New Latin Thread - Cramming tips? (1 Viewer)

[zhongie]

Hey all,

I will add myself to the pantheon of Latin students in the BoS forum...

Trials are coming up and I have three days to cram for Latin.

I'm totally HOPELESS for unseen, though I can pretty much kick the virgil...

Don't know what I should do with my three whole days. Try and engrave virgil and cicero into my brain, and then hope for the best in unseen?

 

[Frigid]

Try and engrave virgil and cicero into my brain, and then hope for the best in unseen?

zhongie, you just answered your own question.

engrave/solder/imbue/imprint/rote the texts into your head and if time, read some of the commentary on context/grammar (that's how i got thru latin and i was hope-fucking-less for unseen). goodluck.

 

[greeninsanity]

Try and engrave virgil and cicero into my brain, and then hope for the best in unseen?

yes! you must know the seen translation. after that, if you have time, just revise the syllabus vocab.
everyone else might do badly in unseen as well (they do at my school)...

 

[zhongie]

We only have two people at my school. That's why we don't get any work done...and we both suck at unseen, even though our teacher is rather kind, and gives us easy ones.

 

[rukawasan]

omg... the old latin forum is alive again... "nostalgia"

dude... just own everything...
for unseens... have a go at all the other shool's past papers... alot of the times they repeat... well... at least it did last year

 

[Newbie]

neg thats not nostalgia
theres is no spam here
yuck

 

[babydoll_]

no time like teh present to start eh Newbie

 

[Fido]

what school zhongie?

 

[zhongie]

Fido...

I go to MLC, Burwood. Do you know it?

How about you?

 

[Frigid]

ohhh mlc girls..

anyway, how did the trials go?

 

[zhongie]

Trials was pretty good!

I'm happy. I got 15/15 for both translations, and then 9/10 for grammar, 17/20 for Virgil commentary, 18/20 for Cicero commentary and 15.5/20 for unseen.

All in all, really really happy. 90% all up. so yeah.

And MLC girls (both of us) rock.

 

[Frigid]

All in all, really really happy. 90% all up. so yeah.

goodwork 90% pretty good mark (considering i srsly got 69% for my trials)

have fun for the rest of your hsc.

 

[zhongie]

Fun...that's one way of putting it. The nine circles of hell is another.

But Latin is good. I have the same teacher as Weisy and Milly did...so yeah. Lots of strange, strange jokes, and not alot of studying going on.

 

[Frigid]

Fun...that's one way of putting it. The nine circles of hell is another.

But Latin is good. I have the same teacher as Weisy and Milly did...so yeah. Lots of strange, strange jokes, and not alot of studying going on.

a fellow reader of dante! *admiration*

but yeah, latin study is also about culture, in-jokes and that cute st-george chick who do latin

 

[zhongie]

Oh, yes. I just adore it when I understand my Latin teacher's jokes.
Example: I'll just have five of that, thanks. *makes a peace sign*
Geddit?

I love using my pretentious Latin to translate school mottos! Yay!

And Dante rocks!

 

[Newbie]

does anyone like lacuna coil?

 

[Lexicographer]

Pssh, you guys aren't real readers of Dante unless you can do it in the Middle Italian!

 

[Lexicographer]

Oh, yes. I just adore it when I understand my Latin teacher's jokes.
Example: I'll just have five of that, thanks. *makes a peace sign*
Geddit?

I love using my pretentious Latin to translate school mottos! Yay!

And Dante rocks!

I just read that, what a retarded joke. So retarded I literally laughed out loud.

I use my Latin to translate old inscriptions on buildings and churches.

 

[Frigid]

Pssh, you guys aren't real readers of Dante unless you can do it in the Middle Italian!

neither can you robert.

and anyway, there's a reason he called it CANTOS (ie. for moi)

 

[Lexicographer]

Actually the correct plural is "Canti"...and yes, I can.