Learn Latin for culture and stimulation of the mind.
Do better in spelling.
Understand the language that is at the basis of Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian.
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For students considering taking courses in Latin
To read the Church Fathers
To understand the new Latin Mass
To develop your mind
We teach Latin like a spoken language. You will learn the different forms of words with little effort.
You will see the logic and order inherent in the Latin language.
Caesar and Vergil are not included. Instead we will teach you to speak Latin just as we would teach you to speak Italian or Spanish.
Readings will be taken from such sources as Harry Potter in Latin, Winnie the Poo in Latin, Dr Seuss in Latin, the Little Prince in Latin, the Latin Vulgate,
some Church fathers.
Instruction is tailored to your needs and goals. We start at your level. We progress at your pace.
If you are having trouble with Latin in high school or college, this is not the course for you.
This course is to be taken BEFORE you take Latin in school, or for pure enjoyment.
Beginner Latin
Intermediate Latin
To start, we suggest a one hour lesson once a week for 12 weeks.
Come in for your no-obligation evaluation interview: meet your instructor before you start.
You start as soon as you and the instructor agree on a schedule.
All our students can renew their enrollment at the same price within 6 months.
Dictionary and book required.
Here's how we teach Latin. All you teachers of Latin take notice. You have my permission to copy this method, as long as you credit the source.
We start with pictures of common objects with their Latin names.
Feminine A-stem nouns are together on one page. (For example, aquila, ala, barba)
Masculine O-stem nouns are together on one page. (For example, agnus, annulus, carrus, cattus)
Neuter O-stem nouns are together on one page. (For example, edificium, bellum, caelum)
Exceptions are held in quarantine (For example, agricola which is masculine but has a feminine ending) We don't believe in confusing the student.
These types of nouns are the most common. We do not feel compelled to throw all "5 declensions" at you all at once hoping that they stick.
You can wait a while before you learn words like manus - hand, feles - cat and spes - hope.
We want you to see the logic and consistency of Latin before you wrap your mind around those.
You will have much practice with these nouns in the nominative case, using the verb ESSE - to be.
You will learn some adjectives that follow the same pattern as the above nouns, like
aequus, albus, idoneus.
Then you will learn some common A-stem verbs such as aedifico, ambulo, amo, canto. This type is the most common.
You will be using them in the I, YOU, HE, SHE, IT, WE, THEY forms.
Since some verbs take an object, you will learn the accusative (objective) case of the above nouns.
At this point you will be able to create complete sentences, such as domina portat anulum - the woman wears a ring.
You will practice creating numerous sentences.
Since some verbs can take an indirect object, you will learn the dative case of the above nouns.
At this point you will be able to say things like domina dat anulum viro - the woman gives a ring to the man, or to her husband.
The genitive case will enable you to say things like: anulus reginae aureus est - the queen's ring is made of gold.
The ablative case will enable you to express the means by which something is done, (it has several other uses as well)
and will have you saying things like: amita cantat studio - the aunt sings with zeal.
You will get much practice and with A-stem and O-stem nouns and adjectives, and A-stem verbs and using them in many many sentences
in various combinations.
At this point you will be ready for different types of verbs and nouns. We will even give you a few words that are exceptions. But they will be no problem,
because you will already know how Latin works.
Since the order of words in the Latin sentence doesn't matter (except in a few cases),
we will give you Latin sentences in a natural word order, like English.
After a while we will move words around in sentences, to give you a more Latin word order.
But we will never use the unnatural, artificial, stilted word order of poetry,
which makes for sentences that are very difficult to understand.
So goodbye Caesar and Vergil!
What does learning Latin do for my mind? It shows you that words have meaning, and carry meaning,
and that the way they are put together in a sentence adds to the meaning. There is little ambiguity in Latin.
This is a great antidote to modern American English, which is rapidly becoming a mass of words thrown together
with no regard to grammar or syntax. This forces the listener to try to figure out what is really meant
because the words don't express the meaning.
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