Instrumenta (Tools)

Grammar

Latintutorial.com: scores and scores of short videos on specific morphological and syntactical topics.

Allen & Greenough Latin Grammar via Dickinson College Commentaries: with this digital version of that perennially useful tool, Allen and Greenough’s New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges (1903), you can find entries for specific morphological or syntactical elements, or search the entire grammar.

Practice and Drill

Magistrula.com: provide students and teachers with innovative, flexible, interactive tools for Latin language learning. Users can play Latin learning games, practice paradigms, drill forms, and even generate and check simple sentences based on targeted syntax. A most excellent site on which to exercise the grammatical foundations of your Latin.

Quizlet.com: will need no introduction for most, since it is already used regularly by half of high school students and over a third of those in college. Hone and check your knowledge of Latin forms and concepts using flashcards and various games, or make your own sets!

Cerego.com: another flashcard program, like Quizlet. But Cerego uses a personalized mnemonic algorithm to bring items back for review at the time that is most optimal for building durable memories.

Vocabulary

The Bridge (bridge.haverford.edu): The Bridge enables students and instructors to generate customized vocabulary lists from its database of Greek and Latin textbooks and texts. Users can generate whole vocabularies or focus on a selection of a list or work and also customize their lists to take into account textbooks that they have used, core lists they have mastered, and texts they have already read. These lists can then be filtered to focus on one or more parts of speech, among other options, and then printed or downloaded in a variety of formats.

Logeion (logeion.uchicago.edu): Logeion (literally, a place for words; in particular, a speaker’s platform, or an archive) gives you simultaneous access to some of the very best dictionaries for studying Latin, including Lewis and Short, DuCange, and LaNe, as well as helpful frequency and proximity information.

Meter

The Rhythm of Latin Poetry: a quick, two-page introduction to Latin meter.

DCC Tutorial (dcc.dickinson.edu/ovid-amores/scansion): basics about ProsodyElision, The Elegiac Couplet, and Reading Aloud  present via text and short tutorial video.

Allen & Greenough: for a deeper dive into Latin metrics, from vowel quantity to particular meters, peruse Allen & Greenough §602-629.

LatinTutorial (latintutorial.com): has a helpful video on how Latin creates syllables, short and long.

Hexameter.co (hexameter.co): this site offers adaptive lines that grow in difficulty as your skill grows, and instant feedback so you’ll know whether you’ve made a mistake or not. There are also ample statistics, charts, badges, and many more features so you can track your progress and feel good about yourself along the way.

Rhythmic Fluency Podcast (magisterp.com/rhythmicfluency): this podcast (embedded at the site) leads you diligently through scanning a variety of meters.

Rhythmic Fluency Podcast: Hendecasyllable

Rhythmic Fluency Podcast: Hexameter

Rhythmic Fluency Podcast: Choliambic/Scazon/Limping Iambics

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