cicero. I like Cicero better, because Seneca usually leaves a lot of words out of his texts because they are implied and just uses more difficult constructions in general.

In earlier tests I always just learned the full translation and latin text that we looked at prior to the test, and just remembered that way what the latin literally meant so I could make the test quite decent.

I have a good memory, but pulling this off with so much texts... not going to happen lol, so maybe I should just practise a bit :P

Oh, wow. :P Hm, yeah... then practice might be good. ;) Like I tell everyone struggling with Latin: a good order is very important. Vergeet niet om eerst de hele zin te 'lezen' om een idee te krijgen van de opbouw, dan de persoonsvorm te zoeken en vervolgens de onderwerpen plus eventuele lijdend voorwerpen.
De bepalingen en bijwoorden kunnen wachten. ;)

Oh, and of course there's not always an explicit subject: it might also be hidden in the main verb. But I suppose you must be used to that by now. :P

For some reason I missed those last two comments, but those are some good tips! :D (Sorry for bumping a kinda old status :3)