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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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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.

18 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.

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Grammar 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.

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First 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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1,000 words by real frequency

Ranked from our own corpus of public domain Latin, classical, medieval and church texts alike, rather than borrowed from a textbook's list.

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Pronunciation audio

Word clips in reconstructed classical pronunciation, Caesar with a hard C and v sounding as w. One-syllable words use a second, Italian voice that can sound more church than classical. The first two chapters play free; Plus unlocks the rest.

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A Church Latin chapter

The mass, the Pater Noster and the Ave Maria word by word, in ecclesiastical pronunciation, taught as the grammar lessons they secretly are.

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Legal Latin and the mottoes

Habeas corpus, mens rea, and the phrase you should really translate before it becomes a tattoo.

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Graded readers

18 stories under a strict vocabulary ceiling, with the English alongside, from Marcus showing off in chapter one to the thousand-word milestone.

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Songs you already half know

Adeste Fideles, Gaudeamus Igitur and Dona Nobis Pacem, taught line by line with the grammar unpacked.

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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: 53
strict-ceiling graded readers: 18
song lessons in the course: 3

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The course is the spine, but every part of it stands on its own.

Stories Grammar Games Word lists Pronunciation Teaching resources Books Leaderboard Tools The Pater Noster, word by word The tattoo check The 1,000 most common words

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