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Created byBen Lugosch

Last updated 9/2020

English

What you'll learn

A secure foundation for your future study of Latin

Course content

17 sections • 73 lectures • 10h 11m total length

Course Introduction4:11

Welcome!
We continue our work through the venerable Wheelock Latin text, Chapters 16-30, which is roughly the second semester of a college-level class, or a second year in high school.
I've created a series of lectures and downloadable study forms to help you keep on track.
You'll find nothing on this site that violates any of Wheelock's copyrighted materials, and that includes an answer key.
If you'd like to join one of my online classes of elementary to intermediate Latin, do contact me and we'll see what we can do to get you in.
Good luck!

Chapter 16 Lecture21:02

Summary
Third declension adjectives are just adjectives which use the third declension pattern of case endings. They don't modify only third declension nouns, any more than adjectives of the first and second declension can modify only nouns of the first and second declension. The ablative singular of the M/F gender constitutes the only departure from the standard i-stem third declension: it's -ī- rather than the expected -e-.
Third declension adjectives come in three categories: one, two or three terminations. As you'll see, this distinction applies only to the nominative singular.
Chapter 16: Downloadable Vocabulary Review Sheet3:00
Use this form to focus your study of the chapter vocabulary.
Chapter 16: Forms and Concepts4:00
Use this form to review your understanding the main points of this chapter's grammar.
Chapter 16: Reading of Self-Tutorial Sentences5:05
Practice your pronunciation as you study these sentences.
Chapter 16: Discussion of Self-Tutorials13:04
The Self-Tutorials are an invaluable resource to help you master the material.

Chapter 17: Lecture26:01

Summary
The relative pronoun acts like a subordinating conjunction, attaching an adjectival clause to something in the main clause of the sentence. As a pronoun, it agrees in number and gender with what it's pointing to, and gets its case from the way it's being used in its own clause.
Chapter 17: Vocabulary Review Sheet3:00
Downloadable form to help you study and review the chapter vocabulary.
Chapter 17: Forms and Concepts2:00
Downloadable form to help you study and review the chapter's new forms and new concepts.
Chapter 17: Self-Tutorial Sentences Read7:18
Reading of the sentences in the chapter's self-tutorial exercises.
Chapter 17: Self-Tutorials Discussed10:43
A brief introduction to the self-tutorials for this chapter.

Chapter 18: Lecture21:07

Summary
The passive voice indicates that the subject of a verb is receiving, rather than performing the action. In the present system of tenses in Latin, the passive voice is formed by replacing the active endings with the passive endings.
Chapter 18: Vocabulary Review Sheet3:00
Downloadable form to help you study and review the chapter vocabulary.
Chapter 18: Forms and Concepts4:00
Downloadable form to help you study and review the chapter forms and concepts.
Chapter 18: Self-Tutorial Sentences Read9:16
Reading of the self-tutorial sentences for your practice.
Chapter 18: Self-Tutorials Discussion12:07
Discussion of the self-tutorial exercises.

Chapter 19: Perfect System Passive18:42
Summary

The perfect system passive is formed from the fourth principal part of the verb with a conjugated form of the verb "sum" to indicate tense, person and number. The fourth principal part of a verb can also be called the "perfect passive participle." A participle is a verbal adjective, and hence will have a variable ending to allow it to agree with the noun that it is modifying.
Chapter 19: Interrogative Adjective and Pronoun13:59
Summary

Interrogative adjectives modify nouns in such as way as to ask a questions about them; interrogative pronouns ask a question about something that has been left out. Adjective: "What book are you reading?" Pronoun: "What are you reading?" The forms of the interrogative adjective are identical to those of the relative pronoun. The forms of the interrogative pronoun differ from the relative pronoun only in a few forms in the singular.
Chapter 19: Vocabulary Sheet3:00
Chapter 19: Forms and Concepts4:00
Chapter 19: Self-Tutorial Sentences Read6:02
Chapter 19: Self-Tutorials Discussed10:57

Chapter 20: Lecture18:27

Summary

The theme vowel of fourth declension nouns is -ū-; like the third declension, it includes nouns of all three genders, though masculine is predominant.
Chapter 20: Vocabulary3:00
A convenient way to keep and study the vocabulary for chapter 20. Also, this link will take you to the Quia flashcard drills.
Chapter 20: Forms and Concepts2:00
A little music to study by . . . Hope you enjoy it!
Chapter 20: Self-Tutorials Read and Discussed8:09

Chapter 23: Lecture 1, Forms of Participles23:43

Summary

A participle is a verbal adjective and has tense, voice, number, gender, and case. Latin has four participles, as seen in this paradigm:

The tense of the participle is relative to the tense of the main verb. Translating participles properly often requires promoting them to subordinate clauses or compressing them to a noun.
Chapter 23: Participles, Lecture 2, Translation Strategies34:34
Summary

It is helpful to begin the process of translating a participle by thinking first of its most basic meaning.

The tense of the participle is relative to the tense of the main verb. Translating participles properly often requires promoting them to subordinate clauses or compressing them to a noun.
Chapter 23: Vocabulary3:00
Chapter 23: Forms and Concepts2:00
Chapter 23: Synopsis5:58

Now that you've acquired new verbal forms, it's time to update your synopsis sheets. This file talks you through a couple of synopses for practice. (Apologies in advance for the rather poor quality.)

I've included below a downloadable synopsis sheet if you'd like to have one. The two files are the same: one's in Word and the other is a PDF.
Chapter 23 Self Tutorials 1 of 226:04
Chapter 23 Self Tutorials (in 2 Parts)24:14

Chapter 24: Lecture29:56

Summary

The Ablative Absolute construction resembles the English absolute construction such as "that being said," or "all things being equal." These are participial phrases, with no finite verb, consisting of a noun or pronoun with a participle agreeing with it. As an "absolute," they stand outside of the grammar of the main clause of the sentence. In Latin, the pronoun or noun is in the ablative case and the participle agrees with it in number, gender, and case.

The Passive Periphrastic construction consists of the future passive participle used as a predicate, linked to the subject with a conjugated form of the verb "sum." It acquires an additional sense of obligation or necessity. The personal agent is expressed not with a/ab + ablative, but with the dative case alone.
Chapter 24: Vocabulary3:00
Chapter 24: Forms and Concepts2:00
Chapter 24 Self Tutorials Read3:21

Requirements

Wheelock's Latin Text, 6th edition or higher

Description

Welcome to part 2 of the bestselling Latin course on Udemy!

This course will pick up at Wheelock's chapter 16. Accordingly, it's not for true beginners in the language. A typical college-level class will cover chapters 16-30 in the second semester; a high school class will cover them in the second year. If you don't have a solid foundation already, you should start with chapters 1-15, and my lectures that provide help for them.

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 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. 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.

Best of luck to you! -bl

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Brief Course Introduction1 lecture • 4min

Chapter 16: Third Declension Adjectives5 lectures • 46min

Chapter 17: Relative Pronoun and Relative Clauses5 lectures • 49min

Chapter 18: Passive Voice in the Present System of 1st and 2nd Conjugation Verbs5 lectures • 50min

Chapter 19: Passive Voice of the Perfect System6 lectures • 57min

Chapter 20: Fourth Declension Nouns; Ablative of Separation4 lectures • 32min

Chapter 21: Third and Fourth Conjugations: Present System Passive4 lectures • 47min

Chapter 22: Fifth Declension and Summary of Ablatives4 lectures • 33min

Chapter 23: Participles7 lectures • 2hr

Chapter 24: Ablative Absolute and Passive Periphrastic4 lectures • 38min

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