Ebook: Pars I: Familia Romana

Lingua Latina is a complete immersion course providing Latin that students read and understand immediately. Every sentence is intelligible per se because the meaning and function of all new word forms is clear from the context, illustrations, or marginal notes throughout this carefully graded text.
Part 1 (Familia Romana) is the eventful and entertaining story of a Roman family, which also serves as an introduction to the life and culture of ancient Rome.
Students first learn grammar and vocabulary intuitively through extended contextual reading and an innovative system of marginal notes. It is the only textbook currently available that gives students the opportunity to learn Latin without resorting to translation, but allows them to think in the language. It is also the most popular text for teachers, at both the secondary and collegiate levels, who wish to incorporate conversational skills into their classroom practice.
After having studied Familia Romana, students should master Latin grammar and have a vocabulary of almost 1,800 words. Students who have completed Part 1 are already able to read classical texts, such as Ørberg’s editions of Caesar’s Gallic Wars or of Plautus’ Amphitryo.

This book is followed by Part 2 (Roma Aeterna), which tells Roman history from the beginnings. In Part 2, students read extensive selections from classical authors, refine their knowledge of syntax, and develop a vocabulary of over 4000 words. Upon completion of the course, students can read the most challenging classical texts with relative ease.

Other books you can use together with this book:
• Pars I: Latine Disco: Student’s Manual (in English). Student's manual in English with a guide to pronunciation, instructions and information on key points to be noted in each chapter.
• Pars I: Grammatica Latina. A Latin morphology, contains tables of paradigms and forms corresponding to the course material for use with Ørberg's Lingua Latina: Familia Romana.
• Pars I: Latin-English Vocabulary I. Latin-English Vocabulary of words used in Familia Romana.
• Lingua Latina: A College Companion: based on Ørberg’s Latine Disco, with Vocab & Grammar. (Includes the 3 previous booklets.)
In English, this text provides a running grammatical commentary on Book I of Lingua Latina Familia Romana.
In the back of the text is the complete texts of the Hans Orberg ancillaries Grammatica Latina and Latin-English Vocabulary.
This companion text is designed to provide college students with a means of accelerating the pace of using the Lingua Latina text. It is also extremely helpful as a homeschooling resource.
• Pars I: Exercitia Latina I. Contains supplemental grammatical and vocabulary exercises for each of the 133 lectiones (lessons) in Familia Romana Part I of the Lingua Latina course.
• Teacher’s Materials and Answer Keys contains Advice to the instructor, the exercises at the end of each chapter of Familia Romana and Roma Aeterna on separate sheets to be photocopied as hand-outs or tests, and answers to all the exercises in Familia Romana and Roma Aeterna, and to all the exercises in Exercitia Latina I and II except the exercises with questions about the text.

The vocabulary and the student’s manual have also been published in other languages.

The course also includes several readers accessible after having studied part or all of Familia Romana:
• Colloquia Personarum. An illustrated collection of supplementary texts, mostly dialogue. There is one colloquium matching each of Chapters 1 to 24 of Familia Romana.
• Fabellae Latinae. Supplementary texts for each of Chapters 1 to 25 of Familia Romana.
• Fabulae Syrae. Readings linked to each chapter of Familia Rōmāna from XXVI to XXXIV.
• Texts that can be read after Familia Romana:
– Sermones Romani (texts by various authors).
– Plautus: Amphitryo Comoedia.
– Caesar: De bello Gallico. From Books I, IV and V.
– Epitome Historiae Sacrae.


INDEX CAPITVLORVM

I. IMPERIVM ROMANVM. LITTERAE ET NVMERI
        Singulāris et plūrālis
II. FAMILIA ROMANA. LIBER TVVS LATINVS
        Masculīnum, fēminīnum, neutrum
        Genetīvus
III. PVER IMPROBVS
        Nōminātīvus et accūsātīvus
        Verbum
IV. DOMINVS ET SERVI
        Vocātīvus
        Imperātīvus et indicātīvus
V. VILLA ET HORTVS
        Accūsātīvus
        Ablātīvus
        Imperātīvus et indicātīvus
VI. VIA LATINA
        Praepositiōnēs
        Verbum āctīvum et passīvum
VII. PVELLA ROSA
        Datīvus
VIII. TABERNA ROMANA
        Prōnōmina ‘quis’, ‘quī’, ‘is’, ‘ille’
IX. PASTOR ET OVES
        Dēclīnātiō vocābulōrum: prīma, secunda, tertia (pāstor, ovis)
X. BESTIAE ET HOMINES
        Īnfīnītīvus: āctīvum et passīvum
        Dēclīnātiō tertia (leō, homō, vōx, pēs)
XI. CORPVS HVMANVM
        Dēclīnātiō tertia: masculīnum et fēminīnum, neutrum (corpus, flūmen, mare, animal)
        Accūsātīvus cum īnfīnītīvō
XII. MILES ROMANVS
        Dēclīnātiō quārta (exercitus)
        Adiectīvum: dēclīnātiō prīma et secunda (altus), dēclīnātiō tertia (brevis)
        Comparātīvus (altior)
XIII. ANNVS ET MENSES
        Dēclīnātiō quīnta (diēs)
        Superlātīvus
XIV. NOVVS DIES
        Participium (praesēns)
XV. MAGISTER ET DISCIPVLI
        Persōnae verbī (clāmāre, rīdēre, dīcere, facere, audīre, esse, īre, posse)
XVI. TEMPESTAS
        Verba dēpōnentia
XVII. NVMERI DIFFICILES
        Persōnae verbī passīvī
XVIII. LITTERAE LATINAE
        Adverbium
XIX. MARITVS ET VXOR
        Verbī tempora: tempus praesēns et praeteritum
        Praeteritum
XX. PARENTES
        Verbī tempora: tempus futūrum
XXI. PVGNA DISCIPVLORVM
        Verbī tempora: praeteritum perfectum et imperfectum
        Perfectum
XXII. CAVE CANEM
        Supīnum (in -tum et in -tū dēsinēns)
XXIII. EPISTVLA MAGISTRI
        Participium et īnfīnītivus futūrī
XXIV. PVER AEGROTVS
        Verbī tempora: plūsquamperfectum
XXV. THESEVS ET MINOTAVRVS
        Verba dēpōnentia: imperātīvus
XXVI. DAEDALVS ET ICARVS
        Gerundium
XXVII. RES RVSTICAE
        Coniūnctīvus: tempus praesēns
XXVIII. PERICVLA MARIS
        Coniūnctīvus: tempus imperfectum
XXIX. NAVIGARE NECESSE EST
        ‘Ut’, ‘nē’ cum coniūnctīvō
XXX. CONVIVIVM
        Verbī tempora: futūrum perfectum
XXXI. INTER POCULA
        Gerundīvum
XXXII. CLASSIS ROMANA
        Coniūnctīvus: tempus perfectum
XXXIII. EXERCITUS ROMANUS
        Coniūnctīvus: tempus plūsquamperfectum
        Imperātīvus futūrī
XXXIV. DE ARTE POETICA
        Dē versibus: syllabae brevēs et longae, syllabae coniūnctae, pedēs (trochaeus, iambus, dactylus, spondēus), versus hexameter, versus pentameter, versus hendecasyllabus
XXXV. ARS GRAMMATICA
        Dē dēclīnātiōne