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Latin: a dead language, taught like a living one.
A 1,000-word frequency course built from our own public domain corpus, with classical pronunciation on every word and the Latin you actually meet: the mass, the law and the mottoes.
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3-word session
A quick mix of exercises - recognise, recall, type and build each word. Miss one and it comes back round until it sticks.
Graded reader
Amicus venit
Only words the course has taught
Marcus . : . .
Marcus is in the villa. A friend comes and says: everything is good. But there is no water.
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Read Latin from the first week.
Ten graded readers under a strict vocabulary ceiling. Marcus is in the villa from story one, and by the last you are reading real Latin prose without a crib.
Browse Latin storiesGrammar that treats you like an adult.
Puellam videt and videt puellam mean the same thing, because the ending carries the word's job. Case is the whole game in Latin, and the guides teach it as one.
Explore Latin grammarFirst declension
puella
girl - The case endings
- nominative
- puella
- accusative
- puellam
- genitive
- puellae
- dative
- puellae
- ablative
- puella
The ending shows the word's job, not its position, so puellam videt and videt puellam both mean he sees the girl.
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Latin by the numbers
Counted from the course, not rounded up for the brochure.
- words, ranked from our own corpus
- 1000
- grammar guides, prayers included
- 31
- strict-ceiling graded readers
- 10
- song lessons in the course
- 3
words, ranked from our own corpus
grammar guides, prayers included
strict-ceiling graded readers
song lessons in the course
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