06.09.24: Follow-up on the previous post [3]; reading and talking about languages

[1]

A: Ex quō tempore linguam Latīnam discis?

B: Abhinc decem annōs initium fēcī.

A: Loquerisne Latīnē?

B: Latīnā linguā loquor, sed difficile est loquī.

A: Latīnēne intellegis?

B: Ita, Latīnē intellegō.

A: Rēctē Latīnē loqueris.

B: Lentius, quaesō, loquere! Sī distīnctē nōn loqueris rem intellegere nōn possum.

A: Latīnē respondē!

B: Dīcam, sī poterō, Latīnē.

Find the Latin:

Answer in Latin

Do you understand Latin?

For how long [from what time] have you been learning …?

I can’t understand

I started / I made a start

I shall say (it) in Latin

If you don’t speak clearly

It’s difficult to speak

Speak more slowly, please

Ten years ago

You speak Latin correctly

[2]

The following post came from a Latin discussion group.

“Paululum sed nōn optimē loquor, quoniam paucōs inveniō quī loquī possunt. Et tū amīce, intellegisne Latīnē? Velīsne loquī mēcum? In scholā Catholicā linguam nostram doceō et nōnnūllōs aliōs magistrōs Latīnitātis invēnī quī quoque mēcum loquuntur. Scīlicet magistrae meae melius loquuntur quam ego.”

Latīnitās, Latīnitātis [3/f]: a general term referring to various aspects of the Latin language e.g. Latin style, literature etc.

1. How well does the writer speak Latin?

2. How many other Latin speakers has she found?

3. What question does she ask her friend?

4. What does she invite her friend to do?

5. “In scholā Catholicā linguam nostram doceō” – is she referring to Latin?

6. Who speaks with her?

7. What does she say about the teachers’ ability in Latin?

[3]

From the authors

Num Latīnē scit? (Cicero) │ He doesn’t understand Latin, does he?

Epicūrēī nostrī Graecē ferē nesciunt nec Graecī Latīnē (Cicero) Our Epicureans can almost not understand Greek, nor the Greeks Latin

Quid ergō? istī hominēs Latīnē nōn loquuntur? (Cicero) │ What then? Don’t those guys speak Latin?

ille canōrā vōce Latīnē legēbat librum (Petronius) │ He was reading a book in Latin in a melodious voice

choraulēn meum iussī Latīnē cantāre (Petronius) │ I told my flute-player to sing in Latin / play Latin music / songs

Sed quī dē numerīs Latīnē scrīpsērunt Graecā ipsā dīxērunt, (Gellius) │ But those who have written in Latin about numbers have said (them) in Greek itself [= have used Greek expressions]

enim Latine loquī neque vult neque potest (Apuleius)│ for he neither wishes to nor is able to speak (in) Latin