Rudímenta Latína
This is the most basic course offered by the
Schola
Rómáno-Latína, and serves as a first introduction to our
curriculum.
The main objective of the course is to start familiarisation with the
Latin language and its historical relevance as —in the words of the
textbook's author— "the world's most successful language".
This is a very general course, completely open to anyone, from those
with absolutely no previous knowledge of the language to those who have
learnt Latin in the past, or even those who are still learning it
elsewhere.
The textbook is Tore Janson, A Natural History of Latin,
translated and adapted into English by Merethe Damsgård Sørensen and
Nigel Vincent, Oxford University Press 2004 (x + 305 pp). The book is
easy to find, on-line and elsewhere.
This a book course, with no lessons. Students are meant to read and
study the set book on their own. The teacher will just provide some
notes and comments to the book, which must also be studied, and will of
course answer student queries through the different Q&R forums that will
be provided for each of the three parts the course is divided into.
There will be one exam at the end of the course.