vocabulary - the first step to reading Latin

Vocabulary Builder - Picta Dicta

Picta Dicta – Vocabulary Builder is geared towards Jr. High, high school, and college students, and focuses on general reading vocabulary including verbs, adjectives, prepositions, and nouns for over 1,000 Latin words and concepts. It is designed for students seeking proficiency in reading Latin. It uses Multi-dimensional learning that provides students with a deeper understanding of words: pictures, sounds, context, definitions, translations, lexical information, and more.
This course includes several tracks at different difficulty levels, so every child will find the course both achievable and challenging.

For more information and pricing click here: romanroadsmedia.com/courses/picta-dicta-vocabulary-builder/rr/5/?campaign=PictaDicta

Natural World - Picta Dicta

Picta Dicta -Natural World - supplemental self paced vocabulary builder.
Picta Dicta – Natural World is especially well-suited for elementary-age students, and focuses on a specific and important set of vocabulary—the natural world. Students learn the English and Latin for over 400 nouns from the natural world to establish an unparalleled foundation for later study in Latin, English literature, foreign languages, history, and the sciences.
This course includes several tracks at different difficulty levels, so every child will find the course both achievable and challenging.


See it. Picta Dicta uses colorful, hand drawn illustrations to teach Latin vocabulary words. The pictures are simple enough to comprehend quickly, complicated enough to be accurate, and interesting enough to make memorization fun.
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Hear it.Some people are visual learners, others are auditory, but most benefit from both seeing and hearing. In Picta Dicta, you hear the word pronounced as you see each picture, and in most cases you hear the word used in a sentence about the illustration.

Understand it.Sometimes, seeing and hearing a word used properly is not enough. If you are unsure about the meaning of a word, Picta Dicta has a dictionary tab only one click away with a definition of the word and several possible English translations.

For more information and pricing on Natural World, click here: romanroadsmedia.com/courses/picta-dicta-natural-world/rr/5/?campaign=PictaDicta

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Reading Latin stories and speaking the language is what makes the language stick!  

To really understand a language, one must use it!  We solidify what we've learned by processing it in reading stories and even more so when we must make our brains work in the "output" mode by actually speaking Latin!  Below are resources for learning both the reading and speaking of Latin.

​tres columnae   

I love the series of stories found here trescolumnae.com/gamma/lectionis-primae-fabella-prima/featuring Roman families who live in a domus and insula. While we learn about Roman culture, we are also learning vocabulary and grammar. 

Minecraft teaching roman culture in latin!!!

These are some of my favorite stories told visually.  You can adjust the captions from Latin to English using the toolbar in the bottom right hand corner of the video.