By Lindsay Cooper

Description

The Most Fun You'll Have Learning Verbs

Who says learning Latin verb endings and conjugations has to be boring? Not us! Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, in cooperation with software developer Multimodis Latina, Inc., is pleased to bring you Review Latin Verbs, the next level of fun language-learning software that lets junior high and high school students learn their Latin verbs while playing. We don’t want you getting bored and quitting, so we have taken a completely different approach to that of most educational software:

• Review Latin verbs from your centaur teacher in a simulated classroom setting with a collection of animated classmates.
  
• Answer the questions when called upon by the centaur.
  
• Play action-based games to review your Latin verbs. Games include archery, a footrace, and more, all based on Classical myths and legends. You'll hardly know you're working!

If you are tired of repetitive, boring drills, or dated, Flash-based games like hangman, Review Latin Verbs will energize and entertain you while you practice your Latin.

Why learn your Latin verb endings?
Knowing the Latin verb endings is a HUGE help to understanding Latin:

• For a start, you'll recognize the verb in a sentence much more easily.
  
• If you've got the verb right, you have the main clue to understanding the rest of the Latin sentence.
  
• You'll also be able to write a Latin verb correctly. You'll astound yourself (and maybe even your friends and teachers)!
  
• Further programs currently under construction are: Review Latin Nouns and Review Latin Adjectives.
  
• Order and download your individual copy (or copy for schools) today!

If you represent a consortium (e.g. a homeschooling organization) and wish to purchase Review Latin Verbs in bulk (minimum order of 30 licenses at $30.00/license), please submit your request to info@bolchazy.com

Special Features

• Review Latin Verbs was developed by Lindsay Cooper, a Latin teacher of many years’ experience, who saw the need for a high interest computer program which could take the drudgery out of learning and remembering Latin verb endings.
  
• Review Latin Verbs has been designed for Latin students in their first and second years of study, with the aim of encouraging students to revise the Latin verb endings.
  
• Simple navigation: students can access or quit any lesson or any exercise at any point in the program.
  
• Classroom simulation: “real” students and a centaur teacher who speaks to the students.
  
• Colorful exercise animations with classical/mythological themes.
  
• Feedback designed to help students learn from their mistakes.
  
• Printable charts.

Lessons Covered

Review Latin Verbs contains Lessons and Exercises including:

• What’s a Verb?
  
• What’s a Tense?
  
• What’s a Conjugation?
  
• The Six Basic Verb Endings
  
• Each module contains these four basic lessons as well as the Tense Lessons and Exercises.

  Module 1: Present Tense (active indicative) 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th conjugations. The four basic lessons.
  Module 2: Imperfect Tense (active indicative) 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th conjugations. The four basic lessons.
  Module 3: Future Tense (active indicative) 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th conjugations. The four basic lessons.
  Module 4: Perfect Tense, Pluperfect Tense, Future Perfect Tens (all active indicative) Principal Parts, Finding the Perfect Stem. The four basic lessons.

  Technical specifications
  

  • Operating System: Microsoft Windows 9x/2000/XP
    
  • Processor: 800 MHz or higher
    
  • Memory: 128MB
    
  • Video RAM: 16MB RAM
    
  • Video Resolution: 800x600 resolution, 16-bit color

Free 7 day trial of Review Latin Verbs is available request demo




Comments and Reviews

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The program is a great way to introduce the concepts of the verb system to beginning Latin students. It is also an effective remedial resource for students struggling with the differences between the conjugations. The games are fun to play with a class when projected on a big screen. The kids love the graphics and animation. I have appreciated the program and plan to use it each year.

John Roth, Ph.D.
Bosque School, New Mexico

• Fun animation with mythological characters.
  
• Student receives reinforcement of grammatical principles when she gives an incorrect answer.
  
• The ability to interactively correct another "student's" mistake at Level III is a nice touch.

Linda Sizemore
Latin teacher for Homeschoolers, New Jersey

A clever and engaging computer-game style of animations in the exercises.....flexible, easy navigation through the program.

Pat Kessler
Joe E. Newsome High School, Florida