Predicate nominatives

I received this question: My specific question is from Visual Latin 1, Lesson 25B number 20. In the sentence “Hic homo rex bonus est.”, why is the word for king in the nominative form “rex”? Why is it not the accusative “regem”? Here is...

Visual Latin and Lingua Latina?

I received this question: My daughter is taking your visual Latin year one. According to the syllabus, it says that in lesson 10 to start reading one chapter in lingua Latina every two visual Latin lessons. Would you please describe what this looks like or give me an...

Second Year Latin Test 1 is up.

Even though John Gotto wrote this, “Who wouldn’t get bored teaching students who are rude and interested only in grades?” and even though I agree with him, what am I to do? Incidentally, I don’t deal with very many rude students.  But on a daily...

Not all English words come from Latin…

Many of my students often have the misconception that all languages, including English, come from Latin. Nope.  Not true.  A lot of languages come from Latin, but English is not one of them.  English is a Germanic language. We have borrowed a ton of vocabulary from...

The Roman Villa

In Lingua Latina class today, we learned about the ancient Roman villa. Here are some videos/virtual tours of typical Roman villas of the first century A.D. (One of my students found these.  Thanks, Julia!) This first one is my personal favorite: A cut-away view: A...