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Latin for Research: Beginner's level intense short course - Schedule May 2025

12-16 May 2025, 5-6.30pm UK time. Tutor: Valeria Cesaraccio

Course schedule

Session 1 (12th May 2025,17:00-18:30 UK time)

  • Course overview and expectations; useful tools.
  • Rules of Latin pronunciation: consonants, vowels and quantity, stress.
  • Parts of speech and their general features.
  • Noun and adjective: case, gender and number, declensions.
  • Verb: mood and tense, active and passive, conjugations.
  • Word order and sentence structure.

Session 2 (13th May 2025, 17:00-18:30 UK time)

  • First two declensions.
  • The paradigm of a verb and how to use it.
  • Regular and irregular verbs.

  • Present, past and future of the indicative: general features and function.

  • Work on short sentences: recognize subject and object; identify the case.

Session 3 (14th May 2025,17:00-18:30 UK time)

  • Prepositions: how they work, what they express.
  • How to express time and space, cause and purpose.
  • Prepositions as prefixes in verbs (compound verbs).
  • Third declension: general features and how to find the nominative.

  • Subjunctive and its function.

  • Work on short sentences.

Session 4 (15th May 2025,17:00-18:30 UK time)

  • Fourth and fifth declensions.
  • Latin apophony: how it helps with compound verbs and third declension.
  • Coordinate and subordinate clause; conjunctions.
  • Subordinate clauses: how to express time, purpose, cause, result; use of cum; relatives.

  • Work on short texts: how to identify a main, a coordinate and a subordinate clause.

Session 5 (16th May 2025,17:00-18:30 UK time)

  • Vocative and imperative.

  • Direct and indirect questions.

  • Verbs: infinite and participle.
  • Infinitive clause and absolute ablative.

  • Work on short texts.

All materials for the sessions are provided on the Materials and Assignments page.