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I taught Latin and English for 30 years in Public and Private high schools. After retirement, I began to teach Latin in my home on both the elementary and secondary levels. I use a variety of Latin texts and incorporate scripture from St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate into my curriculum. Presently I am teaching students in my home who live in the South Carolina Low Country, but I welcome online students, as well.
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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Latin conversation

adjective--------------------------------------adjectivum

afternoon ------------------------------------postmeridianum
again ------------------------------------------iterum
adverb ----------------------------------------adverbium
answer ---------------------------------------responde (respondete)
You have answered correctly --------recte respondisti (respondistis)
Pay attention ------------------------------attende (attendite)  
begin------------------------------------------incipe (incipite)
Begin to read------------------------------incipe (incipite) legere
Write on the board----------------------scribe in tabula
book------------------------------------------liber
Close your books------------------------libros claude (claudite)
open your books-------------------------libros aperi (aperite)
Lay aside your book--------------------depone librum (deponite libros)   Case                                                            Casus
nominative                                                       nominativus genitive                                                            genitivus dative                                                               dativus accusative                                                        accusativus ablative                                                             ablativus  

In what case is the noun?----------------In quo casu est nomen?
ceiling--------------------------------------------tectum –i
chapter-------------------------------------------caput
chair-----------------------------------------------sella
Christmas---------------------------------------Christi dies natalis
clock----------------------------------------------horologium
close----------------------------------------------claude (claudite)
what conjugation?----------------------------Quae conjugatio?  
What declension?----------------------------quae declinatio?
Door------------------------------------------------ianua  
English-------------------------------------------Anglica
in English---------------------------------------Anglice
Answer in English--------------------------Responde (respondete) Anglice  
floor----------------------------------------------solum  
gender                                          genus
masculine                                     masculinum feminine                                       femininum neuter                                          neutrum

Of what gender is the noun?-----------------cuius generis est nomen?
good--------------------------------------------------Bene
Goodbye--------------------------------------------vale (valete)
grade-------------------------------------------------gradus  
hall----------------------------------------------------atrium –i
hour---------------------------------------------------hora
how are you---------------------------------------Quid agis?  
interjection------------------------------------------interiectio  
I know------------------------------------------------scio
I don’t know---------------------------------------nescio  
answer in Latin----------------------------------responde Latine
read in Latin--------------------------------------lege (legite) Latine
read the next sentence in Latin-----------lege  Latine
Let’s talk Latin-----------------------------------Latine colloquamur
Listen------------------------------------------------audi
look at the board------------------------------ad tabulam specta (spectate)
Speak louder-------------------------------------clarius loquere  
what is the matter-----------------------------quid est?
what does _________ mean?-------------quid significat ___________?
good morning------------------------------------salve (salvete)  
name------------------------------------------------nomen
no-----------------------------------------------------minime
noon-------------------------------------------------meridies
notebook-------------------------------------------libellus  
object-----------------------------------------------objectivum  
page-------------------------------------------------pagina
do you have a pencil?-------------------------habesne graphidem
paper------------------------------------------------charta
pen---------------------------------------------------penna
person----------------------------------------------persona
picture----------------------------------------------pictura
please----------------------------------------------Quaeso
preposition---------------------------------------praepositio
pronoun
personal                                personale  
possessive                            possessivum  
demonstrative                        demonstrativum  
intensive                                intentivum

pupil-------------------------------------------------discipulus
put---------------------------------------------------pone (ponite  
Questions----------------------------------------interrogationes  
read------------------------------------------------lege
read more slowly-----------------------------lentius recita
recite---------------------------------------------recita (recitate)
remember this--------------------------------hoc memoria tene (tenete)
I don’t remember----------------------------memoria non teneo
repeat-------------------------------------------repete
review this lesson--------------------------hoc persum relege (relegite)
room--------------------------------------------cubiculum
All say it together--------------------------una voce recitates
What did you say?------------------------quid dixisti
school------------------------------------------schola
sentence--------------------------------------sententia
stop---------------------------------------------siste
story--------------------------------------------fabula
what is the subject------------------------quid est subiectum  
table---------------------------------------------mensa
teacher-----------------------------------------m. magister f. magistra
in what tense is the verb?---------------in quo tempore est verbum
Thank you-------------------------------------Gratias ago
Thanksgiving day---------------------------Dies gratiarum agendarum
what time is it?------------------------------quota hora est
today--------------------------------------------hodie
tomorrow--------------------------------------cras  
Do you  understand?----------------------intelligisne  
verb                                    verbum
transitive                                  transitivum  
intransitive                                intransitivum

look in your vocabulary----------------------vocabularium consule  
wall--------------------------------------------------murus
what?-----------------------------------------------quid?
when?-----------------------------------------------quo in tempore?
Where?----------------------------------------------ubi
who?--------------------------------------------------quis
whom?-----------------------------------------------quem?
by whom?------------------------------------------a quo?
with whom?----------------------------------------quocum?
whose?----------------------------------------------cuius?
why?--------------------------------------------------cur?
To whom?-------------------------------------------cui?
window-----------------------------------------------fenestra
work---------------------------------------------------labor
write---------------------------------------------------scribe
write on the board--------------------------------scribe in tabula  
yes-----------------------------------------------------ita, sic
yesterday--------------------------------------------heri          




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