Language of the Catholic Church and Western Civilization
Salvete, Omnes! For those of you starting out on the grand old road of Latin study with Fr. William Most and his excellent Latin by the Natural Method as your guide, I present recordings of the Latin texts in the first four chapters of the textbook. (Eventually I hope to have the whole book recorded,... Continue Reading →
Q: What is meant by "case"? (Any why doesn't it matter which way words are arranged in a Latin sentence?)
Here are some places to find Latin words for new things you may need to talk about, such as best-sellers and mountain bikes.
Courtesy of the Teacher's Manual to Latin by the Natural Method, I learned a mnemonic for remembering the gender of many of the Latin nouns in 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th declensions. (3rd has many of each gender, so those are a different story!) I have made a PDF of the "Hand Rule" to illustrate... Continue Reading →
These are wide enough to be useful in a big textbook--if you're using Scanlon...well, hopefully you'll still find them nice!
I recently wrote these stories for the students in my Latin I class. They should be enjoyed after a student has worked through the lessons marked.
These are the very first steps to sentence diagramming. Of course there's way more to know--but these are the very basics that will get you started. Keep this mental tool handy when you really want to get inside the grammar of a sentence!
The sense of a Latin sentence is found in the noun endings!
It's never too early for Latin, and it's never too late.
This seems like the perfect time of year to plan something exciting: start-to-finish Latin by the Natural Method, Vol. 1 doing just a paragraph a day. Really. A paragraph is so bite-sized almost every single one of you should be able to squeeze that in. But there are enough days in the year that you... Continue Reading →
