How to learn Latin vocabulary


In any language, the two biggest problems you have are learning the way ideas are expressed in that language, and learning the words.

The first we call grammar, the second we call vocabulary.

The lie of learning is that it’s best to study these and pick them apart separately.

That’s how I learnt – and it’s probably how you learnt.

But it doesn’t work.

If it did, we’d all be fluent, right?

Instead – and I’ve proved this with thousands of students over the years – we get students who have studied French for 5 years in school and can’t read or speak it.

And it’s even worse with Latin.

So how do you REALLY learn Latin grammar and vocabulary?

2-1.

Two for one.

Both at the same time.

But you ‘cheat’.

You give it all to your unconscious mind, while your conscious mind is just ‘noticing’ and being interested.

You do NOT do it by trying to remember or to learn.

Instead, you just notice, stay interested, and enjoy yourself.

That’s how the guy down at the pub learnt all the complex statistics and random bits of trivia he knows about his favourite sports star or movie star.

And it’s how you learnt to speak as a child.

So the best way to learn the vocabulary you need to read…

Is to read.

I know, it sounds too easy, too simple.

But it’s the truth.

But there’s a sticking point:

Chances are, you’ve been trying to learn Latin for a while – so you’ve picked up the ‘divide and memorise’ bad habit.

That needs to go.

And the best way to train yourself to LET GO is with my 4-week Decoding Latin Grammar email course:

https://decodinglatin.gumroad.com/l/PTjGB

Or you can do it for yourself.

Either way, you gotta break the habit.

Alexander

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