2 parts · 12 chapters · 157 lessons
Latin · Chapter 11
6 grammar primers.
Lesson 1 · Introduction
The Latin of the mass, the prayers and the Vulgate. Ecclesiastical pronunciation, the texts you will actually hear, and the grammar hiding inside words you may already know by heart.
Lesson 2 · Grammar primer
Ecclesiastical vs classical pronunciation: every difference, worked examples, and the one rule about never mixing them.
Lesson 3 · Grammar primer
The Our Father as a grammar lesson: the prayer is jussive subjunctives all the way down, with two imperatives to finish.
Lesson 4 · Grammar primer
Gratia plena and the ablative of fullness, participles doing the blessing, and where the familiar English wording departs from the Latin.
Lesson 5 · Grammar primer
The sung heart of the mass: the genitive the carols argue about, and the Hebrew loanwords Latin kept as they came.
Lesson 6 · Grammar primer
Everything the congregation says, with literal translations and the case grammar inside each response. Et cum spiritu tuo is an ablative lesson.
Lesson 7 · Grammar primer
The easiest large body of real Latin there is. Genesis and John, word by word, and why simple was the point.
