Chapters from The Latin Tamer

If you have The Latin Tamer, it explains all you need to know to understand what you’ll find on this website. But the site is meant to be useful whether you have the book or not; so here you’ll find excerpts from the book that explain the idea behind the project, the conventions used in the illustrations, etc.

1. The preface to The Latin Tamer. An explanation of the concept and method behind the book and website.
2. Understanding the Explanations. How to make sense out of the “Details” that follow the illustrations in the book and on this site (from Chapters 3 and 4 of The Latin Tamer).
3. Pronunciation. Notes on how Latin was spoken (plus some material on the subject beyond what’s found in the book).
4. Sample chapter on the gerundive. A pdf of Chapter 41 from The Latin Tamer. It’s included here so you can see how a typical chapter looks and reads if you don’t have the book.