1. Latin Basics

2. Clear Targets
Students will identify differences between the English and Latin alphabets.
Students will pronounce Latin in the classical style.

3. First off…

4. History of Latin
Who?
Why?
Where?

5. Same Word? Latin - Pater Greek - Pater Sanskrit - Pitar German - Vader
English - Father

6. The Answer to Everything is…
PIE.
Proto-Indo-European

7. Alphabet Differences Animated
What English letters are missing from Latin?
What’s up with U, V, and W?

8. Pronouncing vowels “a” as in “father” “e” as in “pet”
“i” as in “elite”
“o” as in “dog” or “go”
“u” as in “you”
Long vowels vs. short vowels – ā, ē, ī, ō, ū
Diphthongs – two vowels pronounced as one
“ae” like “eye”
“au” like “ow”
“ei” like “reign”
“oe” like “oil”

9. Pronouncing consonants
Hard c’s and g’s
cat and gill, not pace or page
Double r’s
Currō
“v” to replace “w”
via
i to replace j
“Yuh” sound, not “juh”
If the word starts with “i” + a vowel (iam)
If the “i” is between two vowels (maiestas)

10. Practice canis cubiculī culīnae fīlius māter servī viae Germanus
Gaius Iulius Caesar

11. Vocab Flash Cards Optional: Cutting cards Color coding Derivatives
Not optional:
Making them
Putting all the info given
Front:
Back:

12. Stage 1 Vocab
Nouns: ātrium, ātrī, n. – atrium, reception hall canis, canis, m. – dog coquus, coquī, m. – cook, chef cubiculum, cubiculī, n. – bedroom culīna, culīnae, f. – kitchen fīlius, fīlī, m. – son hortus, hortī, m. – garden māter, mātris, f. – mother pater, patris, m. – father servus, servī, m. – slave tablīnum, tablīnī, n. – study, office triclīnium, triclīnī, n. – dining room via, viae, f. – street Verbs: sum, esse, fuī, futūrus – be labōrō, labōrāre, labōrāvī, labōrātus – work sedeō, sedēre, sēdī, sessūrus – sit Prepositions: in – in, on