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" Example before the rule" is a great principle of language learning. Viva voce methods save time, rules are grasped more quickly. Systematic use of viva voce Latin leads to rapidly gaining the required intuitive familiarity with Latin sentence construction, and the learning of correct vowel quantity from the beginning. Vocabulary is learned in a more natural way. The intention is to use the resources offered here to get good enough to actually get to think in the language, to live in it. This is the Renaissance Method.

The recorded lessons from Adler's Textbook, " A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language" form the core of the podcast. Adler's book can be downloaded for free from Google Books, who especially re-scanned this important textbook for us.


Vale.

Evan Millner
London


Many thanks to the following individuals and organisations for appearing (listed in no particular order) on this Podcast:
The Cambridge University Press;
The University of Canterbury, New Zealand;
University of California, Los Angeles;
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles;
Swarthmore College, Department of Classics;
Stephen Daitz (Sorgll);
Robert Sonkowsky (Sorgll);
Wakefield Foster (Sorgll);
ISTA;
Jeroen de Ost;
Cantantor;
Lucio Amadeo Ranierio;
Lorna Robinson, Iris Project;
Ruben Sitto;
Hefyd;
Melissa Foundation;
Charles Umiker;
Iohannes Alatius;
Brad Walton;
Charlie McNamara.

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Vocabulary Building:
Nouns substantive used in GCSE Latin, all tiers, introduced in the form of "This thing"
In case these pronouns are not yet familiar, here is the declension of the nominative and genitive of this and these.

Hic - masculine
Haec - feminine
Hoc - neuter
Hujus - genitive
HI - masc. plural
HAE - fem plural
HAEC - neut plural
horum - masc gen. plural
harum - fem gen plural
horum - neut plural

Note on pronunciation. Hic haec and hoc should have a double c before a vowel.

However, in the vocab list recited here, I have only given a single c, to make the form of the nouns substantive clearer for a beginner.
A Roman would have said Hoc Cest instead of hoc est, and haec Carbor, not haec arbor. When you are saying these yourself, you might want to try doing this.
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Vocabulary Building: Latin
200 verbs given in the infinitive form. These are suitable for foundation and higher levels.

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Vocabulary Building: Latin
200 verbs given in the first person present indicative. i.e. I love, I call, I wound, etc.

These are for both higher and foundation level students.

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Vocabulary Building:
GCSE - some basic vocabulary for GCSE Latin.

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Opening the Tomb:

“For fully two centuries the humanists acted as if Latin were, and must remain, the only language worthy to be written.” Their purified version of Latin spread beyond Italy to become the language of the nascent Republic of Letters all across Europe. But in time, the modernizing spirit that the Renaissance let loose came to see Latin itself as archaic and outmoded. Even as the Neo-Latinists were writing works they hoped would last forever, the modern European languages began to produce their own classics: Rabelais and Montaigne, Shakespeare and Cervantes. Today, it is these vernacular writers whom we read in order to taste the spirit of the Renaissance, and not Latin masters like Angelo Poliziano, Leonardo Bruni, and Leon Battista Alberti. The Neo-Latinists thought they were putting their works into a time capsule; in fact, it turned out to be a tomb."

So, get on with your Latin lessons here on Latinum, and help the world re-open that tomb. All these wonderful books written in the renaissance are once again easily accessible through Google Books.

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