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"Learning Latin On-Line" by Gunnora Hallakarva. Resources on the World-Wide-Web useful in learning Latin.

NOTE: See also the files: Latin-msg, literacy-msg, languages-msg, universities-msg, Hist-English-lnks, Ital-Phrases-art.

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Learning Latin On-Line

by Gunnora Hallakarva

There are a number of resources on the World Wide Web that can help one in

learning Latin.

I'd tend to state that the serious student should still endeavor to

purchase a high-school or college-level Latin textbook, as well as a basic

Latin dictionary. These, plus the on-line resources, should allow one to

learn the language.

Latin, unlike most languages that are learned today, is no longer a spoken

language. The forms and structures have been encoded, transmitted and

taught for hundreds of years, and the whole process has been refined to the

point that Latin is one of the easiest langauges to learn, especially for

any person who speaks a modern variant on the Romance Languages (Romanian,

Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and even English, which has a lot of

words via medieval French).

One of the benefits to English-speakers is that even a single year of Latin

classes will build vocabulary. Studies have shown repeatedly that students

who have taken a single year of Latin score much higher on the linguistic

section of any standardized tests, such as the PSAT, SAT, or ACT.

GENERAL BACKGROUND FOR LATIN:

Problems with Using Dictionaries and Latin Vocabulary

http://www.middlebury.edu/~harris/LatinBackground/VocabandDictionaries.html

Essays Providing a Background for Learning Latin

http://www.middlebury.edu/~harris/SubIndex/latinbackg.html

On-Line Course-- Introduction to the Ancient World: Rome

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/rome/

[Understand the world that produced the language]

Why Learn Latin?

http://latin.about.com/library/bldunphy.htm?pid=2785&;cob=home

ON-LINE CLASSES:

Links to Correspondence Courses for Latin

http://latin.miningco.com/msub5.htm?pid=2785&;cob=home

LATIN-BASED EMAIL LISTS

Turning a very modern technology to the purposes of learning a very old

language...

Latinchat1 - email list conducted all in basic Latin

http://campus.fortunecity.com/athena/300/latinchat-l.html

LatinE - email list conducted all in advanced Latin

http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~conradus/docs/nyt.html

Vergil E-Mail List

http://www.virgil.org/mantovano/

The Mining Co's Latin Chattin' - Links to Still More Latin Lists

http://latin.miningco.com/msub16.htm?pid=2785&;cob=home

LANGUAGE PRACTICE:

See the email lists above as well.

Latin Verb Conjugation "Flashcard" Program (Downloadable)

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/7182/latin.html

Baylor University Study Aid for Learning Beginning Latin

http://diogenes.baylor.edu/WWWproviders/thorburn/latinqnahypertext.html

LATIN TEXTS:

Tufts' University Perseus Project -- Latin Texts and English Translations

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/latin_TOC.html

[Includes works by Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Hirtius, Horace, Livy, Ovid,

Plautus, Servius and Vergil]

Latin Lessons and Excercises in Downloadable PDF Format

http://www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us/HTM/Programs/Departments/CLASSICS/FirstSteps/Les

sons.htm

Wheelock's Latin Grammar by Frederic M. Wheelock (One of the most-used

college-level Latin texts, it will tie in closely with a number of on-line

Latin lesson plans and excercises)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0064671798/thevikinganswerl/

Workbook for Wheelock's Latin Grammar with Answer Key by Paul D. Comeau

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0064671712/thevikinganswerl/

Teach Yourself Latin by Gavin Betts (Self-Study Book with the Answers in

the Back)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0844238112/thevikinganswerl/

Latin: an Intensive Course (A Self-Study Text) by Robert Fleischer

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0520031830/thevikinganswerl/

Latina Pro Populo by Alexander and Nicholas Humez (Learn Latin with Humor)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0316381497/thevikinganswerl/

Latin for Americans, Book I by B.L. Ullman (This is the book I used in high

school)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0026409127/thevikinganswerl/

Medieval Latin Sources, Articles and Texts

http://latin.miningco.com/msub21.htm?pid=2785&;cob=home

Bennet's New Latin Grammar by Charles E. Bennett

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0062720171/thevikinganswerl/

Cambridge Latin Course Unit 1 by Ed Phinney

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0521343798/thevikinganswerl/

Cambridge Latin Course Unit 2 by Ed Phinney

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=052134381X/thevikinganswerl/

Ecce Romani Set, Books 1-2 for Younger Latin Students by David M. Tafe

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0801304393/thevikinganswerl/

Ecce Romani Set, Books 3-4 for Younger Latin Students by Gilbert Lawall

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0801304407/thevikinganswerl/

Jenney's First Year Latin by Charles Jenney (A classic for 40 years)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=020508723X/thevikinganswerl/

Jenney's Third Year Latin by Charles Jenney (A classic for 40 years)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0205079563/thevikinganswerl/

Graphic Latin Grammar Reference Cards (Order Set of Four)

http://www.bolchazy.com/cat/graphic.html

Learn Latin (Order the Book)

http://www.commonreader.com/0/0453.html

[A teach-yourself Latin text.]

LATIN TRANSLATIONS:

Tufts' University Perseus Project -- Latin Texts and English Translations

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/latin_TOC.html

[Includes works by Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Hirtius, Horace, Livy, Ovid,

Plautus, Servius and Vergil]

University of Oregon's Text of Vergil's Aeneid

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joelja/aeneid.html

LATIN DICTIONARIES AND PARSERS:

Tufts' University Perseus Project -- English to Latin Word-Search Tool

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/enggreek?lang=Latin&;type=exact&corpus=R

oman&author=*Roman

Digital Latin Lexicon - 15,000 Words from Cassell's Latin Dictionary

http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~barrette/lexicon.html

The Hard Little Words: Prepositions, Adverbs, Conjunctions (With Some

Definitions of Medieval Usage)

http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/classics203/resources/latin.lex

Latin Dictionary Search Tool

http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.pl

[Input the Latin word to get back an English equivalent. Based on about

17000 and their various endings. Especially useful as it will find words

no matter what their ending, unlike a standard dictionary where you have to

know the nominative form for nouns and the 1st person sigular form for

verbs.]

Notre Dame Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid Search Tool

http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm

[Latin to English, separate entry fields for word stem and ending]

A Latin Dictionary for the Works of Saxo Grammaticus

http://www.rostra.dk/latin/saxo.html

[Saxo wrote "Gesta Danorum" an early history of the Danes including quite a

bit of Viking myth and legend. The Latin here will all be medieval Latin,

not classical Roman Latin.]

Latin Grammar and Vocabulary Help for use with Wheelock's Latin Text

http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/gr-helps.html

The Humanists Latin Dictionary by William Harris, PhD

http://www.centaursystems.com/x_hld.html

[A downloadable Latin translation program demo. Can be quite useful to the

Latin student.]

LATIN GRAMMAR:

Grammar Aid - What Do All Those Grammatical Terms Mean, Anyway?

http://georgetown.edu/irvinemj/classics203/resources/latgramm.aid

[If you don't know nominative from numerical, preposition from predicate,

this is a guide showing English examples of these constructions to make

learning Latin grammar easier.]

Latin Grammar (Ohio Stat University)

http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~econrad/lang/latin.html

Allen and Greenough Latin Grammar (Tufts University)

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=ag+gram.+toc

The Intelligent Person's Guide to Latin Grammar

http://www.middlebury.edu/~harris/Classics/LatinGrammarI.html

Situs Grammaticus - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Latin Endings

But Were Afraid to Ask

http://latin.miningco.com/library/blending.htm?pid=2785&;cob=home

Latin Grammar FAQ

http://latin.miningco.com/library/blending.htm?pid=2785&;cob=home

Notre Dame Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid Search Tool

http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm

[Latin to English, separate entry fields for word stem and ending]

Latin Grammar and Vocabulary Help for use with Wheelock's Latin Text

http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/gr-helps.html

Baylor University Study Aid for Learning Beginning Latin

http://diogenes.baylor.edu/WWWproviders/thorburn/latinqnahypertext.html

Ludus Antiquae Romae

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9183/

Mnemonic Devices for the Latin Classroom

http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Anthology/Pav/Classics/Mnemonics.html

[Ways to remember all those difficult grammar rules!]