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Latin

Drills and Exercises for Oxford Latin Course

1. FLL Language Lab

a. Vocabulary

On the master screen, double-click on the icon “Latin Voc Drill 2.0 OLC 1-2” (for OLC chapters 1-25) or the icon “Latin Voc Drill 2.0 OLC 2-3” (for OLC chapters 26-54).

These programs offer you vocabulary drills from English to Latin and from Latin to English, with the possibility of asking for hints and printing out a scorecard. You may also want to take a look at the short essay entitled "Why Latin?".

 

b. Grammar

On the master screen, double-click on the icon “Latin Flash Drill 3.0 OLC.”

Here you find drills for the endings of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and verbs. The program also includes a useful reference guide on Latin grammar.

 

c. Pronunciation

  1. Get CD-ROM “Latin Now” from lab assistant
  2. Insert CD-ROM into CD-drive
  3. On the master screen, double-click on the icon “Language Now”
  4. Click on “Listen and Speak”
  5. Click on “Word Pronunciation” or “Sentence pronunciation”, respectively
  6. Select a title: choose “Latin for Beginners” (or any of the others) and click on “ok”
  7. Segment range: choose “Entire title” and click on “ok”
  8. You will hear a Latin word or sentence.
  9. Click on the microphone icon and hold it down for the entire thirty seconds: Repeat the word or sentence, speaking into the microphone (make sure the microphone is on “on”)
  10. Click on the lower loudspeaker icon to hear your recorded word or sentence
  11. (Click on the upper loudspeaker icon to hear the original again)
  12. Click on “Next” and continue
  13. To exit: Click on “File”  --> “Exit”


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