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Wheelock's Latin : Chapters 1-15 Lectures

Name: Wheelock's Latin : Chapters 1-15 Lectures
Rating: 4.5 (1431 reviews)

Help for beginning students using the venerable Wheelock grammar book.

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Created byBen Lugosch

Last updated 9/2020

English

What you'll learn

A thorough mastery of elementary Latin grammar
Additional insight into English grammar and vocabulary

Course content

17 sections • 88 lectures • 15h 0m total length

Notes on the Sound of Classical Latin19:36

Summary

We don't know exactly how classical Latin would have been pronounced, but some conjectures are better than others. In this lecture, I quickly go over the basic agreements of reconstructed classical Latin. You may wonder why we should bother. It's a dead language. True, but trying to pronounce the Latin in front of you really does speed up your mastery. And conversely, over the years I've discovered the truism that those who don't pronounce Latin out loud don't learn it. Fact.
Adding Long Marks over Vowels in Word Quickly2:35
How to Learn Latin (or anything else!)14:55

Tips on establishing a healthy study routine (i.e. how not to waste time). Sorry about the noise at the beginning. I was adjusting the mic.

Class 01: 1st and 2nd Conjugation Verbs (1 of 2)24:25

Summary

Latin verbs change their person and number by adding suffixes to the stem. These suffixes correspond to English personal pronouns. Verbs can also show commands and infinitives by changing the ending.

Latin verbs are divided into conjugations depending on the vowel that ends the verbal stem. A verb whose stem ends in ā is a first conjugation verb; a verb whose stem ends in ē is a second conjugation verb.
Chapter 01: 1st and 2nd Conjugation Verbs (2 of 2)36:24
Chapter 01: Additional Review of Verbs (if you think you need it)11:26
I'm keeping up this very old lecture from when I was teaching Latin as a little extra practice if you think you need it. -bl
Chapter 01 : Review Sheet for Forms and Concepts3:00
The "Forms and Concepts" file for each chapter helps you get a clear idea of what's been covered in the chapter: new forms and new concepts. As you record your new forms, be sure that you include all long marks. Express the new concepts and terms in your own words. These two together -- forms and concepts -- will provide you an invaluable resource for drilling and for reviewing.
Chpater 01 : Self-Tutorial Sentences Read Aloud2:44
I read through the sentences from the Optional Self Tutorials so you can get more experience pronouncing Latin. The file has just the audio. You'll want to follow along in the book.
Class 6 Discussion of Self-Tutorial Exercise15:57
There is a comprehensive, chapter-by-chapter set of exercises at the end of the book called "Self-Help Tutorials." These excellent drills give you the chance to review and test your knowledge of the chapter material, and yet many student skip over them.
In my lectures on the Self-Tutorials, I help you get started in the exercises my reviewing the major concepts of the chapter and doing a couple of the sentences for you. Please don't hurry through these chapter reviews or pass them by altogether. They are time very well spent.

Class 1: Second Declension15:36

Summary
Class 2: More about Adjectives5:51
More about nouns and adjectives: agreement.
Class 3: Review of New Material8:42

Summary

Case endings give Latin a very flexible word order by our standards. Generally, however, a Latin sentence will be constructed thus: Subject -- Object -- Verb.
Class 4: Review Sheet2:00
Review of second declension nouns and endings.
Class 5: Vocabulary Sheet3:00
Review sheet for the new vocabulary.
Class 6: Discussion of Self-Tutorial Exercises22:05
Class 7: Self-Tutorial Sentences Read4:36

Class 1: Second Declension Neuters16:20

Summary
Class 2: The Verb "To be" Conjugated6:18

Summary

sum
es
est

sumus
estis
sunt

esse
Class 3: "To Be"5:37

Summary

A word in the nominative case need not be the subject of a verb. It may be linked to the subject via a linking (aka, copulative) verb, such as "to be." A nominative thus used is called a "predicate nominative."
Class 4: Substantival Use of Adjectives4:16

Summary

As in English, an adjective in Latin may be used as a noun: the wealthy, the poor, etc. When used thus, the syntax is called a "substantive" use of an adjective, or we may say that the adjective is being used as a substantive.
Class 5: Review Sheet3:00
Review of neuters, "sum, esse," predicate nominatives, and substantival use of adjectives.
Class 6: Vocabulary Sheet3:00
Review of new vocabulary.
Chapter 04: Self-Tutorial Discussion7:26
Chapter 04: Self-Tutorial Sentences Read4:24

Class 1: Future and Imperfect Tenses24:11
The Imperfect and Future Tenses
Class 2: Adjectives in -er11:19

Summary

Just as there are nouns belonging to the second declension whose nominative ends in -er, so also there are first and second declension adjectives that use the -er termination in the masculine nominative singular.
Class 3: Review Sheet3:00
Review of future, imperfect, adjectives in -er, -a, -um
Class 4: Vocabulary Sheet3:00
Review of new vocabulary
Chapter 05: Self-Tutorial Discussion8:17
Chapter 05: Self-Tutorial Sentences Read4:17

Requirements

The Wheelock textbook (6th or 7th edition)

Description

Welcome to the bestselling Latin course on Udemy!

Over the years of teaching Latin from the excellent and justly renowned textbook "Wheelock's Latin," I have created a series of lectures designed to help students to learn Latin online and get the most of this magnificent book. In them you will find guidance to some of the more perplexing concepts of grammar -- English and Latin -- that often comprise an insuperable barrier to progressing in Latin for modern-day students.

My lectures therefore have double-duty. They review the concepts of English grammar when you need them, and theyu help you understand how they can be applied to Latin grammar. You’ll also find guidance to the extremely useful self-tutorial exercises in the back of the Wheelock book for each chapter. Finally, I provide a complete description of how the sound of classical, silver-age Latin by modern academia.

The lectures will not replace the Wheelock text. They will only, I hope, make your on-ramp smoother. To that end, the lectures track exactly with the chapters of the textbook. This will give you context sensitive help when you need it.

You will not find answers to the exercises or anything that is copyright protected by the publisher of the Wheelock book. To get any benefit from these lectures, you must have the Wheelock text.

When you’ve completed the series on the Wheelock, you may wish to check out my detailed readings and discussion of the revered Fabulae Faciles, a set of graded readers designed to help readers move from elementary Latin grammar to intermediate prose.

Finally, I also have two complete classes on the texts used by the American AP Latin exams. They’ll be very useful for student preparing for the exams, or for advanced readers who wish to start in on Vergil’s Aeneid and Caesar’s Gallic Wars.

Best of luck to you!

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Who this course is for:

Autodidacts and/or homeschoolers
College or high school students in a traditional academic setting who need a little extra help.
Students in a traditional academic setting who need a little extra help

Wheelock's Latin : Chapters 1-15 Lectures

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First Things3 lectures • 37min

Chapter 1: The Basics of Verbs; The First Conjugation6 lectures • 1hr 34min

Chapter 2: Nouns, Cases, and the First Declension4 lectures • 1hr 19min

Chapter 3: The Second Declension; More about Adjectives; Apposition; a Note about Word Order7 lectures • 1hr 2min

Chapter 4: Second Declension Neuters; Adjectives; Present of Sum; Predicate Nominatives; Substantives8 lectures • 50min

Chapter 5: First and Second Conjugations: Future and Imperfect; Adjectives in - er6 lectures • 54min

Chapter 6: Sum and Possum; Complementary Infinitive5 lectures • 38min

Chapter 7: Third Declension Nouns5 lectures • 48min

Chapter 8: Third Conjugation: Present System5 lectures • 1hr 12min

Chapter 9: Demonstratives Hic, Ille, Iste; Special - īus Adjectives5 lectures • 1hr 3min

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