2007 November 02- December 30 |
Reading Acceleration Machine 4.05 wins five stars at Best Freeware Download, Completely FREE Software, Best Vista Downloads, and Best Software 4 Download. |
2007 September 10 |
Verbal Brilliance in Latin: First Conjugation Deponent Forms [PDF format, 16 pages: See Number 40b.]. Ready-to-go handouts for mastering deponent verbs of the first conjugation, using twenty example words. Teachers can print directly from this pdf file. |
2007 July 14 - 28 |
Reading Acceleration Machine 4.05, with Keyboard Shortcut Guide and an Illustrated Screenshot Page. RAM is a freeware tachistoscope for Windows: it allows you to flash simple text files line by line at the rate of speed and in the font-format that you set, with provisions for variable screen-blanking times between items and additional pause-times per word (so that longer lines can remain on the screen for a proportionately longer times). New features in this major upgrade include random review, automatic random review, looping, multiple bookmarks, an acceleration function, the ability to copy particular words or lines displayed to another file, item-elimination in the loaded file, larger possible time-settings, completely automatic installation and de-installation, and more. You can use RAM for comprehension-practice, vocabulary-learning, proof-reading, and memorization or rehearsal of texts. |
2007 July 19 |
Charles E. Bennett's New Latin Composition Exercises (pp. 247-260). A program written in BBC BASIC for Windows by Johannes Patruus (for downloading or opening directly here). This program provides an easy way to improve your oral compositional skills. The Latin answers to 320 short and simple sentences are available at the press of the spacebar. The file is also listed on the Paedagogica page under Language-Learning Software. |
2007 May 17 |
Translation of Sallust's Catilinarian War: Bicolumnar Dual-Language Format, with PDF version. |
2007 May 17 |
Latin Numbers Oral Test Windows Program by Johannes Patruus — Open this file to run the program in a separate window. You can also save this file to your hard drive and run it directly from there (on Windows machines only). |
2006 July 15 |
Diploma Latin: Degree Titles |
2006 May 20 |
Comparative and superlative adjective examples added to explanation page |
2006 May 16 |
Third i-stem nouns added to comprehensive adjective pages |
2006 April 29 |
Gesta Romanorum. (Complete.) A fourteenth-century collection of anecdotes. These provide Latin reading that is easy, interesting, and plot-oriented. The contents are not entirely suitable for all ages. (72,000+ words.) |
2006 April 08 |
LatinPraxis Verb Practice 24: All Synopsis Forms, English to Latin. This exercise presumes a synoptical overview of all the major Latin forms, as presented in Verbal Brilliance in Latin. 340 items. |
2006 April 08 |
Site map revised. The structure of the site, graphically represented. |
2006 April 08 |
Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Synopsis Conventions Illustrated. A table showing the English phrases used to call for the Latin equivalents in a verb synopsis page. (Select Number 51 in the Verbal Brilliance Index for the one-page pdf handout.) |
2006 March 04 |
Additional Pages for Verbal Brilliance (Numbers 47-50). Includes a blank one-page template for verb synopses according to grammatical categories; a blank one-page template using conventional English equivalents; comprehensive verb practice for paradigm verbs, using only 3d singular and synopsis-forms; and comprehensive verb practice for paradigm verbs, using all forms. |
2006 February 04 |
Some Leading Benefits of Latin (and Classical) Studies. |
2006 January 14 |
Number Practice, from Arabic Numerals, 1001 exercises with a reciprocal answer sheet Number Practice, from Latin Names, 1001 exercises, and handout-ready PDF-files. |
2006 January 12 |
Lhomond, De Viris Illustribus, 2d Edition, Revised Format. |
2006 January 08 |
Acceleration Readers: Revised Format. Cicero's Pro Archia Poeta re-segmented. |
2005 December 20 |
Cato's Monostichs: Second Revised Translation. The translation has been revised and pdf handout versions made available. |
2005 December 13 |
All Conjugations: Verb Synopses Showing Connections to Principal Parts. PDF five-page handout. |
2005 November 25 |
Verb Practice: Perfect Tenses, English to Latin (810 items). |
2005 September 25 |
Adjective-Noun Phrases: Practice Page. PDF one-page handout. |
2005 September 20 |
-US-A-UM Adjectives: Explanation Page. PDF one-page handout. |
2005 September 20 |
-US-A-UM Adjectives: Practice Page. PDF one-page handout. |
2005 September 10 |
Syntactical Flexibility in Latin. PDF one-page handout revised. |
2005 September 10 |
The Idea of Case and Declension. PDF one-page handout revised. |
2005 August 26 |
Cato's Monostichs: Revised translation. The translation has been revised and a one-page pdf handout version has been added. |
2005 August 15 |
Everyday Latin. Ready-to-go one-page pdf handout illustrating contemporary uses of Latin. |
2005 August 02 |
Zottoli's Latin Translation of the Analects of Confucius (1879), Books 4-10. 13,000+ words added. Now complete. |
2005 August 01 |
Latin Vocabulary: High-Frequency Latin Word-Forms, second expanded edition. Over 18500 items, from a 5.3 million-word corpus. |
2005 July 01 |
Marcus Aurelius's Meditations in Latin - Books X, XI, XII. |
2005 June 30 |
Marcus Aurelius's Meditations in Latin - Books VIII, IX. |
2005 June 29 |
Marcus Aurelius's Meditations in Latin - Books VI, VII. |
2005 June 28 |
Marcus Aurelius's Meditations in Latin - Book V. |
2005 June 27 |
72 Colloquies of Maturinus Corderius (Mathurin Cordier), adapted and extensively annotated in Latin by Arcadius Avellanus (30,000 words total). Avellanus's glosses will be especially interesting to those who want to teach Latin in Latin. |
2005 June 14 |
Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Sample Verb List by Conjugations with all Principal Parts |
2005 June 14 |
Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Full Cumulative Exercises by Conjugation [12 pages, 2480 exercises] - For testing all conjugational forms randomly, using 20 sample words. |
2005 June 13 |
Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Exercises for the First Conjugation [23 pages, 1300 ready-to-go exercises] |
2005 June 10 |
Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Exercises for the Third-io / Fourth Conjugations [23 pages, 1300 ready-to-go exercises] |
2005 June 09 |
Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Exercises for the Third Conjugation [23 pages, 1300 ready-to-go exercises] |
2005 June 08 |
Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Exercises for the Second Conjugation [23 pages, 1300 ready-to-go exercises] |
2005 May 10 |
The Idea of Case and Declension [REVISED] |
2005 May 03 |
Latin Vocabulary: High-Frequency Latin Word-Forms. Increased to 12425 items. |
2005 May 01 |
Acceleration Reader: Cicero's Pro Archia Poeta |
2005 April 30 |
Latin Vocabulary: High-Frequency Latin Word-Forms. Approximately 8800 items. |
2005 March 13 |
Verb Synopsis Practice: Primary and Perfect Forms, Active and Passive [PDF FILE]. One-page handout, using English phrases rather than grammatical categories. |
2005 February 14 |
Verb Review: Primary and Perfect Tenses, Active, English to Latin. 2100+ Exercises. |
2005 January 06 |
Ratio Studiorum (selections and table of headings). A sample of early modern Latin taken from a classic text in the history of Latin pedagogy (and Western/World educational history). |
Earlier History
Contents of This Site
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These materials present the essentials of beginning and intermediate Latin morphology. In addition, you can find a summary of the vocabulary for Wheelock's Latin (6th Edition), other vocabulary studies, and some Flash movies for elementary Latin acquisition, including SWAV that combines words and images for vocabulary development.
LatinPraxis is a series of exercises correlated with the same text, using thousands and thousands of short phrases and sentences to help students achieve mastery of vocabulary and forms as well as an immediacy of understanding.
For the theory of this phrase-based approach to second-language-acquisition, read "Upgrading Latin Pedagogy."
Verbal Brilliance in Latin is a set of ready-to-go handouts in pdf format. This series of explanation-pages and exercises can be used in conjunction with any text, or they can stand alone as a beginning workshop in the study of Latin. Read the preface for an insight into the pedagogical problems that this approach is designed to address.
You are welcome to use, to improve upon, and to share whatever you may find helpful for teaching or learning Latin. The
pdf versions may be especially useful in the creation of handouts: they are formatted to fit the contents on 8.5 x 11 typing paper.
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Here you will find excellent simplified Latin reading material for beginning and intermediate students. It is especially valuable because it carries much of the long-shared Western- and world- cultural-historical koine, such as Bible stories, Aesop's fables and
famous anecdotes from antiquity. There is also one of the most famous books of fourteenth-century England, the Gesta Romanorum. |
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These readers use
pedagogical typography
and collections of parallel syntactical examples to increase comprehension speed for authentic classical texts. Recommended: Read the Introductory Note for a brief overview of the essential skills needed for a mastery of Latin prose. Current authors: Caesar, Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Livy, Quintilian, Sallust, Seneca.
 Audio-files in mp3 format present some of Seneca's letters in a common form of late-antique / Italianate / ecclesiastical pronunciation.
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Here are presentations of ideas that bear upon the pedagogy behind much of the material offered at this site. You can find some Latin translations and compositions of material like
There is some material relating to the history of Latin pedagogy, including a rare Latin textbook from 1623 (John Harmar's Praxis, with translation), and a very full timeline of Roman history from John Sandys. Because of its relevance to classical humanism, a theoretical essay on cultural history has been included. Also available are several pages on the GRASP method and free language-learning software for Windows 9x and Windows NT 4.0., the Reading Acceleration Machine. |
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A selection of sites relating to Latin Pedagogy. |
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