Word Spotlight #119: Malus

In a Latin class today, we talked about the word for bad, malus. From malus, English gets all kinds of bad words.  No.  Not that kind of bad words. The following English words trace their origins back to malus: Malice – the desire to do evil Malicious – intending to...

Diagramming Henle Latin: First Year Latin – Chapter One

If you have ever worked your way through the Henle Latin series, by Robert Henle, you know the author asks students to diagram sentences. The series was published around seventy years ago.  Back then, kids new how to diagram.  Schools still taught the skill.  These...

Visual Latin and the Latin Endings

From time to time I get questions about the complicated Latin endings.  Students want to know if there is a place to find them all.  Turns out, there is. If you go here, and scroll down, you will find some Latin charts I made some time ago.  The charts are free.  Here...