![]() I will add to this list from time to time, and I will also post revised PDF versions of it on the sidebar (opposite). Here is an initial listing of classroom teaching quotes or “memory joggers” that are helpful over the entire course of Latin language study. Interested in taking a “live, interactive” online Latin class? Take the POLL here! For a 7-page PDF of the same, click here or download either from the sidebar (opposite). The above paradigm reflects the last screen of a multiple click-through PowerPoint presentation of all four Latin Verb Conjugations. Right-click on image to save to your desktop. “- ba-” for the Imperfect, or “- v-” for the Perfect, etc.), one can readily see the relationships, the constants and the variables that exist within the entire verbs formation paradigm, below. Thanks to one of my former language instructors, I can offer you what I think works for almost any language to help promote memory work of structures via paradigms-in this case, Latin Indicative Verb formations in the “active” and “passive” voices.īuilt upon a “ numbering” system for verb endings, coupled with the “stem” (or “base” quality) of model verbs representative of all four Latin Indicative Mode (or Mood) verb conjugations, with the various tenses (other than the Present tense) governed by “tense signs” (e.g. Over many years as a New Testament Greek language instructor, and in more recent years Latin, my observation has been that many students have tried, in a sense, to “re-invent the wheel” when it comes to memory systems or paradigms for these ancient verbs, nouns, participles and the like. Based on my prior study of and longevity teaching another “inflected” language (Koiné Greek) that has many close structural parallels with Latin, it has long been my belief that students of beginning Latin grammar seek a systematic way to study and retain the structural elements of the various grammatical components of the language.
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