You can learn Latin on your own if you approach this issue correctly. All you need is a set of the right textbooks, doing the exercises, and practicing Latin writing. Most likely, your relatives and friends will not be able to speak to you in Latin, but practice spoken language will help you improve your knowledge of Latin in general. If you try, you can speak Latin as well as the Pope, and in no time at all.
Steps
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Pick up a book for beginners large quantity exercises and answers. Answers are important because there is no one to check you.
- Wheelock's Latin is a widely known answer book. This is perhaps the best choice for self-study. The book presents great amount exercises, as well as online learning groups.
- There are several public books with answers, for example:
- Choosing the right dictionary is important for what you will be reading. If you are interested in Classical Latin, use Elementary Latin Dictionary or Oxford Latin Dictionary if you can buy it. If you are interested in late Latin, medieval, renaissance and neo-Latin, you are better off using the Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary, although it is expensive. Otherwise, you will have to use Cassell, which is not very useful and not small in size. Unfortunately, choosing the right and inexpensive dictionary will not be easy.If you understand French, then the dictionary Grand Gaffiot would be a good choice.
- While you are still learning from a textbook, you will have to memorize a lot: declensions, conjugations, vocabulary. There is no shortcut. In this case, your morale is very important.
- Latin is a language with a poor vocabulary, in other words, one word can have several meanings. This also means that there are many idioms in Latin that you will also have to memorize. You will get to the point where you understand every word, but the meaning of the sentence as a whole will not be clear to you. This is because you think about the meaning of each word individually. For example, the expression hominem e medio tollere means "to kill a person", but if you do not know this phrase, then it literally translates to "remove a person from the center."
- Avoid poetry while you're still learning prose. You would not recommend reading Shakespeare to someone who is learning English without being able to read a newspaper yet. The same applies to the Latin language.
- Learn words. Carry a list of words or flashcards with you to look up in the bus, restroom, or anywhere else.
- Write in Latin. Even if you want to learn how to read, don't skip the English-to-Latin translation exercise.
- Do not hurry. One session every few days is enough. If you are in a hurry, you will not have time to remember the information you need. On the other hand, don't hesitate. Try to exercise at least once a week.
- If your answers don't match those of the tutorial, chances are you're missing something. Get back to work and reread.
How I got the idea to take up Latin
A few years ago I decided to re-read " Dead Souls". Remember the footman Petrushka - Chichikov's servant from the famous Gogol poem? How he loved to read everything indiscriminately. The man was amazed at the great mystery: how is it that words suddenly come from letters? Great is the power of Gogol's word! I recently thought about this ridiculous description, and for some reason I had a very serious desire to learn languages. I decided that first I needed to learn Latin - the basis of several modern European languages.
And with what, actually, to begin? And how to learn a language: according to the available developed methods or according to your own understanding?
It would be nice to learn the language, as they say, "with mother's milk." For example, how did it happen with the 16th-century philosopher Montaigne, who in his childhood communicated only with a Latin teacher and did not hear anything around him except Latin, which became his native language. However, all this was unattainable for me, so there was only one option left - to “bite into the granite” of Latin on my own.
How did I start learning Latin?
I decided to come up with my own, albeit crude and clumsy, but my own methodology, and developed directly in the course of moving forward in learning the language.
And I didn’t think of anything smarter than going to bookstores and buying the thickest translation dictionary from Latin into Russian.
I leafed through the dictionary for a long time and realized that it should not be approached mechanically. I began to consider words as entertaining pictures, puzzles or crossword puzzles. I tried to notice the similarities and differences, counted the number of letters, almost tried the word with a tooth. A week later, I began to understand how words are formed and what parts of speech they are made up of, and how a verb differs from a noun, a noun from an adjective, an adjective from an adverb, etc.
In the preface to any good thick dictionary there is an introductory chapter that talks about the rules of reading and pronunciation.
How I chose the textbook and additional literature
After playing with the dictionary for a week and getting the first idea of Latin, I download world wide web favorite textbook (tutorial). I also download several adapted books for reading (for example, 
"Notes on the Gallic War" by Caesar). I always select a textbook with keys and correct answers to language tasks.
Slowly, I get acquainted with each lesson of the textbook and diligently perform all the exercises. I write down the last in the largest notebook that I could find in the store. I divide the sheets of the notebook in half with a vertical line. On the left side I complete tasks, on the right side - corrections for my mistakes and incorrect answers. I write down, so to speak, the history of my "nonsense". For every mistake made on the left side of the notebook, I come up with a punishment for myself and draw a corresponding picture on the right side of the sheet - a blow with a stick, rods, a fist, a haircut, shaving off my mustache, etc. I punish myself not only in the picture, but also mentally. Then I graciously forgive myself. At the same time, mistakes made are very easy to remember, which will not be repeated in the future.
I keep the notebook in such a way that there is a lot of free space both between the lines and on the right side of the sheet. I use free spaces to write the correct sentences and words next to the mistakes. I paint unmistakable phrases and words up to 10 times until I remember.
I enjoy learning Latin
After diligently completing the course of the Latin textbook, I do the following. I read ancient Roman prose, for example, Julius Caesar's "Notes on the Gallic War" or the speeches of Mark Tullius Cicero.
When reading the same "Notes" of Caesar for the first time, I do not look into the dictionary, but try to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words in accordance with the context. I write the words that I understand in a notebook. I approach each word as having several meanings, as one of a whole "bundle", "family" of related words. I write this “bundle” in a notebook, using fantasy and looking at the same time in the dictionary. And for better memorization of words, I write them down ballpoint pens different colors.
How do I learn words
I start a separate notebook for the dictionary, which I develop carefully and diligently. What for? To make it easier to remember words. I divide the notebook page into three vertical parts. The left column is used to write a Latin word. The middle one is needed to write out all related words, that is, “bundles”. And I give the right column for drawings on the topic of the written word. Here, using my imagination, I imagine some unusual situations or scenes associated with a certain word. Having imagined such a situation, I clothe it in the form of a comic drawing. In the right column, in addition to the picture, I also write down the word association. For example, I accompany the word Latina (Latin) in the right column with the similar-sounding word "platinum", comparing the Latin language with the most precious metal; and to incunabulis (cradle) I attribute Russian word"incubator" - a kind of cradle for chickens. Of course, this takes a lot of time, but the right word will be remembered for a lifetime.
I mentioned above that I write words with different colored pens. I will give a simple example: I write the adjective "black" in black. Red, blue, etc. - in the corresponding color.
What color to write, for example, the word brutus (heavy)? For some reason it made me associate with brown. What about the word acutus (sharp)? In my imagination, it turned bright red. Color associations are individual for each person. It was much more difficult when choosing verbs. For example, the verb edo (to eat) was written in green pen, imagining a vegetarian eating dill or parsley. I experienced the biggest difficulty in choosing a color with abstract words, for example, with the verbs decidere (decide) and aestimare (count). In this situation, without choosing a color, I limited myself to the right column, drawing a playful drawing in it.
After six months of compiling the dictionary, I already had a notebook with two thousand words and “connections” drawn up using the method described above. The notebook helped me master the necessary vocabulary.
How I came to audio courses
For three months I was engaged in oral speech according to the textbook. But then got into a mess, by accident 
meeting with a man who has mastered Latin well. He was a general practitioner, to whom I came as a patient. When the therapist wrote out the prescription, I, wanting to show off my knowledge of Latin, began to read the prescription. In response, I received a comment about poor pronunciation and advice to listen to audio materials. It turned out that the doctor is a great lover of Latin.
I realized the mistake, downloaded some educational audio materials and started listening to them every day. I felt that things were not going very well. Then I cut the audio recordings using computer software into separate sentences, then grouped the five repetitions of each sentence, and finally glued them back into a coherent audio recording. The result was an audio course with a large number of repetitions, which was what I needed.
It's been about two years since I started learning Latin on my own. It seems to me that I have achieved some success: I understand oral speech about half; Latin unadapted texts can be understood by seventy percent, the rest I translate with a dictionary. My pronunciation has improved, but not as much as I would like. That's why I'm still working on it. I think that learning a language is a long process, for years to come.
For those wishing to learn Latin, I would like to give some advice:
- I am not talking about diligence, perseverance and a great desire to learn Latin, just as I am not talking about the requirement of daily language lessons. It is clear to every person that these conditions are the most important;
- Many experts advise every day to engage in various forms of studying Latin - and lessons from a textbook, and reading fiction or other books, and listening to an audio course on a player or smartphone, and so on. I believe that this is not entirely correct. I prefer classes in a certain sequence according to the planned schedule - for example, study for two months only with a textbook, then devote the same amount of time to reading books, then listen to materials for understanding purposes for three months oral speech and development of pronunciation;
- Cramming is not worth doing, it will not work anyway. It may be slow but necessary to delve deeply into the educational material in order to understand, compare and present figuratively individual words and expressions;
- Do not only the tasks of the textbook, but come up with your own exercises. To do this, use all your imagination. For example, if you are moving around the city or countryside, then I advise you to translate into Latin objects that come across along the way - shop signs, signs on doors, roadside banners, names of plants and animals, and the like;
- Still, some important auxiliary phrases that are not easy to master are not a sin to memorize. For example, Ab initio (from the beginning), Absque omni exceptione (without any doubt), and other similar phrases;
- Don't get discouraged when things don't go your way. Remember that you are bound to succeed! Viam supervadet vadens ("The one who walks will master the road").
Happy learning!!!
Latin is the key to high intelligence!
Latin is the gateway to modern languages!
Do you want to know:
How to learn Latin from scratch?
- How to learn Latin without leaving home?
- How to learn Latin very quickly?
- How to learn Latin on your own?
- How can Latin help in life and what are the advantages for people who know Latin?
Or maybe you want to speak, sing, read in Latin in 30 days?
Or maybe you want to know how to learn Latin without tutors and the cost of paid courses?
If your answer to these questions is yes, then Ivan Poloneichik's video course "Quick Entry into Latin" or how to learn Latin quickly and independently" is designed just for you.
After studying this video course, in 30 days you will be able to read, speak and even sing in Latin!
Here you can watch the introductory part from the video course by Ivan Poloneichik "Quick entry into Latin" or how to learn Latin quickly and independently":
Today, Latin is considered a "dead" language. However, people who know Latin have many advantages over those who have never studied it.
In the process of writing dictionaries for this course, the author noted those Latin words that are familiar to him to one degree or another, which are somewhat similar to the words of English, German, Italian and other languages. As a result, it turned out that out of 500 words of the course, they marked 80%!
What does it mean? Naturally, the study of Latin words will greatly facilitate the memorization of words modern languages.
From the point of view of grammar, Latin is simple, and at the same time it is not the grammar of Russian or Ukrainian. The grammar of Latin is clear and logical, and to one degree or another it has influenced the formation of the grammar of modern languages.
Here is what you get by learning Latin:
Even a weak knowledge of Latin will help you significantly accelerate the process of mastering absolutely all modern European languages.
You can learn Latin easily and quickly, which will remove all psychological barriers and fear in front of other languages, will remove the setting "I have no talent for languages".
Latin is a very beautiful and harmonious language. From the point of view of psycholinguistics, it has a positive effect on a person.
The child who began to study foreign languages from Latin, achieves success much faster in the same English, German, etc. It is not for nothing that many Russian gymnasiums study Latin.
Latin will dramatically increase your competitiveness, as you will be able to use expressions from Latin in lectures, reports, articles, theses, term papers, abstracts, etc.
If you learn to use the Latin of everyday speech, then you will become a more interesting conversationalist.
Knowledge of Latin indicates a high intellectual and cultural level of a person.
Latin formed the basis of the terminology of medicine, chemistry, biology, jurisprudence, pharmacology. Knowledge of Latin can take you to a new level in these disciplines. Knowledge of Latin is also useful to psychologists, physicists, historians, linguists, literary critics.
A video course "Quick entry into Latin"- a very powerful and really working tool for learning Latin. You can verify this already through a short time.
The "Fast Entry into Latin" course consists of 25 video lessons and teaching materials to study Latin. The content of all classes is presented in a separate file, which you will always have at hand using the course menu.
In the video course of Ivan Poloneychik
“A quick entry into Latin or how to learn Latin quickly and independently” includes the following sections:
Dictionary "Mini-lex" in text and audio versions:
Any language is made up of words. Therefore, you need to start entering the language with them. Therefore, the author has prepared for you a "mini-lex" dictionary of about five hundred words.
This is enough to get into your arsenal such a necessary and sufficient vocabulary with which you can read simple texts, as well as appreciate the beauty of Latin and begin to feel and understand the connection of Latin with European languages.
The "mini-lex" dictionary is an excellent base both for further advancement in Latin and for gaining a sense of confidence that memorizing words is not as difficult as it seems.
You will memorize words from Latin easily, because many words of the modern Russian language come from Latin.
This dictionary consists of text and audio files, and audio files are recorded with background music, which will greatly facilitate your memorization.
When creating audio files, a recording method is used that is used only in this product.
In addition, you are also offered verification options for files, which will allow you to fix the words in memory very well.
Dictionary "Mini-phrases" in text and audio versions:
Kit vocabulary- a necessary thing, but the living element of the Latin language is represented by whole phrases and expressions.
most likely you will not conduct dialogues in Latin (although who knows ...), but you can show off your high cultural level, especially with the help of the phrases that are given in the course.
This is exactly what is called "winged Latin sayings."
The video course "Fast Entry into Latin" contains 100 phrases. And believe me, this is quite enough to get a taste of Latin, as well as to start using Latin phrases both in work and study, and just in communication.
The dictionary of Latin phrases consists of text and audio files. Audio files are recorded with background music, which will greatly facilitate your memorization.
When creating audio files, a recording method was used, which is used only in this product and is already a corporate style.
A mini-grammar containing the basic rules.
Video lectures, very short, a few minutes each, text material, simple but very useful tasks and keys to them.
This section was created with the associate professor of the Minsk University, Dmitry Gomon.
Video lecture " Best Tricks language acquisition".
Generally speaking, all the lessons of each video part of the course consists of a lecture on grammar, a story about " homework”(you still study at home) and gradual acquaintance with advanced methods of mastering languages.
Little by little you will get up to speed and receive recommendations of an instructive sense.
If someone wants more details - you are welcome, the full version is in the course "English, German and other languages according to the Forsage system".
In the "Quick Entry" start and acquaintance, and in full version- a powerful start for a decent distance.
A set of texts for quick reading.
Short texts, which are given in the course in text and audio versions, are designed to memorize and develop confident reading skills in the target language.
The effectiveness of learning by heart was proved by the great polyglot Heinrich Schliemann. Generally speaking, the cornerstones of his system of mastering languages were carefully listening to the sound of the language and memorizing texts.
High-speed reading aloud of texts in Latin develops the same ease of reading as in Russian, which is very important in psychological terms. After all, one cannot talk about language proficiency and at the same time read slowly and strainedly.
Magic alphabet game.
The author learned about this alphabet a very long time ago from his teacher - teacher French. The results were simply stunning.
Now, in her group, the concept of “underachieving student” has disappeared.
This game is an essential part of the process of mastering languages, and in particular Latin.
Songs, hymns and prayers in Latin.
The author puts the singing of songs in terms of efficiency and necessity in second place among all methods and techniques.
First, the decision psychological problems. Enough has been said about this in the course for a serious start.
Where is the rhythm and soul of the language most pronounced? In songs. And when you sing songs in Latin, you immerse yourself in the elements of the language to the maximum.
Just listening to the songs is not enough. It is important to sing them, and not just to sit at the same time, but also to feel the song.
There was such an experiment. Several people sang songs for two hours.
At first, things were slow, the people were a little shy, but then they still sang as they should. Then emancipation came, the language suddenly became not so alien and scary.
And this began to bear fruit, all participants in the experiment noted that mastering the language went just “like clockwork”.
You will receive nine songs, hymns and prayers in Latin, and in such a format that you can not only listen and read, but master the language.
In addition to the course video itself
"Quick entry to Latin" or how to quickly learn Latin"
You will receive the following bonuses:
"Audio book in Latin"
Audio book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" with text accompaniment (The first three chapters).
The first three chapters are about three hours of audio recording.
This is quite enough to perform parallel reading and master the rules of reading in Latin well.
"Prayers, songs and hymns"
Prayers, songs and hymns in Latin are presented in audio and text versions.
And three prayers are made in the audio version with the simultaneous display of the text in the video version.
The word "karaoke" is somehow embarrassing to apply to prayers, but in fact that's what it is.
For learning Latin, this is a very useful thing.
"Latinisms in Russian"
Latin words formed the basis of the vocabulary of almost all modern European languages, including Russian.
This article lists 150 Russian words and shows what Latin words they are derived from.
In fact, there are a lot of such words. And as you study Latin, you will be able to independently supplement this list.
"Latin expressive expressions"
“Shyort, shyort, shyort ... Krokes Kusto berschlag muzzle!”.
Remember? This is one of the expressive expressions.
Expression is a Latin word (expressio). From Latin it is translated as expressio, that is, expressiveness, the power of expressing feelings, experiences.
In other words, wishes, oaths, curses, threats, etc.
Agree that the use of expressive expressions is much more interesting than swearing, and the shades are much brighter.
In addition, these expressions are very easy to remember.
"Latin prefixes and their meaning"
The basis modern word"multimedia" - Latin.
But now pay attention to the prefix "multi", which means "plurality".
"Super", "ultra", "post" - you, of course, know these prefixes.
But there are actually many more.
And all of them have found application - in everyday speech, in professional slang.
Having learned them, you will diversify your vocabulary, and you will better understand the meaning of many terms, and simply improve your understanding of Latin.
"Five Classical Latin Texts"
Studies with the works of Cicero, Caesar and other classics of ancient Roman literature are very useful.
In addition, they will allow you to enjoy the beauty of the Latin language and not only...
They can be usefully applied both for the practice of translation and for spontaneous reading.
"A set of phrases in Latin"
It is unlikely that you will conduct dialogues in Latin (although who knows ...), but you can show off your high cultural level, especially with the help of the phrases that are given in the course.
This is basically what is commonly called "winged Latin sayings."
Phrase dictionary consists of text and audio files.
Audio files are recorded with background music, which will greatly facilitate your memorization.
You are also offered verification versions of files, which will allow you to fix the material in memory very well.
File Exam Order of great importance does not have.
"Characters of Roman Mythology"
Mastering a language involves, among other things, familiarity with the elements of culture, in this case, the culture of Ancient Rome.
It is very informative and instructive.
"Short Latin Sayings"
Knowledge of Latin sayings has always been considered a necessary attribute of an intellectual.
But don't jump right in with a big reference book, start with short sayings. This small dictionary contains 73 Latin short sayings.
First, you have to start somewhere.
Secondly, having learned these expressions, you will have a feeling of completeness of the situation, that is, a gestalt will be completed, which, by the way, usually serves as an excellent impetus to continue studying.
Thirdly, a dictionary with short Latin sayings learns very quickly.
Fourth, you can immediately apply these expressions.
Multum, non multa (much, but not much).
"The most common Latin abbreviations"
Everyone knows one of them for sure - PS.
True, on the Internet, a stupid fashion has gone instead of "PS" to put "PS", that is, the same keys, but in the Russian layout.
It seems to me that, say, Philipp Philippovich Preobrazhensky or Dr. Bormental would not have done that.
It is rather the style of Sharikov and Shvonder.
You can use abbreviations not only in correspondence, but also when taking notes, writing coursework, diploma and scientific works, which, by the way, indirectly indicates a high intellectual level author and implies (in fact, flattering!) the same for the reader.
"Texts for quick reading in Latin."
Short texts in Latin, which are given in the course in text and audio versions, are intended for:
1. Learning by heart.
2. Development of confident reading skills in Latin.
High-speed reading aloud of texts in Latin develops the same ease of reading as in Russian, which is very important, primarily in psychological terms.
After all, one cannot talk about language proficiency and at the same time read slowly and strainedly.
The course contains several texts for speed reading.
In principle, you can choose your own texts in the future.
By ordering a video course "Fast entry into Latin"
You are guaranteed to receive:
- Dictionary mini-lex in text and audio versions for 500 words, quite sufficient to enter the language.
- Dictionary "mini-phrases" in text and audio versions for 100 Latin phrases.
- A mini-gram set is a mini-grammar containing the basic rules.
- A set of 13 short texts in audio and text formats for the exercise "speed reading" and "Schliemann memorization".
- 9 songs, hymns and prayers in audio and text format.
- 3 chapters of the book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in Latin in text and audio version.
- A game for developing the speed of entering the language.
- 25 video lessons covering language learning methods and basic grammar rules.
- Tasks for self-study.
Good afternoon! Today we will get acquainted with the Latin language, find out why a doctor needs it in any country, and also try to learn some important Latin terms.
So, Latin. To be honest, I really enjoyed teaching him for a number of reasons:
- In class on this subject, it felt like I was touching some secret ancient knowledge. This is understandable, because we are talking about the language spoken by the great doctors of antiquity;
- You will study in Latin. So good knowledge Latin will make memorizing anatomy relatively easy for you;
- Latin terms (especially medical ones) sound very, very cool;
- By the way, the term used in Latin during a conversation or report eloquently indicates your erudition. It may not be entirely true, but that's the impression I've always had.
What is Latin for? Doctors need it so that doctors who speak different languages have always been able to understand each other. Of course, anatomy cannot be imagined without Latin. Biologists, chemists and pharmacists need it because of the use of a single terminology, which greatly facilitates the classification medicines, animal species, etc.
Clinical terminology is also built in Latin. For example, if the name of a drug ends with "in", we can assume with a high degree of probability that we are talking about an antibiotic - amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin. If the name of the disease has the suffix "oma", then they certainly talk about a tumor - hemengioma, sarcoma, lipoma. If the suffix "itis" is present, this is inflammation. For example, stomatitis, bronchitis, colitis.
The study of Latin for physicians has its own specifics. At the end of the course of this subject at the medical university, you are unlikely to be able to talk in Latin with your friend on the phone. You also most likely will not be able to easily pronounce in the new language you have learned in your arsenal phrases like "I may be a fan of the Marvel comics universe, but the director Zack Snyder is so good that I loved the Superman and Batman films more than anyone else." All you need from this subject is to be able to understand and name from memory anatomical terms, diagnoses of diseases, as well as be able to write prescriptions in Latin.
From my own experience I will say - Latin terms memorized in advance, before starting to study at medical university, provide several advantages:
- Firstly, you get used to the subject much faster and new topics are much easier for you.
- Secondly, you will quickly win a good attitude of the teacher towards you. Your Latin teacher will definitely consider you a capable student if you answer best in the first couple.
- And thirdly, having a good vocabulary, you will be able to compensate to some extent for your lag in grammar if this suddenly happens. That's exactly what happened to me - in terms of vocabulary, I was very good, but grammar was given very hard. But I got on the list of contenders for the coveted "machine gun" precisely because of the vocabulary - at least that's what the teacher told me.
When I created this selection of Latin words, I focused primarily on the very beginning of the first semester of the first year. Therefore, if you have already entered for sure, but wanted to know how to prepare for a medical university in advance, this article is for you. After all, it is best in such a situation to begin your preparation with Latin.
In fact, a Latin lesson
Let's try to remember a few simple words with pronunciation. I’ll make a reservation right away that in our first selection I will not indicate the gender, the variation in the spelling of the word in the genitive case or in plural, as is customary in dictionaries.
For our first Latin lesson, I propose to memorize two simple rules, which we will use right now:
- In Latin, the last syllable is NEVER stressed;
- The sound of the letter "L" is always softened. The word "clavicula" (collarbone) will never sound "clavicula". We will read it as "clavicula". Just like "scapula" (scapula) - it will sound like this: "scapule".
So, we begin to learn Latin for doctors. Our lexical minimum for this lesson:
- Caput(kaput) - head;
- Cranium(cranium) - skull. A fairly common word. There is even the science of craniology, which studies the structure of the human skull in a normal way;
- Basis cranii(basis of the crane) - the base of the skull;
- Fornix cranii(forniks krani) - the vault of the skull, that is, the lid of the skull;
- Maxilla(maxilla) - upper jaw. Do not forget our second rule and read as "maxil";
- Mandibula(mandible) - lower jaw. The correct sound will be "mandible";
I used a classic Da Vinci illustration to show you what I was talking about. With a red dotted line, I marked the border between the cranial vault (fornix cranii) and its base (basis cranii). The rounded part on top is the vault. Below is the base.
I highlighted the upper jaw (maxilla) in blue, and the lower jaw (mandibula) in green.
- Cervix(cervix) - neck;
- vertebra(vertebra) - vertebra;
- columna vertebralis(columna vertebralis) - the spinal column. It is he who consists of the vertebrae;
- Corpus vertebrae(corpus vertebre) - the body of the vertebra. It is very easy to memorize Latin on associations - often, especially in sports, the human body is called the "body". Boxers say so: “body punch”;
- arcus vertebrae(arcus vertebre) - the arch of the vertebra. It is also not without reason that an architectural figure in the form of an arc is called an “arch”;
This is what the spinal column looks like:
Next block of words:
- Thorax(thorax) - chest. The same term is called the chest - the anatomical formation, inside which the chest cavity is located.
- Cavum thoracis(kavum thoracis) - chest cavity. It is limited to the sternum, ribs and vertebrae, that is, the chest.
- Sternum(sternum) - sternum. One of the coolest bones to study. There are only a few elements to remember, the main one is ...
- Corpus sterni(case stern) - the body of the sternum. I think you already know the translation of this word, by analogy with the vertebral body;
- Costa(kosta) - rib;
- caput costae(kaput coste) - the head of the rib. Yes, at first I myself thought that the human head and the head of any anatomical formation have different names turns out not
- corpus costae(case coste) - the body of the rib. I think you already remember well what a corpus is;
In this illustration you can see the chest, front view. The sternum is a long vertical bone located in front. The body of the sternum is even signed here, only on English language- body of sternum. By the way, Latin and English have a large number of similar words.
And the last block of Latin words for today.
- Сingulum membri superioris(Tsingulum membri superioris) - the belt of the upper limb. The word superior, like its opposite, inferior, will come up very often throughout the anatomy.
- Superior(superior) - top. simple association. "Super" - above all others;
- Inferior(inferior) - lower. It's also easy to remember. "Inferno" is another name for hell. "Infernal" - infernal, diabolical. The stereotypical hell is always at the bottom;
- Scapula(scapule) is a word already parsed today. As you remember, this translates as "blade";
- Clavicula(klavikulya) - clavicle. We also took it apart. By the way, for me in anatomy it was very surprising that the girdle of the upper limbs consists of only two bones - the scapula and the collarbone. I thought it was full of bones.
I highlighted the clavicle in red, and the shoulder blade in green.
Here is such a list. I would recommend that you learn it in parts. Write each term several times, say it out loud, and then tell a few of the learned terms with Russian translation to your household or a friend on the phone (I periodically told the cat).
This concludes our first (hopefully not the last) medical Latin lesson. If you study a few expressions a week before you start your studies, you will become a very skilled student in your Latin classes. Good luck everyone, study and love science!
Hello.
My name is Sergey. I am 26. I am a medical student and would like to become a doctor in the future.
As you probably understood, the Latin language is fundamental in my profession, as doctors, pharmacists, biologists, etc. need to know it.
But for reasons that are incomprehensible to me and my classmates, we were not taught Latin, and are not going to be taught.
Was only short course consisting of several pairs.
Frankly, even understanding the need for knowledge of Latin for my future profession I didn't manage to learn this language at the university...
A little history of the Latin language.
Latin or Latin is the language spoken by the inhabitants of the Latin tribe living in the western part of Italy with the center in Rome.
Latin belongs to the Indo-European family of languages, to the Italic group.
There were several stages in the development of the Latin language:
1. Pre-literary (240 BC).
2. Archaic Latin or Ancient Literary Period (240-100 BC).
3. Golden Latin or Classical Latin (from 100 BC to the 14th century AD). It is at this time that they are specified and fixed grammatical norms, and Latin itself receives the highest literary level. The prose of Caesar, Sallust, Cicero appears, the creations of the poets Horace, Virgil, Ovid appear.
4. Silver Latin (from 14 BC to 200 AD)
5. Late Latin - 200-600. It is at this time that a new qualitative phase appears in the development of the Latin language.
6. Medieval Latin period (7th-14th centuries). This period of the Latin language can be described as the written language of Western Europeans, the Catholic Church, literature and science.
7. Gold and silver Latin in the times of humanism (starting from the 14th century).
8. Starting around the 16th century, Latin began to be supplanted by other languages. Until the 18th century, Latin was the language of diplomacy, and already until the 20th century it was mainly taught only at universities and used in science and medicine.
9. Nowadays, Latin is used as the official language by the Vatican and catholic churches, as well as it is used in scientific terminology.
Difficulties with the translation of the Latin language.
One evening I was trying to translate some medical terms from Latin. To be honest, without knowledge of Latin, it is almost impossible to do this. Of course, you can use a translator, but he does not always make an accurate translation, and even more so, there is no way to constantly carry it with you.
Having suffered a little with the translation, I decided for myself that I needed to learn Latin. But the question immediately arose: “How and where to find a tutor?”
The first thing I did was to look for teachers in the newspaper. It gave absolutely no result.
I surfed the Internet all evening the next day, but I never found a teacher I could trust.
Independent study of the Latin language according to the method of Ivan Poloneichik.
After searching for several days and not finding a Latin teacher, I abandoned the matter. But soon I again had to make a translation from Latin. And I started looking again.
After the class, I approached the teacher and asked him how can I learn Latin if it is not taught at the university? To this I received an answer that I need to look for information about learning Latin using the method of Ivan Poloneichik.
Arriving home, I sat down in front of the computer and found on the Internet Poloneychik's official website with a video course on the study of Latin "Fast entry into Latin."
For me, the course was not cheap, but I still decided, because I knew that I would need to translate more than one hundred or even a thousand terms from the Latin language.
I placed an order and a week later I took the disc in the mail.
How to learn Latin easily and quickly.
When I got home, the first thing I did was insert the cd into my laptop.
Having launched the first video lesson, I saw a person who knows Latin. From the very first words, I believed that he could really teach me to read Latin, understand and even write without a translator. Therefore, I decided to study one lesson a day, which would allow me to learn Latin in the shortest possible time.
It's been a while now since I started the first lesson. Now I can understand Latin words and even whole phrases without any problems.
I'm just delighted that I can speak and write in Latin. And classmates and even teachers sometimes ask me to help them with the translation of Latin phrases.
I decided to write this review on video course "Fast entry into Latin", because I am very grateful to Ivan Poloneichik for the knowledge gained.
Now I can declare with full responsibility that you can learn Latin quickly, easily and without even leaving your home.
Official website of Ivan Poloneichik
"Fast Entry into Latin"
Ad notam (For a note):
"Knowledge of Latin allows not only to read medical terms,
but also helps in learning many foreign languages.