latinclasslover

[latinclasslover]

Japenese Writing

The Japanese writing system consists of three different systems: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. In the Japanese sentence below (I buy a television), all three systems are used.

[latinclasslover]

Pronunciation In French

There are 26 letters in the French language, all the same as English.

The pronunciation of these letters depends on:

Whether theres a diacritic (acute ´, grave `, circumflex ˆ, umlaut ¨) 

The letter combination

Whether the syllable is open (ending in a vowel) or closed (ending in a consonant)

The origin of the word

[latinclasslover]

Spanish Alphabet

[latinclasslover]

Latin Case Endings

In Latin, nouns and adjectives have special case endings to show the job they do in the sentence.

The subject, which is doing the action, is in the Nominative Case.

In the feminine form, nominative words end in -a (singular) or -ae (plural)

In the masculine form, these words end in -us (singular) or -i (plural)

An example of this would be:

Puella

The girl

The object, which suffers the action of the subject, is in the Accusative Case.

In the feminine form, accusative words end in -am (singular) or -as (plural)

In the masculine form, these words end in -um (singular) or -os (plural)

Another example:

Puellam amat

He loves the girl

Using the nominative and accusative together, we can form sentences like

Puella pueros amat

The girl loves boys

Order Of Translation:

Nominative - Verb - Accusative

PS

When translating Latin to English, never translate the adjective before the verb, and if there's no subject in the sentence, go straight to the verb. (Seen in sentences like casam videmus, we see the house.)