The Latin Tamer Online

Welcome to the Latin language! This site provides tools for anyone learning to read the Romans. It’s especially meant as a companion to The Latin Tamer, a book that explains how to read Latin. But you can enjoy everything that's here whether you have the book or not.

The Latin Tamer, and this website, teach Latin through lots of little examples of it. Every point—every way a word can end—is illustrated with a quotation. The examples are all short and completely explained on the spot. You’re reading the ancients right away and you’ve always got a coach. This makes Latin more fun and interesting for some people to learn. Perhaps you’ll be among them!

Here’s what this site contains, via clickable headings:

Chapters from The Latin Tamer. A preface that explains the project, a guide to the illustrations if you’re a beginner, and some extras.
Illustrations from The Latin Tamer. All the illustrations from the book, but with more features: you can hear the words spoken, touch or click on them to see their meanings, hide or show the translations and notes, etc.
Exercises. Exercises in the same format as the illustrations, but with missing words to fill in. You make the words appear by clicking or touching the blanks.
Vocabulary. Entries on hundreds of words in Latin Tamer format—plus searchable access to explained illustrations of more than ten thousand others.
Latin for Stoics. Full-length passages on Stoicism in Latin Tamer format.
Passages from Horace.
Passages from Lucretius.
Passages from Virgil.
Montaigne’s Latin.
Credits.

Comments and corrections are gratefully received here.