How to Learn Neo-Latin (New Latin) For Scientific and Math Papers
How should one go about learning New Latin with no background in classical Latin, or any Latin for that matter? What is New Latin, and how is it different from classical Latin? What resources are available for a student of New Latin? These are the questions I wish to answer, as I have had to discover these things for myself, and it wasn't always easy. This post will cover the fascinating world of scholarly Latin. Latin: How it Changed, How it Stayed the Same When Latin is taught in schools today, it is taught by focusing on classical (1st century BC to 1st century AD) authors, with the most common by far being Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil. Learning the grammar and basic vocabulary, and reading these three authors, typically covers about 4 years of Latin education; year 1 is grammar, year 2 is mostly Caesar, year 3 is Cicero, year 4 is Virgil. This system of education, we can imagine, has been popular for a long, long time. Thus the Latin which most people learned in the Medieval per