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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)