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Island School, Hong Kong  
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           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
Roman Numerals
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
Latin: Colours
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
Grammar Review
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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