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igcselatin	Mrs. Marilyn McMahon
Island School, Hong Kong
http://www.island.edu.hk

           Welcome to the homepage of Cambridge International Exams (CIE) IGCSE Latin Course activities. This homepage contains comprehensive information and online activities about the language of Latin including vocabulary and grammar, its history and its culture. Below is a brief history of Latin:

          Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. However, Latin is defined as a "dead langauge" because it is no longer spoken (except in some Christian rituals) but it survives through the vast body of literatrue and inscriptions that have been preserved. Therefore, students of Latin are mostly required to read Latin, rather than wirte Latin. Latin gained wide usage as the formal language of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. An inflectional and synthetic language, Latin relies little on word order, conveying meaning through a system of affixes attached to word stems. The Latin alphabet, derived from the Greek, remains the most widely-used alphabet in the world.

          Although now widely considered an extinct language with very few fluent speakers, Latin has had a major influence on many languages that are still thriving, and continues to see wide use in areas such as academia. All Romance languages are descended from Vulgar Latin, and many words adapted from Latin are found in other modern languages, such as English, Italian, French, Spanish and Romainian, and over 50% English came from Latin. Moreover, in the Western world, Latin was the lingua franca, the learned language for scientific and political affairs, for more than a thousand years, eventually being replaced by French in the 18th century and English in the late 19th. Ecclesiastical Latin remains the formal language of the Roman Catholic Church to this day, and thus the national language of the Vatican. The Church used Latin as its primary liturgical language until the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. Latin is also still used — drawing heavily on Greek roots — to furnish the names used in the scientific classification of living things. The modern study of Latin, along with Greek, is known as Classics.

         The activities and links below are here to help you in your language studies and preparations for your exams. We hope you will find them useful, informative and at the same time benefiting from them. Suggestions and comments are most welcome. Enjoy your surfing!

My Quia activities and quizzes

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 1

https://www.quia.com/jg/812623.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 2

https://www.quia.com/jg/812662.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 3

https://www.quia.com/jg/815369.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 4

https://www.quia.com/jg/819764.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 5

https://www.quia.com/jg/830110.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 6

https://www.quia.com/jg/839122.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 7

https://www.quia.com/jg/844108.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 8

https://www.quia.com/jg/848296.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 9

https://www.quia.com/jg/863273.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 10

https://www.quia.com/jg/875409.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 11

https://www.quia.com/jg/878982.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 12

https://www.quia.com/jg/890620.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 13

https://www.quia.com/jg/896279.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 14

https://www.quia.com/jg/913034.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 15

https://www.quia.com/jg/913035.html

IGCSE Latin Core Vocabulary 16

https://www.quia.com/jg/916473.html

Unseen Practice (under construction)

https://www.quia.com/quiz/727181.html

Latin Cardinals & Ordinals

https://www.quia.com/cm/100550.html

https://www.quia.com/jg/815451.html

Latin: The family

https://www.quia.com/jg/815401.html

Latin Greetings

https://www.quia.com/cm/100552.html

Latin Months & Seasons

https://www.quia.com/hm/237410.html

https://www.quia.com/cm/100553.html

Latin Root Words

https://www.quia.com/jg/815450.html

English derivatives

https://www.quia.com/quiz/729259.html

Latin translation

https://www.quia.com/pop/118011.html

The Roman Gods & Goddesses

https://www.quia.com/jg/815412.html

The Roman Gods & Goddesses 2

https://www.quia.com/jg/815454.html

The Roman Gods and Goddesses Quiz

https://www.quia.com/quiz/729246.html

Culture: A Roman House

https://www.quia.com/jg/815452.html

Culture: The baths

https://www.quia.com/jw/123467.html

Culture: The theater at Pompeii

https://www.quia.com/rr/144749.html

Culture: The Roman Forum

https://www.quia.com/rr/144748.html

Latin Basic Grammar Concepts Quiz

https://www.quia.com/jq/97828.html

Latin: Latin Sayings

https://www.quia.com/pop/118012.html

https://www.quia.com/pop/118015.html

Genitive Case Review

https://www.quia.com/quiz/729254.html

Verb Battleship

https://www.quia.com/ba/68730.html

Participle practice

https://www.quia.com/ba/68733.html

Review of Cases & Uses

https://www.quia.com/ba/68734.html

Pluperfect, future perfect, 4th and 5th declension exercise

https://www.quia.com/cb/143021.html

Present & Future verbs

https://www.quia.com/hm/237415.html

Present Participles

https://www.quia.com/cm/100562.html

Infinitives practice

https://www.quia.com/pop/118014.html

More Nominative & Accusative Forms Practice

https://www.quia.com/pop/118109.html

Using nominative and accusative

https://www.quia.com/cz/72041.html

General Conjugations: 1st, 2nd & 3rd

https://www.quia.com/cb/143193.html

Latin Present Tense Passive Voice

https://www.quia.com/cm/100663.html

Latin: noun-adjective agreement

https://www.quia.com/cm/100681.html

Verb Paradigm Practice

https://www.quia.com/pa/29819.html

Noun Paradigm Practice

https://www.quia.com/pa/29820.html

Latin Passive Voice (All tenses)

https://www.quia.com/pa/29821.html

Verbs: Principal Parts

https://www.quia.com/hm/237555.html

Useful links

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