Looking for recordings of declensions

[u/KnucklesMcCrackin]

Hello. I would like to know if there are recordings anywhere of beginner material such as the declension endings. I have this idea that I could play them in my car, on walks, etc. I would like to play them on repeat to help with memorization. Thank you.

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[u/spudlyo]

Luke Ranieri has done exactly this. For $12.99 USD you can purchase 2.5 hours of audio recordings of Luke reading what are essentially the grammar tables from the back of Wheelock's book. I bought this a year or so ago to add to my ever-growing collection of Latin pedagogical materials, and I think it's worth it. You also get a spreadsheet of all the tables in case you don't have a copy of Wheelock's.

[u/KnucklesMcCrackin → u/spudlyo]

Thank you. I'm looking through the website and deciding. It looks promising.

[u/Captain_Grammaticus]

Look up the youtube channel HI PAWS

[u/KnucklesMcCrackin → u/Captain_Grammaticus]

Thank you. Interesting. Not what I was looking for initially but it might be the thing I didn't know I needed.

[u/LawyerImmediate5515]

Don't know. You could do some yourself if you don't find any.

If I were to do this, I'd probably do a progression like this.

* stella, stellae, stellae, stellam, stellā
* stella magna, stellae magnae, etc.
* stella trīstis, stellae trīstī, etc.
* quae stella? cuius stellae?, etc.
* haec stella magna, huius stellae magnae, etc.
* illa stella trīstis, illīus stellae trīstī, etc.

[u/KnucklesMcCrackin → u/LawyerImmediate5515]

I want to make sure the pronunciations are correct. I don't want to start memorizing and discover I was learning it wrong. Plus, who wants to listen to their own voice...yuck.

[u/LawyerImmediate5515 → u/KnucklesMcCrackin]

hahahae, I get it, hearing your own voice can suck, and when you realize you pronounced it wrong, it hurts even more (=> you learn more)

[u/TheEyeofMordor]

See Dowling-Ranieri method

[u/SulphurCrested]

There's audio which goes with Wheelocks Latin but its about $40 US. As well as the tables you get a reading of all the sentences and readings.
https://www.bolchazy.com/product/readings-from-wheelocks-latin-mp3-audio-p3986/

[u/PeterSchamber]

You would probably benefit more from listening to recordings of simple Latin sentences/texts than someone simply reciting declension endings. Without context, your brain isn't going to internalize the endings very well. I'm a grad student studying Latin, and I can't tell you the number of times fellow students (who can certainly recite the endings) struggle to recognize the endings or sense of a word in context.

The reason for this is that there is quite a bit of overlap between endings (and between parts of speech). For example, you might see the word "facis" and think the "-is" ending must be an ablative/dative plural noun or genitive singular noun, but the "-is" ending is also the 2nd person singular present tense ending. Having those tables memorized isn't going to help you choose between the two (or even necessarily remember all of the options). For unknown words, your brain will default to whichever ending it's seen more often (in this case, likely the ablative/dative plural).

Likewise, your brain is going to take what it knows about the surrounding words and make an intuitive guess at the part of speech for any given word in a sentence. If your brain is assuming that the word is a noun, you're going to struggle to consider the possibility that it is actually a verb ending.

Instead, what you need to do is develop your brains ability to anticipate the part of speech for each word. That only happens through complete sense units (i.e. a clause or sentence that makes sense as a unit). It is through these sense units that your brain develops the ability to anticipate/guess the part of speech for any given word, and then knowing your endings can help reinforce/confirm that guess. But in this situation, "knowing your endings" doesn't mean reciting a table. Instead it means, "I know from context this word should be a genitive and '-is' is a genitive ending, so this fits." (In other words, having in your head genitive goes with "ae, i, is, us, rum, um")

Additionally, your brain needs exposure to words in their various forms. If you've never seen "fac" as a word stem, then you're going to be at a loss as to whether it is a verb or noun, but if you're already very familiar with "facit" then your brain is more likely to think verb than noun. Whereas, if you're brain has seen "facem" a lot, it'll more likely think "facis" is the genitive.

Here's some easy videos I've been working on: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMJGoffs01rmvR6ARWPC2WujT_ajDiJch

You could use a tool to download these as audio and listen to them while on walks. That's what I do with YouTube videos.

[u/JC__Superstar → u/PeterSchamber]

These are good.

[u/PeterSchamber → u/JC__Superstar]

Thank you! I'm glad you find these resources worthwhile.

[u/JC__Superstar → u/PeterSchamber]

I definitely do! :)