Ch 1 · Lesson 41

Your first story in Latin

Wax-tablet notes about a dinner party that gets out of hand. Every word comes from the hundred you have just learned, apart from two listed at the top.

Read it through once - every word in it is already in your vocabulary, apart from the 2 new words listed at the top. Finish the comprehension questions underneath and the lesson completes itself.

Core 1,000

Novem loca

Nine places

Reading time
1 min
Total words
65
Unique words
30
Typical word
#84

Story

Lucius writes:

Lucius Pomponiae .

. .

Pomponia writes:

Pomponia Lucio .

? . . .

Lucius writes:

Lucius Pomponiae .

. Faustus. .

Pomponia writes:

Pomponia Lucio .

, Faustus, , : . .

Lucius writes:

Lucius Pomponiae .

Pomponia ! . , .

Pomponia writes:

Pomponia Lucio.

. Tulliam . .

Lucius writes:

Lucius Pomponiae .

Pomponia? Pomponia ?

Comprehension drill

7 questions on what you just read. Get one wrong and the story will show you where it says otherwise.

Open the full story page for the vocabulary table and the printable version.

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