I’ve started reading St. Augustine’s Confessions in Latin. Now, it’s been almost four years since I studied Latin. Long time. And yet a lot of it’s stuck, miraculously. I remember a lot of the endings (they seem to have become a permanent part of me), and even some of the vocab. But it’s not enough, and so I’m going to be hitting the books again (Wheelock’s Latin and Moreland & Fleischer, along with Allen & Greenough’s Grammar). Studying just the grammar books probably wouldn’t be satisfying enough, however, so I’ll continue reading St. Augustine as I go. It’s been my experience that reading real texts helps immensely with getting the feel of a language. (Hmm, I guess I have a penchant for stating the obvious.) At any rate, I want to be reading fluently before long (long meaning any time between a year from now and 10 years from now ), and so the more I read, the better I’ll get.

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