PT:Língua latina
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A Lingua Latina é a língua de Roma. É o mais adequado e autêntico modo de expressar completamente a cultura romana, de acessar a sua literatura, suas idéias e filosofias, de subergir em suas éticas e virtudes, de não apenas entender mas intimamente adotar e incorportat perfeitamente seu completo modo de ver o mundo e viver nele. É também a única língua em que os ritos religiosos romanos podem ser realizados com rigor. NOVA ROMA demonstra a importância dessa língua nos seus termos usados com freqüência, inclsive os diferentes cargos do governo, os nomes das leis e decretos, os nomes das virtudes. É um dos objetivos de NOVA ROMA promover a Lingua Latina e o seu uso em todas as situações de vida entre seus cidadãos.
Aprender latim
Nas últimas décadas, a maior parte das pessoas deixou de ter latim como matéria em suas escolas. Entre aqueles que o tiveram, grande parte abandona os estudos por não achar interessante ou então acaba esquecendo pelo desuso. Isso não é novidade, mas não devemos tirar conclusões errôneas com isso.
- Primeiro de tudo, nada pode ser aprendido sem motivação, e os adolescentes que são geralmente expostos ao latim enquanto matéria na escola não são adequadamente incentivados nesse estudo. Não é mostrado a eles a importância de se aprender essa língua. O valor obsoleto que o latim tem dentro da Igreja Católica, quase desaparecido após o Concílio Vaticano II, não os impressiona mais. E os professores, que freqüentemente flutuam sobre o limpo moral da nossa época, são pusilânimes demais para demonstrar engajamento em qualquer conjunto de ideais, inclusive pagãos ou qualquer outro que faça os alunos sentirem-se atraídos a aprender.
- Secondly, the teaching methodology is made so unnecessarily dry that it is a miracle if anyone actually does learn anything at all. The teachers have been so conditioned —and condition their students— to consider Latin a dead language that none of them can actually realise that language learning is an innate capacity of humans that should be ever so natural and easy if only the language was taught the natural way, that is by actively using it, through listening to it and speaking it, as all other languages that people normally do learn. They stubbornly try to teach the Latin language against the grain of any natural language learning, and they obviously fail.
The Latin language can be learnt in a more pleasant and efficient manner, and it is officially taught this way in NOVA ROMA at the Academia Thules by well experienced teachers to motivated students. Every citizen is most encouraged to join a course.
Some other Latin learning resources on the Internet are:
Latin1, fabulous resources for beginning Latin students. Latin Background Studies, original studies and background essays on the Latin language by William Harris. About network search for "Latin" CSB/SJU Latin Language and Literature, from the Alcuin and Clemens Libraries.
In the real world, Latin is taught in many places; but, as we said, normally in an extremely dry fashion. Remarkable exceptions are the Fundatio Melissa, in Brussels, and the Schola Nova, an independent Belgian school where Latin is taught to the pupils from an early age. NOVA ROMA encourages its more affluent citizens to found similar schools for NOVA ROMA citizens.
Using Latin
As we said, most people think that Latin is a dead language, as dead as the Roman virtues or the culture it conveyed; but we know it doesn't have to be like that, not for the virtues, not for the culture, not for the language. Latin was the living language of our Roman forefathers, and it is a language like all others, that can be learnt in a leisurely way and spoken in all situations of everyday life. NOVA ROMA wants progressively but seriously to promote this usage of Latin among its citizens.
There is a Sodalitas consecrated to the promotion of Latin in NOVA ROMA, the Sodalitas "Latinitas".
The citizen of NOVA ROMA can also find other ways of putting Latin into practice through the Internet:
Grex Latine Loquentium, the greatest e-mail list for living Latin, where Latin is the only language allowed, and one can read the best Latin speakers the world over, and exchange messages with them.
Nuntii Latini, current news in Latin, that can be read or even directly listened to.
Ephemeris, online news, completely written in Latin and including numerous sections.
In the real world, the Societas Circulorum Latinorum is a worldwide federation of Latin Circles, informal gatherings of people who meet locally to speak the language. One of the founders of the society has reassured us that everyone is welcome to join their local group —or found one if there is no one close enough— and NOVA ROMA officially encourages all her citizens to do so in order to practice the language of our forefathers with experienced people. All levels are accepted. Please contact the society to find out about your closest Latin Circle.
There are also loads of summer seminars where Latin is the only language spoken. The Septimanæ Latinæ Europææ, for instance, include Roman cooking and feasting. A very complete list of such seminars all over the world, updated every year, can be found in the pages of the association LVPA.
NOVA ROMA citizens, as the rightful depositaries of the Roman culture, are most welcome and encouraged to attend such circles and seminars.
