Showing posts with label Help with the textbook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Help with the textbook. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Highlights from 10/26: Useful links

As a follow-up to conversations I had with some of you after class and since we did a lot of reading today, I wanted to provide the following links:

Perseus Project Latin dictionary (The "Elementary Latin Dictionary" has shorter entries.)
Perseus Project morphological analysis*

University of Notre Dame Latin dictionary and grammar aid

Free Wheelock flashcards:
University of Victoria (under "Vocabulary" for each chapter)
ProProfs (student-created, have not used this website before)

Wheelock audio files

Have a great day!

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Regarding the vocabulary list in Wheelock

I will bring this up in class tomorrow, too, but I wanted to mention a couple of things about Wheelock's vocabulary list:

-The words in parentheses after each vocabulary entry are English derivatives meant to help you learn the Latin word (for example, admonish and admonition after the Latin word moneo).

-"lit." stands for literally. Amabo te literally means "I love you," but when the Romans used the phrase (unless they were talking to a loved one) it meant "please."