91 - Introductory Latin with Hannah Gilmore

you to enroll. I think that you're gonna be able to see from this, uh this introductory content, that this is gonna be a very worthwhile course. And I just I love all that we have going on in Mythic Mind right now. We've got the Augustine's Confessions, We've got Josh's Paradise Lost, You've got my philosophy course, got Hanna's Latin course, and we just have a very classically oriented

ensemble coming together here. And I really hope that you'll be able to partake in at least some of this, if not even all of it, as I know some of you are. And I love that. I love that we're able to do all these amazing things together that Mythic Mind is working on now. In particular, I really want to encourage you, like, if your interest is piqued by this Latin content that's coming up here, then go

ahead and roll in the course. You know, maybe you have the opportunity to move with us live through this twelve week study, or maybe you just want to have these resources available to go at your own pace. Go enroll in Hannah's course. You can find the link in the show notes here. And also if you're a Mythic Mind patron, then you can get half off that price and you can find the recent post on Patreon to

get that patron discount. And if you don't know where to find that, then just send me a message on make sure that you get it. But for now, let's go ahead and jump right into is content again. This is her introductory course video as well as her first Grammar lesson, and so let's go ahead and get to it.

There will be more posted eventually, but we have vocabulary resources and vocabulary request form speak and request vocabulary. There will be to clension songs and other resources as well. And then in addition to the Google classroom which I'm showing you guys right now, there will obviously be the discord chat and the live meetings which tentatively will be on Tuesday nights from at nine pm. However, that could change depending on how people in the class are available,

so just be aware of that. Okay, So let's a good lesson lessons a little shorter because there's less to do. You won't know enough to be able to read a story yet or to do certain things such as that. So let's actually look at what all the lessons will look like going forwards. This will be lessened to onward. So each week you're going to start with the grammar presentation, So I'll have linked both the actual video and I'll have linked the actual presentation so you can go through. So,

for example, here's the presentation for this lesson. Steal away, Tam Niece and welcome to introductory Latin. Okay. Next there'll be the lesson vocabulary, so there will be two videos. There'll be a video going through the regular vocabulary list and a video going through the bonus vocabulary list. And then I'll actually have PDFs of each of those uploaded, which you can see here. And then I'll also have linked to the quizlet sets for the class, which i'll

show you guys at the end of this video. Then I'll have cheat sheets on any grammar concepts that were discussed. So this lesson we're talking about present tense verbs, so I have this cheat sheet right here. There we go, so it'll provide basic information about how to do things that way. If you don't want to take notes, or if you want better notes, then you can use that.

There will be independent practice, So for this week, I have three four different independent practice assignments and they each have answer keys. The only thing that doesn't have an answer key is this assignment right here. This is the present tense active conjugation self checking assignment. So for verbs, I'll often have these self checking spreadsheets, and essentially I'm not going to pread an answer key because if you type in the right answer, the box turns green. So

there's that. So then you'll work through the practice and answer keys, which is independent. I'll actually show you an independent assignment as well. I'll show you any for Kiev. So for example, we have conjugation practice. Then we have the weekly homework. This is an assignment that I'll actually provide feedback on if you complete it. So for example, here's our lesson to homework. It's about two pages on

average each week. I try to make it a balance between covering all the grammar concepts but also not being too much that people couldn't do. Each week, you'll also have story translation, so there will be a video of a story either that I've written initially, and then it'll also be something that eventually, hopefully will be pulled from actual authentic authors once you guys get advanced enough. Oh okay, and I'll also link a PDF of this story with

footnotes for undon vocabulary words. Then there'll be the history or culture presentation. So for this week it's the Roman household. So you can go through this presentation. Let's see if I skip ahead. Will it show different things, Yes, it will awesome. So this is a really great part of a class I'm really looking forward to is getting to

talk about aspects of Roman history and culture. So for this week it's the Roman household, so it'll be talking about roles in the Roman family, but then also the actual design of the house of itself, and then we have the weekly project last of all, So in this week it's a designer Roman home project. So since people in the course will not be able to write full sentences yet at this point in the course, the project

is more of a craft type project. However, later on, for example, in Lesson three and lesson four, we see actual writing. For example, this is a mayaf Amilia paragraph, writing a paragraph about your family, and I have instructions and examples for that. So that's what a week will look like on average. Looking like lesson too, you'll see that week one there is not a weekly story. There's not there's not any additional practice, and there isn't a

project the first week. Your project the first week is to watch this video to get connected with the community and check out some of these resources which you'll have up here, just to show you the quizlets. I'm still creating them for the bonus vocabulary, but I have them created for all the regular sets, and I also have a full set created for all the vocabulary regular vocabulary, and then you can just click these. It's like digital

flash cards, and there's also games you can play. So that's just an overview what the course will look like from week to week. That's what you can expect from each week in about this order, and I recommend you start with the grammar presentation and then do the vocabulary. Then I recommend taking a look at the cheat sheet and the practice and working through those if you have time,

then doing the homework. You can also do the story translation a point after you've done the lesson in the vocabulary, but it is kind of helpful to do it after you really let some of that those concepts sink in so you'll be able to understand the story better. And then you can do also the present culture and history presentations and the projects whenever you have the time. These

are more supplementary things. So taking out of the order that I have been listed, make sure you do the grammar presentation vocabulary first, and then make sure you do the homework. If you can. That's something that I'll provide actual feedback on. All right, I hope that this has been a helpful sneak peek at what the course will look like in the future. I'm still adding things to later lessons right now, but so far lessons one through three are fully completed, so you can already start working

through them now. While salawe tam Nace and welcome to our first grammar presentation for the Mythic Mind Introductory Latin Course. Today we'll be talking about inflection, nouns and nominative subject And for those of you who are already familiar with learning languages, especially Romance languages or other inflected languages, this may be a lot of you for you, and this

first week or two may feel very slow. For those of you who are unfamiliar with these languages or just native English speakers, this could be quite difficult, and these could be the hardest speaks of the course. So I've

tried to come up with a balanced pace. We're going to be taking it slow these first few weeks and really building up these foundational grammar concepts, So wherever you're at, just know that it'll all be a pill from here but we had to take things slow and steady at first to really make sure that we're building all our Latin skills on a firm foundation without further ado. Let's get into it. The first and essential thing that you need to know about Latin is that it's an inflected language.

This means that the words in Latin sentence could be in almost any order and still make grammatical sense. English is not an inflected language. English follows a grammatical order to its sentences. Usually it's subject verb direct object, which is the noun receiving the action. For example, in the sentence the dog chased the cat, the dog is our subject, it comes first, Chased is our verb, and the cat is the direct object. It's what's being chased. It's what's

receiving the action. If we change the order of the sentence a little bit, let's say we put it as the cat chase the dog, the meaning of the sentence changes completely because now the cat is the subject, chased is the verb still, and the dog is the what is receiving the action, it's what's being chased. What if we put chased first, chased the dog the cat, Well, now we don't know what our subject and what our direct object are or the same thing with the dog

the cat chased. Once again, it's ambiguous, so English is not inflected. Latin, however, is inflected. Let's look at a sample sentence, Hanness fugawit phelim the dog chased the cat. So Conness is dog, phelim is cat, and fuga it is chased. Okay, what if we shu bet around. What if we said connis falem fugawic and if we look at the order of his words, that's the word for dog, the word for cat and chased dog cat chased. Guess what, it still translates as the dog chased the cat. What

about failam connus chased cat dog? It still translates to the dog chase the cat. Okay, okay, what if we just completely swapped dog and cat and put falem connus cat chased dog. It still translates to the dog chase the cat. This is because Latin is an inflected language, which means that the order of anatom sentence is irrelevant. It's the endings that tell us what the nana is doing. In this case, the ending on connus and the ending on falem tell us that Connas is the subject and

Salem is the direct object. So it doesn't matter whatever order we switch them around in the sentence. They still translate the same way because the endings tell us their role in the sentence. Let's have in a little more into what nouns are. A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea, and this is important to know. Nouns in Latin have a gender, number, and a case. These three things are very important to remember when you look at any noun. If you're like me when I first started

learning Latin, you might be thinking, wait, nouns have a gender. Well, nouns do have a grammatical gender in Latin. This means that all nouns are assigned to gender, and this gender will determine the form of any adjective that's modifying the noun. Latin has three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter. Now, grammatical gender should not be confused with actual gender. Usually, the assigned gender of a word has nothing to do with

the word itself. For example, the word for a house in Latin filmos is feminine, and the word for food kibbous, is masculine. There's really no rhyme or reason to it. Most of the time, So treat grammatical gender as something that you need to memorize for each noun, and keep in mind when using adjectives, don't think of it in any way as something having anything logically to do with real gender. Now, the next thing besides gender that every

noun has is a number. And this is to be easy for our English speakers here or speakers of any language, because every language has a way of demonstrating number with nouns. It's just whether a noun is singular or plural. So in English, cookie singular cookies with an S is plural, and similarly, the endings in Latin tell us whether a noun is singular or plural. Now, the gender of a noun is something you just have to know. The endings won't tell you that, but number is something that the

endings will tell you. And also case is something that the endings will tell you. In English, the role of a noun in the given sentence is shown by its order within sentence. In Latin we show the role of nouns, but using cases. There are various cases indicated by different endings that we add to nouns. The same noun with a different ending has a different role in sentence, and different cases allow us to use the same word in

different ways within the sentence. For example, the nominative case is used for the subject, and the subject is who or what does the action. We're talking about the nominative case later today, but for the sake of this point, if we see a ending that indicates the nominative case, we know that that noun is the subject of the sentence. For example, in the simple sentences earlier, Connus had a nominative case ending, so we knew connus dog was the subject of the sentence no matter where it was in

the sentence. And similarly, for example, the genitive case is used for possessions. So if we see an ending that's a genitive case ending on a noun, we know it must be being used for possession. So that's how case works. Now. Unfortunately, this does get a little more complicated because not all nouns follow the same pattern of case endings. Wouldna be very nice. Instead, every noun follows a specific pattern of

endings known as an expleension. The three most common decleensions for nouns to follow in Latin are first, second, and third. Declension is determined the ending of the genitive singular case noun form, which I will explain later. Specifically, you might be thinking, wait, what depension? What's going on? I think of it this way every now and which it'll be given to your vocabulary. It's endings will clue you into whether it's the first, second, or third decleension, and that

will determine the pattern of endings that follows. So first decleension nominative endings are going to look different than second decleension nominative endings are going to look different than third decenchion nomative endings. So there's three sets of endings that you do have to learn specifically for this course. So just be aware of this next this next slide. People that go a little overwhelming because it's gonna be a big chart, I promise it will be much less overwhelming

in time, so bear with me. Here are are noun declensions, first, second, and third. First, I want to draw your attention to the left hand column when we have our cases. These are the five main cases in Latin, and that's what we're gonna be talking about throughout this course. We have the nominative genitive, the dative, the accusative, and the ablative.

And each of these cases has its own uses. So when we see an ending that tells us this noun is this case, we know, okay, the noun could be used in this, this or this way in the sentence. So for example, if we see a nominative case ending, we know that the noun is going to be used as the subject. So that's what those are doing there. Similarly, you see that for each declension there's a singular and

a plural column. So every not only can every now you know, ending demonstrate that it's case and also differentstrates whether it's singular or plural, which means you have to learn two nominative case endings for each declension, because you have to learn the singular nominative case ending and the singular plural. I mean, in the you're in the singular anomative case ending and the plural nominative case ending. Okay. And also worth knowing is that to learn each of

these decleensions, there are songs that encompass most of the endings. Now, I will say for the second and third decleension, singular nomal you see us slash R slash c U M. There's multiple options that that could be and for the third decleension. There's that question mark, which I'll talk about a little bit later, but it just means that it could be anything. But I am going to sing these songs because I find that music is helpful for me and lots of other people in memorization. So I'm gonna

sing them now. If this is something that you're interested in using from your own memorization, because you do need to memorize these charts at some point, then I would recommend checking out on the resources tab on the Google classroom. I will have linked videos with me singing each of these songs so that you can study those without further ado. Here are declinsion songs. First, the first two clntionion song A A E A E A M A A E A are you I as I S two? Now the

firsty clensions through. That's the time for a second declension song us I oh oh, I'm I S O S I S. That's the second declension and the third declension we kind of skip over the question mark and we start with I S I E M E ees you m ip uses bus. So I'll have those videos linked on Google clustionrooms so you can listen to them. That's a great way to memorize the songs. That's how I memorize to them. But do whatever helps you to memorize them. Okay,

those are our declensions. Now let's specifically talk about, Okay, how do we figure out what declension a noun is? How do we know whether it follows the first decleension pattern of endings and second decleension pattern of endings or the third declension pattern of endings. Okay, to determine the declension of a noun, every now in your vocabulary will be given in the following format singular nominative and comma

singular genitive. And you'll see this in the vocabulary video for this week, which are grammended you watch right after this presentation. For example, the noun famina comma famini, which will be in your vocabulary this week, it means woman is given in that format famina comma femini, and we're gonna look at the ending of femini that ae, so determine what declension femina is. So declinsion is determined specifically with the ending of the genitive singular. That's the second

form that you've received in your vocabulary. It's the form that follows the comma. Okay, let's look more at this. Okay, so first to cleension nouns, all the ending patterns a comma ae just food. Looking at our genitive singular ending, it will be ae. So for example Famina, fame and I. That second form, that genitive singular form ends in ae. So we know that it's a first de cleension now and it's going to follow the first de cleension non

patterns for all the cases. For second to cleension could end the nominative singular could end in us, r or um, but our genitive singular will always end in I. For example, weird weary. It means man, and we see that it will follow the second declension for all its case innings because it's second form right there, weary, a genitive singular ends an i instead of ae or i S. Third declension will follow the pattern of any ending question mark

comma I. For example, we have patter patres. You think, okay, the first form is then an R. Couldn't that mean it could be second? No, because it ends an i s in that genitive singular form clearing is and that this is a third declension noun, and it will follow the third declension case endings for all of its forms. So those are the three things to look for AE I I S in the genitive singular nouns, that's the second form you get in each noun pair. Okay, Specifically,

in this slideshow, we'll talk about the nominative case. The nominative case is used for the subject, and the subject is who or what does the action? In a sentence. Here, I have a few exercises for guessing the subject in English. I'm sure you all be able to do this. Just for the sake of making sure you can do that in English. I can posit video now and identify the subject and then continue it to see the answers. Okay,

I'm for the answers. Here are our subject, and we see that in all these sentences, the subject is what does the action? For the most part of English, that's the first word of the sentence. In the question, we see the question word comes first. Can someone turn on the lights? But someone is what is turning on the lights? So in all those cases we see those similarities. Those are the subjects. So now let's talk about subjects in Latin. The nominative case in Latin is what it's used for

the subject. And so here I've highlighted our nominative case endings. In the first two clension, the singular nominative case ending is A and the plural is a E. In the second decleinsion, this singular ending could be U, S, R, U M, and the plural as I. In the third decleension, it could be anything. And you'll just memorize that in your real cab and yourmorize the word. You'll know what the nominative form is and then it'll end in es plural. Okay,

So let's do some subject identification practice. Okay, So looking at a subject, send it's femina. I'm not uh, let's get femina and m are two nouns. Looking back at this slide right here, you see that E M wed m. It's not a nominative ending, but A is in that case famine as our subject. Similarly, you have ses, and we see that es is our third decleension nominative plural ending, but we don't see em anywhere here. For the next one,

we see buelam mater are two nouns. We see if this am ending and then matterr there is no am materr mater matris' third declension, so it fallows in that question mark category. And then Philius. We have Filius and Philiam in that sentence. There's no a m nominative ending, but we do see ah us ending in the second declension singular nominative, so we Filius is our subject. And then more examples, we have the leaky i familiam are

our two nouns. Looking back here we see an ae and the plural nominative for first two cension, but no, I think am was the other one. Yes for the next one, weird and Delikias. There is no us nominative ending weird from we're weirdy a second cleenchion noun that our ending falls within the nominative endings to that we're is our subject. Then we have delikiam and familiar. Okay, let's look back at our charts. Am is not a nominative unding but in a singler nominative first to clension ending.

You know familiar is our subject. And then finally we have Puelas and Pueri are two nouns. In that sentence. We know pueri is our subject because if we look at this chart, khulas as is not a nominative hunding, but kueri i is the plural second de cleension nominative ending, so that's how you identify a subject in Latin. Look back at these charts, find your nominative endings and see

whether the noun is following nominative ending or not. Awesome, you've made it through the grammar presentation, so further to do. List of things that you should do after this. First of all, I want you to watch the vocabulary of video, and in that video, I'll also talk through more of like showing you how verbs i mean, how nouns will

be presented in your vocabulary and talking through that. And it's also really important that you spend about ten minutes a day at least bringing your vocabulary and making sure that you know the declension and the gender of each nown okay, and then complete your homework when you feel confident. Also, before you do that, there's a cheat sheet about nouns on canvas that you can review, which is like notes and helps explain it. And then there's also for resources

as well. You're welcome to ask questions in it chat or at the live meeting. And then once you're feeling good about that, you can complete the homework. It's to basic assignment that I really encourage to do because it'll allow me to provide feedback and assess how you're doing in the class. So I really recommend that you find time to do the homework in the week. It's about two pages, but it's really not much work. I don't

anticipate it taking you very long. So in that case, thank you so much for listening to the first gram presentation. And once again, if you have any questions, please me know in the discord chat or send me an email or ask it in the live meeting. Roties Dibiago Vale all.

can enroll in the course. In the show notes and so I hope to see you there, but until next time, God's scream