Beginner's level Latin for Research ~ Schedule January 2025
Course schedule
All materials for the sessions are provided on the Materials and Assignments page.
Session 1 (13th January 2025, 17:00-18:30 UK time)
Preparation
- Study the material on Latin rules of reading and pronunciation
- Go through the list of Latin parts of speech
Lesson grammar
- Course overview: what to expect of this course and what is expected from you
- Noun basics: gender, number, declension, cases
- Verb basics: person, number, mood, tenses
- Sentence structure: subject and object, parts of speech in the sentence, usual word order (and why it can change)
Session 2 (14thJanuary 2025, 17:00-18:30 UK time)
Preparation
- Revise the material from the previous session
- Look through the grammar reference tables
Lesson grammar
- Cases and their key uses
- The paradigm of a noun; tips on identifying the noun form
- Basic verb forms and their key uses
- The paradigm of a verb; recognising verb forms; common irregular verbs
Session 3 (15thJanuary 2025, 17:00-18:30 UK time)
Preparation
- Revise the material from the previous session
- Study the vocabulary list of adjectives and prepositions
Lesson grammar
- Adjectives: declension, cases, comparison.
- Prepositions; expressions of time, place, and space
- Direct and indirect questions and commands
- Double Nominative and Accusative
Session 4 (16thJanuary 2025, 17:00-18:30 UK time)
Preparation
Revise the material on sentence structure and cases
Lesson grammar
- Clauses: relative, purpose, result and time
- Grammatical constructions: Accusative with Infinitive, Nominative with Infinitive
Session 5 (17thJanuary 2025, 17:00-18:30 UK time)
Preparation
Revise the material from the previous session and the use of cases
Lesson grammar
- Use of participles
- Grammatical constructions: Absolute Ablative
- Next steps: further learning (getting more complex grammar, acquiring vocabulary)