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Latin · For teachers

Every Latin printable, chapter by chapter

The whole Latin curriculum in one place, mapped to its 12 chapters and 237 lessons. Each lesson lists its downloads inline - worksheets with answer keys, infographics and PDFs - and each chapter's words fold out into their own per-word printable sets, so you can open and print any sheet for a class without hunting through the site.

Chapter 1 · How Latin works

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  1. How Latin worksIntroduction

    Endings carry the meaning, not word order. Get the cases and everything else follows.

  2. The alphabet as the Romans wrote it, why I and V do double duty, and what vowel length changes. Read this once and Latin spelling never surprises you again.

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  4. Latin puts the grammar on the end of the noun instead of in the word order. This is the lesson that makes Latin sentences stop looking scrambled.

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  7. A Latin verb carries its own subject, which is why the pronoun is usually absent. Six endings cover every tense in the language.

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  12. Your first story in LatinGraded-reader story

    Every word in this story comes from the hundred you have just learned. No lookups required.

  13. The sounds of LatinPronunciation

    Classical v is w, c is always hard, ae is 'eye'. Watch both Latins side by side and pick your era.

  14. Et, sed, autemThemed review

    The particles that join Latin sentences together. They are the commonest words in the language and the ones a dictionary is least able to explain, so they get a session of their own.

  15. Arcade reviewReview games

    Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.

  16. Word printables

    Per-word sheets

    100 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each

Chapter 2 · Declensions: why the dictionary gives two forms

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  1. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  2. rex, regis. corpus, corporis. The second form is the only reliable way to know what endings a noun takes - and often the only way to find its stem.

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  6. Latin can put words anywhere, so writers used position for emphasis instead. Here is what a Roman was doing when he held the verb to the end.

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  8. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  9. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  10. You can read this story using only the words you have met. Every content word sits at or above the rank-200 ceiling.

  11. Who the Latin corpus talks about, and what it says a person is made of. Almost every word in the second half has become an English one, which makes this the session where you realise how much Latin you already own.

  12. Arcade reviewReview games

    Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.

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    100 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each

Chapter 3 · The third declension, where most nouns live

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  4. Rex, regis. Mors, mortis. Miles, militis. The declension with the most members and the least predictable nominative - which is why the genitive is the form worth memorising.

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  7. Latin's past tense has its own stem and its own endings, and no amount of staring at the present will predict dixi from dico. This is why dictionaries list four principal parts.

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  9. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  10. You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-300 ceiling.

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    Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.

  12. Word printables

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    100 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each

Chapter 4 · Adjectives and agreement

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  4. Bonus, bona, bonum against fortis, forte: the two adjective families, and the rule that an adjective agrees with its noun in case, number and gender - not in declension.

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  7. This one, that one, the one already mentioned, and the one that glues clauses together. Four small paradigms that carry a disproportionate share of every Latin sentence.

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  9. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  10. You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-400 ceiling.

  11. Bellum et armaThemed review

    Soldier, enemy, leader, standard. This corpus fought a lot, and chapter 3 quietly handed you the whole battlefield.

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    Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.

  13. Word printables

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    100 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each

Chapter 5 · Genitive and dative in practice

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  4. Whose, and to whom. The genitive of possession and the partitive, the dative of the indirect object, and the datives Latin uses where English reaches for a whole phrase.

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  7. Amatur, he is loved - and then sequitur, which looks passive and means he follows. Deponents are the trap the passive sets, and this corpus is full of them.

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  9. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  10. Play it, read along word by word, then answer the questions. Every word is at your level - the song page teaches the few that are new.

  11. You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-500 ceiling.

  12. Post a hello to the Latin community, in Latin.

  13. Arcade reviewReview games

    Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.

  14. Word printables

    Per-word sheets

    100 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each

Chapter 6 · The ablative and its many jobs

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  2. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  3. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  4. By, with, from, in, at, than: the case that does the work of half the English prepositions. Means, manner, place, time and separation, sorted into a usable system.

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  7. Dicam, dixeram, dixero. The rest of the indicative: two tenses English has and one it fakes with will have. Regular, learnable, and built on stems you already know.

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  9. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  10. You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-600 ceiling.

  11. Ecclesia et regnumThemed review

    Church and crown, the two powers this corpus was written under. The vocabulary of faith, law and learning in one sitting.

  12. Arcade reviewReview games

    Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.

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    100 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each

Chapter 7 · The fourth and fifth declensions

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  4. Manus and res: the two small declensions everyone meets last and forgets first. Short paradigms, a handful of essential nouns, and the dies/res family that runs the calendar.

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  7. Altior, altissimus - taller, tallest. The regular pattern, the ablative of comparison, quam, and the irregulars (melior, peior, maior, minor) that Latin passed to every Romance language.

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  9. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  10. You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-700 ceiling.

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Chapter 8 · Infinitives and indirect statement

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  4. Dixit se venturum esse: he said that he would come, with no word for that anywhere. The accusative-and-infinitive is the single most Latin piece of Latin grammar.

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  7. Amans, amatus, amaturus. Latin compresses whole clauses into single participles, and reading it well is mostly the art of unpacking them.

  8. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  9. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  10. Play it, read along word by word, then answer the questions. Every word is at your level - the song page teaches the few that are new.

  11. You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-800 ceiling.

  12. Tell us how your Latin is going - what you like and what you'd change - written only in Latin.

  13. Arcade reviewReview games

    Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.

  14. Word printables

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    100 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each

Chapter 9 · The subjunctive: present and imperfect

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  4. Amet, amaret. The mood of possibility, purpose and polite command - what the forms look like, and why so much Latin prose lives in it.

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  7. Ut with the subjunctive for so that, ne for lest, and cum for when and since. The clause types that turn the subjunctive from a paradigm into prose.

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  9. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  10. You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-900 ceiling.

  11. Corpus et animaThemed review

    Head, heart, hand and soul. The body words Latin gave to every Romance language, and to English anatomy wholesale.

  12. Arcade reviewReview games

    Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.

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    100 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each

Chapter 10 · The ablative absolute

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  2. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  3. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  4. Urbe capta, with the city having been captured - two words where English needs a clause. The construction Caesar built a career on, and the last big step to reading real Latin.

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  6. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  7. Ars amandi, the art of loving; Carthago delenda est, Carthage must be destroyed. The verbal nouns and adjectives behind half the Latin still quoted at you.

  8. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  9. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  10. Play it, read along word by word, then answer the questions. Every word is at your level - the song page teaches the few that are new.

  11. You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-1000 ceiling.

  12. Mare et caelumThemed review

    Sea, sky, storm and star-less night. The landscape words, from dies at rank 55 to tempestas at 847 - the whole course in one view.

  13. Leave a comment in Latin on a video from a Latin creator.

  14. Arcade reviewReview games

    Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.

  15. Word printables

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    100 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each

Chapter 11 · Church Latin

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  1. Church LatinIntroduction

    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.

  2. Ecclesiastical vs classical pronunciation: every difference, worked examples, and the one rule about never mixing them.

  3. The Our Father as a grammar lesson: the prayer is jussive subjunctives all the way down, with two imperatives to finish.

  4. Gratia plena and the ablative of fullness, participles doing the blessing, and where the familiar English wording departs from the Latin.

  5. The sung heart of the mass: the genitive the carols argue about, and the Hebrew loanwords Latin kept as they came.

  6. Everything the congregation says, with literal translations and the case grammar inside each response. Et cum spiritu tuo is an ablative lesson.

  7. The easiest large body of real Latin there is. Genesis and John, word by word, and why simple was the point.

Chapter 12 · Latin around you

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  1. Latin around youIntroduction

    The Latin that never died: the phrases English speaks daily, the law's working vocabulary, the species names, and the tattoos worth checking before the needle.

  2. Per se, ad hoc, vice versa, i.e. against e.g. - thirty phrases English uses daily, decoded by the grammar this course taught you.

  3. Habeas corpus to quantum meruit: what the law's Latin literally says, and the grammar that makes each phrase mean what lawyers use it for.

  4. Tattoo Latin that is actually grammatical, the famous phrases that are not, and how to check an ending before it becomes part of you.

  5. Why every species has a Latin name, how to read one, and the adjective agreement hiding inside Homo sapiens.