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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.

12 lessons150 minutesIntroductory level
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How you will learn

Learn first. Then use it.

  1. 01Understand

    Read one focused explanation without repeated summaries or filler.

  2. 02See it work

    Language lessons place new grammar and vocabulary inside a real sentence.

  3. 03Apply

    Answer questions that require recognition and reasoning, not copied wording.

  4. 04Build

    Carry core words, concepts, and source habits into the next lesson.

Course syllabus

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.

  1. 01
    8 min

    Your first Latin sentences

    Read simple statements using est while recognizing macrons and common Latin word order.

  2. 02
    8 min

    Who does what?

    Use nominative and accusative endings to identify a subject and direct object.

  3. 03
    8 min

    One person, many people

    Distinguish singular and plural subjects, objects, and forms of sum.

  4. 04
    8 min

    Present-tense verbs

    Read person and number from present active verb endings.

  5. 05
    8 min

    The first declension

    Use a complete noun pattern without confusing declension with gender.

  6. 06
    8 min

    The second declension

    Recognize masculine -us/-er nouns and neuter -um nouns.

  7. 07
    8 min

    Describing and identifying

    Make adjectives agree and use forms of sum to identify people and things.

  8. 08
    8 min

    The imperfect: action in progress

    Recognize ongoing and repeated action in the past.

  9. 09
    8 min

    The perfect: a completed event

    Recognize common perfect forms and translate completed past action.

  10. 10
    8 min

    Possession and giving

    Distinguish the genitive possessor from the dative recipient.

  11. 11
    8 min

    Place, means, and prepositions

    Use accusative and ablative constructions for motion, location, means, and accompaniment.

  12. 12
    10 min

    Read a connected Latin story

    Combine the course’s vocabulary, cases, and three tenses in a short narrative.