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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 pronunciation audio and the Latin you actually meet: the mass, the law and the mottoes.
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Quick taster
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.
20 graded readers under a strict vocabulary ceiling, with the English alongside. Marcus, Gaius and Iulia carry you from the first hundred words to the last; the real texts, the Pater Noster and the Vulgate, are read word by word in the Church Latin chapter.
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.
Built for Latin, specifically
Not one course photocopied eleven times. Each language gets the tools its own difficulties actually call for.
The Learn IPA course comes with it
One Plus subscription gets you the Latin course and the full Learn IPA course: ten lessons, every drill, and the same words heard in two English accents, General American and British RP. The Latin IPA chart then sets Classical and Church pronunciation side by side, vowel length included, so you can read either off the page.
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
- 54
- strict-ceiling graded readers
- 20
- 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
Certification
Prove your Latin
A timed exam on the words that matter most: recognition, listening, recall and a reading passage. Pass with 80% and the certificate is yours, with its own verification link for LinkedIn or a CV.
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Graded stories, a grammar article and drill for every point, a whole games arcade, printable worksheets and lessons by email. One account, every language.
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