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What are tenses actually? This video covers the basic foundation of what makes up a tense, and relates it to the study of English and Latin.
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Latin's Perfect Tense is as regular as a high-fiber diet. This video investigates the way to form this tense, which is either a regular (simple) past tense (I ate), or a completed present (I have eaten). Once you know a verb's principal parts and the endings -ī, -istī, -it, -imus, -istis, -ērunt, the perfect is a breeze.
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The participle in Latin is exceptionally important, even more so than it is in English. This video reviews the four participles of a standard verb: the present active, perfect passive, future active, and future passive (the gerundive), along with discussing how deponent verbs form their four participles.
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Latin is easy once you overcome the first major hurdle: the difference between the nominative and accusative cases. Yes, Latin words change their endings! But this very fact makes Latin easier to understand - you know, once you understand it. And on the very basic level, most of Latin boils down to subjects (nominatives), objects (accusatives) and verbs.
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One of the most important and common of the tenses in Latin, the Imperfect Tense is more or less easy to recognize and form. This video covers its translation and formation so that any Latin student will be able to take a Latin verb and put it into the imperfect tense.
Before you begin to learn Latin, it's probably best to review some of the more basic concepts of grammar in English. This video covers the more difficult parts of grammar to understand: transitive, intransitive, and linking verbs, and subjects and direct objects. (N.B., there is a typo at 6:20, controler = controller. It must have been my French.)
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Found buried in the ruins of Pompeii is a bit of graffiti with some magic to it. In this square, you can read forwards, backwards, up, or down, and still get the same message. But along with that is a hidden message of Christianity.
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Seize the day and learn how to conjugate your Latin verb in the present tense. This video covers the present conjugation from start to finish for all conjugations.
Where did Roman numerals come from? This video investigates this question and gives the current accepted theory. Hint: it's all Etruscan, baby.
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This may be the first thing you ever learned with Latin, and the first is always the best. This video covers the declension of first declension nouns, how they are translated, and other peculiar features of the a declension.
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