Latin Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

Question

I am taking a Latin course and it is super hard the teacher is always goofing off and whenever he gives a quiz both me and most of the other kids in the class fail. I need help really bad with Latin if you know anything about declensions or accusative, ablative, or nonomitive cases please try to explain it or if you know any good Latin site that will work too. Thanks in advance!!!

Answer 1

Not sure what you are specifically looking for for help, but here are some suggestions:

1) Memorize the endings for each declension of nouns. (1st declension: -a -ae -ae -am -a, -ae- -arum -is - as- is) etc. Once you have those memorized with will be easier to recognize how words should fit in a sentence.

2) Make flash cards. The easiest way to lean vocabulary, unfortunately, is simple brute memorization. If you want to start small, start with 20 words per week, and cover the flash cards until you can look at the English version and know what the latin word is, along with its declension.

I don't know what text you are using, but I found that Wheelocks Latin Grammar worked very well for me.

Good luck

Answer 2

ok here are some small things
Nomnitive Case = Subject or Subject Complimenet, usually comes at the beginning of the sentence
Genitive = shows possesion, can be translated instead of ex. Bob's watch it can be the watch of Bob
Dative = THis is the Indirect Objects or the Indirect Objects functioning as a prepositional phrase.
Accusative = These are the Direct Objects or the direct objects that function as a prepositional phrase
Ablative = This is the object of the preposition

Remember your prepositional phrase endings. Don't forget the -is ending is a commonly used prepositional phrase ending. It comes up in ablative of means I believe.

Do you know your verb endings? If not I have a song clip I can email you to help, I'll give you the lyrics also.

Just keep studing, it's the most important thing.

Answer 3

try ur textbook site if it has one or try ecce romani which is a textbook that I used when i studied latin it has a website google ecce romani.

also for the declensions u need to learn how to use them ablative is used with these pronouns(ab, ***, de, ex, in, pro,prae sine,sub) accusative is direct object, nominative is just the regular. u have to memorize each noun in these cases and ur textbook should have the endings.

Answer 4

The school courses and the school teacher are always the best option. However it could be of some help if you give a look to the following sites (but don't expect they will be doing your own homework)
http://www.mentalcode.com/latin/
http://latinum.mypodcast.com/
http://www.learnlangs.com/latin/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_conjugation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_declension
http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Latin/Grammar/index.html

I wish it helps.

Answer 5

I don't know anything about latin but i suggest you take a new language next year. But don't take french it is really hard!