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A Latinum Institute intralinear lesson: this is taught using an ancient Renaissance technique — every sentence carries a word-by-word English gloss interleaved into the text, so you read and understand from the very first lesson, with no dictionary required. This is comprehensible input as a system. Each lesson section is repeated three times — first in construed technical form, then sentence by sentence, and finally in the target language only. Each section includes grammar notes. This enables you to assess your progress and test yourself for understanding immediately. Each lesson is built around one core word, and includes a full translation in technical gloss, then a natural translation, grammar notes, cultural context, and a passage of real literature, followed by a third section based on a genre style — a letter, a story, a dialogue — so that script, vocabulary, and grammar are acquired together through repeated, structured contact rather than drills or tests.

100 lessons

Lessons

Lesson 1 Lesson 2of Lesson 3to Lesson 4is Lesson 5 Lesson 6in Lesson 7to be Lesson 8it Lesson 9you Lesson 10it Lesson 11in Lesson 12 Lesson 13she Lesson 14conjunction Lesson 15 Lesson 16 Lesson 17me Lesson 18on Lesson 19with Lesson 20to Lesson 21 Lesson 22to have Lesson 23for Lesson 24conjunction Lesson 25him Lesson 26to say Lesson 27to be Lesson 28 Lesson 29 Lesson 30 Lesson 31so Lesson 32to have Lesson 33what Lesson 34 Lesson 35just Lesson 36to like Lesson 37to go Lesson 38they Lesson 39to be Lesson 40this Lesson 41 Lesson 42all Lesson 43we Lesson 44to be Lesson 45 Lesson 46to do Lesson 47one Lesson 48to speak Lesson 49that Lesson 50if Lesson 51only Lesson 52up Lesson 53think Lesson 54also Lesson 55back Lesson 56after Lesson 57use Lesson 58to have Lesson 59outside Lesson 60one Lesson 61to come Lesson 62people Lesson 63to take Lesson 64year Lesson 65lui Lesson 66them Lesson 67some Lesson 68to want Lesson 69how Lesson 70when Lesson 71which Lesson 72now Lesson 73like Lesson 74other Lesson 75to be able Lesson 76our Lesson 77into Lesson 78here Lesson 79then Lesson 80pronounced Lesson 81appearance Lesson 82way Lesson 83more Lesson 84these Lesson 85no Lesson 86thing Lesson 87very Lesson 88because Lesson 89as Lesson 90two Lesson 91to use Lesson 92tell Lesson 93right Lesson 94first Lesson 95man Lesson 96day Lesson 97find Lesson 98to give Lesson 99more Lesson 100new