Dear Lovestar,
I’m learning Latin! 😌 😆 🤣
It’s kind of true but just for fun.
Anyway, I wrote this little something:
Romance and Sex
I have tried everything
To not think about you today.
Not because I don’t love
To think of you in this way.
But you hold captive my brain
And I just can’t concentrate.
So, I tried learning Latin
Just to keep you out of mind
I learned that Latin is parent
Of languages such as mine:
Spanish, called Romance…
Then I thought of you again.
I started learning the numbers:
Unus, Duo, Tres…
Wait, six is sex?
And there I was again
Writing poetry for vos.
©evelovestar
Vos = you in Latin.
I really wanted to end the poem by saying: poetry for você (a Portuguese word for you) I hear this word in Brazilian songs and I love Brazil, Portuguese, Samba, and I love você!
Latin vocabulary:
Amor – Love (Also Spanish)
Lux – Light (Luz in Spanish)
One – Unus (Uno in Spanish)
Two – Duo (Dos in Spanish)
Three – Tres (also in Spanish)
Six – Sex (apparently it’s pronounced something like seks) (Seos in Spanish
Et – and (y in Spanish)
Femina – woman (I had heard this before/ reminded today on my first lesson) (mujer in Spanish)
Vos/ Tu – You (tú in Cuba and informal Spanish/ Vos in Argentina and extremely formal Spanish/ usted is formal)
That’s it for my Latin lesson before someone gets offended… teach me if I made a mistake. 🙏 🙏 🙏
This is a linguistic thing that I’m trying today. It has been fun:
I translated a poem to Italian with AI (sharing that in the next post)
Then, an Italian poet edited the AI translated poem
Then the italian poet translated other poems of mine
Then, the Italian poet (I share his Twitter handle on my next post) translated other poetry to Italian while I thanked him for the free Italian lesson.
I read the Italian poems desperately trying to understand. Since Italian and Spanish, my first language, share the Latin root, there are lots of similar words. I only know some words and rare phrases in Italian.
I then did some research into the similar words in Italian/ Spanish/ Portuguese, which is my favorite language.
I really want to learn Hindi, but it’s so hard. I researched everything about the Hindi script, which is lovely but so difficult. I read so much about Hindi and Sanskrit, the language of my dreams.
Then, I downloaded language learning apps
On Duolingo, I searched for Hindi and didn’t find it! But Latin was an option.
I was doing this for fun anyway! So, I chose Latin for learning on Duolingo.
As soon as the Latin lesson started, I was happy it wasn’t Hindi! I was acing the lesson. Eventually, I made many mistakes, of course, as it was my very first time. I learned a lot of new words, and as long as I keep on coming back, I know I can learn a lot of Latin. I trust myself that way and I believe I can learn anything I want.
There’s only one problem: I don’t like the Romans!
But I like ancient languages, and Latin is the root of Spanish! So I might settle for Latin.
My dream: Learning Sanskrit and reading the ancient poetry and divine texts! ✨️
But, I’m sure there’s Latin poetry. I’ll look right now!
Tell me the truth, was the lame linguistic thing boring?
Either way,
Amor et Lux (Latin for Love and Light)
Amor is also love in Spanish
Eve, learning the Romance languages
Lovestar Temple🔥 🔥 