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Reading Latin with Luke, Eighteen Roman Letters 1 - Cicero, Ad Familiares 14.1 (Patreon)
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Hi everyone! Tomorrow I will make this video public, but I wanted to share it with you now if you'd like to see it right away.
Welcome to Reading Latin with Luke, in which I read to you in Latin, and ask you questions about the reading, much as a teacher in a classroom. This video will help train your listening and reading comprehension, as well as your speaking proficiency.
Let's read Eighteen Roman Letters, edited by Theodore Horn in 1937, which contains selected letters by Cicero, Seneca, Pliny, and others. These letters were selected by Horn to elucidate to the reader important historical events, characters, and the lives of the Ancient Romans.
How you might use this video lesson:
1. Click or tap on the part of the reading in the timeline (labeled pars i, pars ii, pars iii, etc.) and listen to the recitation without looking at the text. Before I start asking questions about the reading, go back to the beginning of that part of the reading, and listen once again without seeing the text.
2. Listen to that part of the reading a third time, but now do so while reading along with the text.
3. Pause the video and recite the text aloud on your own.
4. Listen to my questions, and attempt to answer them aloud in Latin by finding the answer in the text. (You may pause the video if you need more time to answer.)
You may add or skip steps as is appropriate for your level. The reason not to look at the text, but only listen two times in a row, is to help your brain isolate key words. For people not used to hearing Latin spoken to them without immediate reference to the written word, this will be challenging! But that's the idea: it challenges your brain to understand exclusively through auditory input. Then, when you hear the same part of the text a second time, you'll get much more. It'll surprise you! By the end of the video, you'll understand what you're hearing far better than when you started.
No matter what your current level in Latin, this will likely present some challenge: not only do you have to get used to receiving auditory-only input (which is rare for anyone who works with an ancient language), but you will have to get used to the characters and events, my manner of reading, and also the Classical Latin Pronunciation if you are unfamiliar with it.
The result of this exercise will be much improved reading comprehension in Latin that you can utilize with any text you encounter. You may even learn to speak a little too!
