Latin Foundations I
A complete-beginner path organized around short, comprehensible sentences. Every lesson adds a small vocabulary bank, explains one useful structure, and checks both reading and word knowledge.
Learn first. Then use it.
- 01Understand
Read one focused explanation without repeated summaries or filler.
- 02See it work
Language lessons place new grammar and vocabulary inside a real sentence.
- 03Apply
Answer questions that require recognition and reasoning, not copied wording.
- 04Build
Carry core words, concepts, and source habits into the next lesson.
A guided path in 12 short steps.
Each lesson moves from a focused explanation to an example and aligned checks. Sources remain one click away throughout.
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Your first Latin sentences
Read simple statements using est while recognizing macrons and common Latin word order.
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Who does what?
Use nominative and accusative endings to identify a subject and direct object.
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One person, many people
Distinguish singular and plural subjects, objects, and forms of sum.
- 048 min→
Present-tense verbs
Read person and number from present active verb endings.
- 058 min→
The first declension
Use a complete noun pattern without confusing declension with gender.
- 068 min→
The second declension
Recognize masculine -us/-er nouns and neuter -um nouns.
- 078 min→
Describing and identifying
Make adjectives agree and use forms of sum to identify people and things.
- 088 min→
The imperfect: action in progress
Recognize ongoing and repeated action in the past.
- 098 min→
The perfect: a completed event
Recognize common perfect forms and translate completed past action.
- 108 min→
Possession and giving
Distinguish the genitive possessor from the dative recipient.
- 118 min→
Place, means, and prepositions
Use accusative and ablative constructions for motion, location, means, and accompaniment.
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Read a connected Latin story
Combine the course’s vocabulary, cases, and three tenses in a short narrative.