Salvéte, ómne! Or "Hi, all!" in English. Welcome to my blog series. My name is Prachya Boonkwan and I'm an English-Thai bilingual. I'm a computational linguist working on data-driven natural language processing for Thai, whereby machine learning, calculus, symbolic logic, statistics, and linear algebra are widely used.
In late 2019, I decided to sign up for Latin 101 class at Thammasat University in Bangkok. After twenty years of doing computer science and mathematics, I rediscovered my passion on learning languages long lost since I was young.
That being said, I wish to dedicate this blog as footnotes of my journey on learning the ancient language of Classical Latin. At the moment, I'm reading the book Língua Latína written by Hans H. Ørberg in 1955. This is the book used throughout the class.
Note that I don't use the macron sign ¯ to denote the long vowels as the book does. I'd rather opt for the simpler acute accent ´ to denote a stressed syllable, easing the pronunciation for English speakers. So, instead of accūsātīvus, I'll simply write accusatívus. Easy peacy, lemon squeezy!
Being both a computer scientist and a computational linguist, I'm not a big fan of rote learning and memorization. I always try my best to digest and formulate things into a small set of rules for the sake of generalization. This is also the case when I embrace the enchanting Classical Latin.
This blog series may include, but not limited to, some grammatical points, exercises, and some memorization tricks of inflection and declension as taught in the class.
So without further ado, come join my journey!
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