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Time: 10 hours
Level: Introductory
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 Introduction Resource- The aim of this unit is to enable you to get started in Latin. It has been developed in response to requests from students who had had no contact with Latin before and who felt they would like to spend...
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- 1 Learning Latin Resource
- The aim of this unit is to enable you to get started in Latin in a fairly leisurely but well-focused way. The material has been developed in response to requests from students who had had no contact with...
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| | 2 Links between English and Latin
- 2 Links between English and Latin Resource
- Although Latin is not the direct ancestor of English, as it is of Italian, French and Spanish (the so-called ‘Romance’ languages), it has nevertheless given us an enormous number of words. According to...
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| | 3 The pronunciation of Latin
- 3 The pronunciation of Latin Resource
- Contrary to what many people think, we do know how classical Latin (the Latin spoken in the first century BC and the first century AD) was pronounced. One of the main clues is provided by the spelling...
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- 4.1 Inflexion Resource
- The underlying grammatical rules of Indo-European languages (for example, English, Gaelic, French, German, Russian, Latin, Greek, Punjabi) are similar, but it is not always easy to appreciate this when...
- 4.2 Parts of speech Resource
- In describing the grammar of written Latin, the best method is to use the traditional classical grammar, as worked out by the Greeks and Romans themselves. As a preliminary, it may be useful to learn the...
- 4.3 Sentences: subject and object Resource
- A sentence consists of a number of words which, to make sense, must include a verb. Unless this is the only word in the sentence (as in ‘Run!’), there will normally be a word telling us who or what is...
- 4.4 Unravelling sentences Resource
- In the following passage, mark as many subjects, verbs and objects as you can.
- 4.5 The cases in Latin Resource
- ‘Cases’ indicate the various functions that nouns, pronouns and adjectives can have in a sentence. The case is shown by the word-ending in Latin.
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