Latin A2 Thread

Nope. I've not done a lot of prose because I'm cramming the verse so much though. I actually prefer Livy to Caesar because the technical military jargon was even worse with Caesar, but that isn't to say that Livy's a good option in any way, shape or form. What about the prose composition?

The prose comp isn't actually as bad as it sounds - there is a tendency to be like OH MY GOD IT'S HARD ENOUGH TRANSLATING LATIN TO ENGLISH BUT NOW WE HAVE TO DO IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND?! But after that initial reaction, which I definitely had when I found out I was doing prose comp, I gave it a go and it's surprisingly okay - the only problem is the CLC doesn't prepare you for **** with grammar, so I've pretty much had to cram all that. Anyone else doing prose comp?

Yup, totally agree, and about CLC as well! I am a complete wreck with my grammar (including learning the declensions pretty much this year and still being iffy on them now). I am planning to do the prose comp, unless it's an absolute monster, so I am prepping the Livy just in case. Doing some practice Ovid passages right now - Ovid hexameters is pretty much just Metamorphoses, right?

My teacher used to mark the Latin A2 and he said that the students who did prose comp had a much higher average mark than those who did the comprehension (of course that was a different author though) so I'm pretty happy. I don't think it'll be bad at all - both the past papers I've done have been very manageable. You will definitely get a section of metamorphoses, yes. My teacher has advised us to read the whole book in English (which I haven't done) so we know what's going on, but his hexameter is okay to translate, if you know grammar and a decent amount of vocab. My advice at this point would be to make sure you know as much of the AS list as you can, because usually you can figure out the verse words from context. Also, what's this about not learning your texts?!

stressed about the verse. I'm just not sure how it is going to go. I know the aeneid in translation, but nowhere near enough stylistic points. Ive learnt the john taylor lists, so im thinking going over grammar and some notes for the aeneid will be done tomorrow. Only problem is its fathers day!! Obviously i will spend time with my dad, but its going to get in the way of a full days latin revision!

Absolutely dreading the language, I am incapable


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So have people learned the translation for the set texts like we had to last year?

EDIT: I do know we don't have to, but I was wondering if anyone had bothered? I haven't and I'm regretting it a bit now!

To those saying we don't have to translate... the examiners' reports do say that to get marks for AO2 you need to be quoting and translating the Latin?

To those saying we don't have to translate... the examiners' reports do say that to get marks for AO2 you need to be quoting and translating the Latin?

Yeah to get AO2 your analysis needs to be close and referenced to the Latin, and if quoting the latin, it always has to be translated

Is this only for the first commentary essay though? I didn't think we had to quote Latin on the essay analysing the whole of the book?

Arrgghhhh so worried about this

WHY IS LATIN SO DIFFICULT