Roman Empire

To build on your background here are some websites and videos you could look at.
BBC - Romans
Roman Empire
The BBC have also had a series called What The Romans did for Us. The 5th Episode will be shown on BBC four on Monday at 19.30 GMT for those of you in England.

Declensions Song

Anyone out there struggling to remember which declension a word is may find this video helpful. Which has tips on how to recognise the declensions in the form of a song.
Sadly embedding is disabled so here's the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNlYWyaEbTQ

Translation Practice

As you have probably heard time and time again, practice will make you prefect. So today I have provided you with a website which generates a random Latin sentence and provides a translation so you can check your one.
So check out SCRIBAX for some more practice

If you need any help in for vocabulary, this is an online dictionary.

Online Dictionary

6 Months on...

I'm not sure if you were aware of this but this blog was born 6 months ago (November 2008) and since then it has been quite successful, I will let you see for yourselves.

Statistics:
Pageviews: 800+
Visitors- 500+ from 44 different coutries
Blog Posts- 36- And in the coming 6 months my aim will be to make these more regular and helpful.

The aim of this post is to thank all of you out there for being willing to Learn Latin- It's clearly not as dead as some people believe.

Snippets- Vocabulary, Context and more

Today's post has a number of snippets ranging from a link or two to a contextual PowerPoint and a vocabulary list to help those preparing for upcoming and vital exams.

Most importantly, the vocabulary lists:
Every day Latin- general phrases and the most common words that come up in texts, also Latin that is used today.
More Latin- again useful vocabulary that will make the exam easier.

Context:
The Growth of the Roman Empire

Links:
These will also be added to the useful links section of the website.
Latinum- a set of podcasts that are based on "A practical grammar of the Latin language" which can be downloaded here

Hopefully this will help both people with exams and those just learning Latin for fun :)

Roman Army

After a bit of an easter holiday I think everyone is fresh enough to start studying again.
Today's Contextual post is on the Roman army, the backbone of the empire and a set of military vocabulary as well.
Roman Army
Military Vocabulary

Latin Metre

To be able to read and analyse any Latin Literature, you need to be able to understand if not use latin metre so for todays (almost) contextual lesson/powerpoint we have (drum roll please)
An introduction to Latin Metre
So hopefull this will serve as an introduction, so that we can go on to look at some texts.

Note: from now on the posts may be a little more mixed, but will mostly include contextual information and of course some literature on the way.
The literature texts we will be looking at will be Pliny the Elder, Sempronia, Clodia and some others- which I havent decided about yet- sooo....
Until next time!

Temples

So continuing with the contextual resources todays post features a powerpoint on temples and looks at the styles, features and examples of them.
Great for the architecturally minded :)
Temples