Southerners have it easier with Latin

We had our first day of Latin today. After investigating Latin programs to death we are using Minimus Latin (the kid's version of the Cambridge Series I used in Middle School). I am really happy with it: it puts a focus on Latin vocabulary as it influences English; it is based on a historical family. For example, the birthday party invitation in Chapter 1 is an actual invitation found at the dig site AND it shows a picture of the actual invitation.

I am hoping, when I get better, we can go to England and visit the dig site.

At first Ben was a little confused... but then he started catching on and enjoyed it. We are supplementing it with additional grammar instruction so we studied declining the verb SUM (to be) in the present tense...

sum (I am) summus (we are)

es (you are) estis (you pl. are)

est (he/she/it is) sunt (they are)

You plural is usually confusing to students. Not in the south... here we have a "you plural" -- y'all. So for us estis = y'all are. Yee haw.

4 comments:

GBK Gwyneth said...: My husband is from Rhode Island and says that people there said "yous guys".

Because of Minimus, we did take a day trip to go to Vindolanda and the Roman Army Museum (and Alnwick Castle where a couple of Harry Potter movies were filmed) while spending a week in Edinburgh. We even bought Minimus Secundus there...; August 25, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Katya said...: Oh! How was it! Did you see their house?? Do you have pictures?; August 25, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Tina in CT said...: I had 4 years of Latin in HS.; August 25, 2008 at 2:01 PM
GBK Gwyneth said...: I've deleted most of the ones in my flick album due to the 200 photo limit.

Here is one (there are others in the same set):

http://flickr.com/photos/gwynethob/547548973/in/set-72157600355392471/; August 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM