Hans H. Ørberg
LINGUA LATINA PER SE ILLUSTRATA
PARS I: FAMILIA ROMANA

The source:

The sets of exercises or assignments (pensa) are the ones at the ends of the chapters (capitula) of the textbook of the Latin language (linguae Latinae) by the Danish linguist and teacher Hans Henning Ørberg (1920 – 2010), which is based on the 'natural approach', with input only in the target language, using the students' knowledge of the real world – such as that the Nile, the Rhine and the Danube are rivers – and a few drawings in the book. 'Natural', because that is how children learn their first language: by recognising patterns, not by looking words up in a dictionary or studying grammar.

The program:

Which pensum from which capitulum is to be practised and the highest scores obtained are stored in cookies on the learner's computer; the php-script running on the server takes the list of sentences (with their answers) for that pensum from a tab-delimited flat-file database on the server, and writes it as a javascript array into an html-page that is sent to your browser, so that there is no need for a connection to the internet while practising a pensum.

A limitation:

Word order in lingua Latina is quite flexible, (Or: In lingua Latina word order is even more flexible than in English,) and sometimes there may be more than one correct way of completing a sentence; so if an answer is marked as wrong, try a different order.

The content:

So far, as part of my own reacquaintance with linguam Latinam, I have copied out and provided answers for pensa A, B, C as well as the vocabula (V) of capitula I – II. (Note: I have not yet provided any checking that the values entered make sense.) To return to this front page, set '0' (which is not a Roman numeral) as the value for the capitulum. or delete the cookies for this page.

Highest scores gained in the last two months: