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Ego lingua latina in ludo disco. Et tu?

(In case I got it wrong: I learn Latin at school. And you?)

Lingua latina amo sed dextra non sum.

(I love the Latin language but I'm not good).

Nemo scribit.
Sed solus paulo tempus pasauit.
(No one's writing. But only a little time has passed (totally made up that verb).)

Iacta est alia.?

Errare humanum est.

Chartago must be destroyed.

Sorry, very rusty, learned it long, long time ago.

All I remember from the grammar is ablativ, I believe used to describe the location of someone, which I found pretty cool. Or was it the direction which they were going?

Learned it almost 30 years ago.

Yeah, the ablative is cool, you use it for pretty much everything that isn't a verb or a subject or an object.

Still remember a lot of the sentences from the very first lesson of 1st year (which was only last year, so...):
Fabulae iucandae sunt. Fabula troiana clara est. Antiqui populi multas fabulas narrabant. Etiamnunc populi fabulas amant et laeti audiunt.

And some from James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man:

Credo ut vos sanguinarius mendax estis . . . quia facies vostra monstrat ut vos in damno malo humore estis — "I believe that you are a bloody liar . . . because your face shows that you are in a damned bad mood."

Quis est in malo humore . . . ego aut vos? — "Which one is in bad mood . . . me or you?"

Nos ad manum ballum jocabimus — "Let's go play handball"

Pax super totum sanguinarium globum — "Peace over the whole bloody globe"

Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis — "The times change and we change in them"

Salvete! Vultne aliquis adhuc latine loqui? Certisima sum in hac "Errata" Urbe nonnullos esse qui latine loqui bene conari possunt.

Etiam linguam latinam in ludo discebam. Cogito latinam linguam pulchram esse, sed difficile loqui! Quales scriptores Romanos amatis? Ego Horatium et Martialem amo. Hilarus est.

Epigramma Martiale, Liber II, Numerus 67:
"Occurris quocumque loco mihi, Postume, clamas
protinus et prima est haec tua uox 'Quid agis?'
Hoc, si me decies una conueneris hora,
dicis: habes puto tu, Postume, nil quod agas."

"Wherever you meet me, Postumus, the first word you instantly shout is 'How (what) are you doing?'
This you say, (even) if you meet me ten times within one hour: I think you, Postumus, have nothing to do."

Fortasse Postumus "NT" perfectus est?

Salvete, amici Latinae!

I'm just beginning to study Latin, but I love it already. It makes Spanish look like slang.

Linguam Latinam (accusative: object) nonnes annos (time during which) didici (perfect tense of disco). Ludo (ablative of school) et universitate (my own invented word for university also ablative).

My grammar is good I think but rusty after 2 Latinless years. I'm a lot better at Latin than Ancient Greek though. My favourite writers are Virgil and Lucretius.

I have a BA in Classics, Latin and Ancient Greek.

Capto discere linguas priscas et gnoscere solidiores historias.

Is parlate a Classical Latin verb? I'm pretty sure French parler and Italian parlare came from parabolare, which is Vulgar Latin. The French Wiktionary tells me you probably want loquere instead.

The one Ussher went to eh?

Salvete omnes!

Pulcherissima lingua est lingua latina. Non tantum in tempo Romanorum loquebatur et scribebatur, sed etiam ad diem nostram ii sunt qui cum gaudiento latine utentur, e.g in 'Academia vivario novo'. Estne aliquis hic qui id sciet? Ego fortasse in paucis annis illuc ire velim.
Utinam multae bonae dies vobis sint!

Valete,
Olaus Faber (Nomen meum Romanum feci)