PEER REVIEW

Latin Vocabulary Tests with Clozemaster

Adam Bushashia has written to me, telling me all about the wonderful Latin study resource using Clozemaster he created.

Adam has constructed interactive study games that use the material in Adler's Practical Grammar of the Latin Language, to help you learn Latin online.

These are an excellent study tool to use alongside the Adler Latin Course.

This collection Adam created uses the material from here, the .txt version of Adler's Practical Grammar of the Latin Language created by Carolus Raeticus, and the associated Anki study set of the exercises.

https://www.clozemaster.com/languages/lat-eng/collections/278e81d9-2972-4f08-993c-2d8474d74e6f

How do the Cloze games work?

The games give a Latin sentence, with the corresponding English beneath. A word is missing in the Latin sentence. You can select multiple choice to select the missing word, or choose text input, to type in what you think the missing word may be.

Adam tells me he has created over 7,000 Cloze games in this series - more than enough to keep you very busy; I have had a look at them, and think they would make an excellent revision tool for learning and revising your Latin.

Learn Latin Online with Latinum

The Latinum Institute has produced a student level audio book of Corderius' famous scripted conversations, knows as the 'Colloquies'.

This text was one of the most frequently studied Latin workbooks for over 300 years. Teachers and students stopped using it when the craze for 'authentic' Latin swept the Latin teaching world in the mid 1800's. All 'artificial' Latin was thrown out of the schoolroom.

The result of this was a rapid and speedy decline in student fluency and ability in Latin, as no texts suitable for beginners have come down to us from Roman times; all the works we have are literary.

The 'fake' Latin that these schoolmasters and academicians found so objectionable were written as easy-access texts for beginners. The irony is that the renaissance teachers who created these texts, were deliberately trying to revive and create more materials that were similar to the few surviving student textbooks that have come down to us from ancient times, the so-called Hermeneumata.

These texts were simple dialogues and scenarios from day to day life, in simple Latin, aimed at very young students.

Corderius' dialogues are modelled after this fashion, and comprise scripted dialogues on a number of topics.

The Latinum Institute's audio version has these read in Latin and English phrase by phrase, and then a separate Latin only version.

Two editions of the text have been recorded, each one has subtle differences in idiom.

The Latinum Institute also offers a complete Latin Audio Course, the Adler Course.

Learn Latin Online with The Latinum Institute

Latinum offers a complete, comprehensive online Latin course, suitable for self study.

Latinum uses Patreon to distribute its materials.

The course is composed of multiple components - a complete audio course, based on Adler's Practical grammar of the Latin Language.

In addition, the course provides a large amount of material designed to help you increase your vocabulary in an enjoyable way.

An example of this is the fables of Aesop, read in Latin phrase by phrase in alternating English and Latin, followed by a repetition of the fable in Latin only. This system is used for a number of useful texts, including works by Comenius and Corderius, which are designed to introduce you to basic conversational patterns of speech and a useful range of basic vocabulary.