06.09.24: Follow-up on the previous post [1]; George Adler’s questions on languages

Referring to David Amster's post https://www.facebook.com/.../permalink/510459171565356/

George Adler published A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language; with Perpetual Exercises in Speaking and Writing in 1858

https://archive.org/.../adler-george-practical-grammar-of...

Adler’s book never gets enough focus although I’ve had a copy of it for several years. His book is crammed with dialogues often based around specific topics i.e. no different from what, for example, a UK teacher of GCSE French would do. Sometimes, the dialogues are rather bizarre and I suspect he did that to make them more memorable.

Adler focuses on the key questions and ways of responding rather than, at this stage, delving too deeply into the grammar.

[1]

— Loquerisne Hispānicē? │ Do you speak (in) Spanish?

— Nōn vērō, domine; Ītalicē loquor. │ No, Sir; I speak (in) Italian.

— Quis Polonicē loquitur? │ Who speaks Polish?

— Frāter meus Polonicē loquitur. │ My brother speaks Polish.

— Ecquid vīcīnī nostrī Russicē loquuntur? │ Do our neighbours speak Russian?

— Nōn Russīcē sed Arabicē loquuntur. │ They don’t speak Russian but Arabic.

— Loquerisne Arabicē? │ Do you speak Arabic?

— Immō vērō Graecē et Latīnē loquor. │ No, I speak Greek and Latin.

[2]

Anglicē, Latīnē etc. are adverbs i.e. you are literally saying “in English”, “in Latin” etc.

Anglicē: in English; adverb from the adjective anglicus, -a, -um

Arabicus > Arabicē: in Arabic

Francogallicus > Francogallicē: in French

Hispānicus > Hispānicē: in Spanish

Graecus > Graecē: in Greek

Latīnus > Latīnē: in Latin

Ītalicus > Ītalicē: in Ītalian

Polonicus > Polonicē: in Polish

Russicus > Russicē: in Russian

[3] loquor, loquī: speak; this is a special type of verb known as deponent – these verbs will be discussed later in the group but, for now, I would just become familiar with its forms here so you can use it in the context of this topic:

loquor │I speak

loqueris │ you (sg.) speak

loquitur │ he / she speaks

loquimur │ we speak

loquiminī │ you (pl.) speak

loquuntur│they speak