Welcome to the Societas! It's good to see another Scribonian around. That Latin compendium sounds like an invaluable tool - in what other fields do your interests lie?
Thank you.
The problem I've always found with Latin words is the wide range of meanings they can convey, so often the English side of the spreadsheet is quite crowded. It seems to me to be quite useful for spotting easily confused words and putting together lists of Latin words that can be translated by the same English term (a particular irritant to my mind, unused as it is to languages). Part of the document was put together while I was still a beginner, and I'm sure the translations I chose reflect that.
At the moment I'm reading some Ovid (Heroides) and finishing off my Caesar (De Bello Gallico, which has always, I gather, been a right of passage for learners of Latin). After that, I rather hope to move on to Martial, Lucretius, or perhaps Suetonius, who is the historian actually responsible for my interest in the Romans.
As for "projects", as they seem to be called on this board, I am quite keen on putting together a syntax of Latin, arranged by the function rather than by form. So you would have a section on, say, asking questions (including the use of rogo, direct and indirect questions, alternate questions, and the deliberative subjunctive - all of which seem to be widely separated in the textbooks I've read), or conceding a point (cum, qui, quamquam, quamvis, licet etc, concessive subjunctive). Comparison (words such as velut, tamquam, perinde ac si etc) seems not to be covered by grammars at all, and all the rather simple but important points of Latin grammar seem to be found right at the back of the textbook. So I feel there's a need for rearranging my grammars.
This would partly be for my own purposes, since I feel I need to take apart my prose composition books and put them back together again in a more logical order if I'm ever going to learn anything, and partly for anyone else who might interest themselves in my pitiful latinity. It is a bit of a shame we can't put together a wiki, but I suppose that takes a great deal of time, something the folks here seem rather short of.
I'm quite keen on Latin prose composition, and I did once try my hand at putting together an elegiac couplet, although this was less than wholely successful. Has anyone here tried verse composition? Genuinely hard to fit one's thoughts into a pentameter - I had a new respect for Martial when I finished.
Tell me, sodales, are any of you familiar with the Textkit website? I think I see an avatar or two I recognize