New First Steps in Latin
Overview
New First Steps in Latin provides a basic introduction for students new to Latin. The text offers first-year instruction on Latin verbs, nouns, adjectives, and prepositions. This includes verbal conjugations 1–4, the active and passive voice in verbs, noun declensions 1–5, and simple sentences. The substantial appendix includes practice readings, a grammatical catechism, sentence diagramming, vocabulary lists, tables, and both Latin-English and English-Latin glossaries.
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- Provides foundational lessons on Latin grammar
- Enhances contextual learning through reading Latin texts
- Presents Latin for beginning students
Top Highlights
“Verbs have person, number, tense, mood, and voice.” (Page 2)
“Nouns whose genitive singular ends in -ī belong to the second declension.” (Page 16)
“The imperfect tense expresses continuous or repeated action in past time” (Page 4)
“First Conjugation verb, remove -re from the second principal part.” (Page 2)
“The perfect tense expresses completed action in past time” (Page 6)
Michael Klaassen is an instructor at the Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania.