Learning map Latin by steps

How to read the map

Each row is a step in the chain of “builds on”. A building block stands one row below its deepest prerequisite. At the top are the building blocks without a prerequisite.

Step ↓ · Strand →	Vocabulary, word formation and pronunciation 0 of 15 building blocks practised	Morphology 0 of 54 building blocks practised	Syntax 0 of 49 building blocks practised	Reading, translating and interpreting texts 0 of 22 building blocks practised	Ancient culture and its legacy 0 of 36 building blocks practised
Step 110 building blocks	Pronunciation and stress (gap, no app yet) Learning vocabulary (gap, no app yet) Parts of speech (gap, no app yet) Sound changes (gap, no app yet)			Text types (gap, no app yet)	The city of Rome (gap, no app yet) The Roman family (gap, no app yet) Greek and Roman gods (gap, no app yet) Roman numerals (gap, no app yet) Calendar and dating (gap, no app yet)
Step 218 building blocks	Word families and semantic fields (gap, no app yet) Word meaning in context (gap, no app yet) Loanwords and foreign words (gap, no app yet) Inscriptions and abbreviations (gap, no app yet)	Case, number and gender (gap, no app yet) Personal endings (gap, no app yet)		Reading aloud with expression (gap, no app yet) Metre: basic terms (gap, no app yet)	Daily life and leisure (gap, no app yet) Housing in Rome (gap, no app yet) School and education (gap, no app yet) Slavery (gap, no app yet) Patrons, clients and social orders (gap, no app yet) Religion and worship (gap, no app yet) The Trojan War and the Odyssey (gap, no app yet) Greek myths (gap, no app yet) Roman values (gap, no app yet) Antiquity in everyday life (gap, no app yet)
Step 319 building blocks	Word formation: prefixes (gap, no app yet) Word formation: suffixes (gap, no app yet) Latin in modern languages (gap, no app yet) Latin phrases and sayings (gap, no app yet) Author-specific vocabulary (gap, no app yet)	First declension (gap, no app yet) Second declension (gap, no app yet) Third declension (gap, no app yet) Fourth declension (gap, no app yet) Fifth declension (gap, no app yet) Personal pronouns (gap, no app yet) Relative pronoun (gap, no app yet) The verbs esse and posse (gap, no app yet) Present tense: first and second conjugation (gap, no app yet)	Subject and predicate (gap, no app yet)	Pre-reading a text (gap, no app yet) Hexameter (gap, no app yet)	The founding myth of Rome (gap, no app yet) Stoicism and Epicureanism (gap, no app yet)
Step 415 building blocks	Working out unknown words (gap, no app yet)	First and second declension adjectives (gap, no app yet) Third declension i-stems (gap, no app yet) The pronoun is, ea, id (gap, no app yet) Interrogative pronouns (gap, no app yet) Present tense: third and fourth conjugation (gap, no app yet)	Direct and indirect objects (gap, no app yet) Adverbials (gap, no app yet) Predicate noun (gap, no app yet) Attributes (gap, no app yet) Main and subordinate clauses (gap, no app yet)	Structuring and summarising a text (gap, no app yet) Elegiac couplet (gap, no app yet)	The kings and the Republic (gap, no app yet) Ovid's Metamorphoses (gap, no app yet)
Step 519 building blocks		Third declension adjectives (gap, no app yet) Numerals (gap, no app yet) Possessive pronouns (gap, no app yet) Demonstrative pronouns (gap, no app yet) The pronouns ipse and idem (gap, no app yet) Indefinite pronouns (gap, no app yet) Present active infinitive (gap, no app yet) Imperative (gap, no app yet) Imperfect active (gap, no app yet) Perfect tense: v- and u-perfect (gap, no app yet)	Agreement in case, number and gender (gap, no app yet) Genitive attribute (gap, no app yet) Further uses of the dative (gap, no app yet) Prepositions (gap, no app yet) Adverbial clauses in the indicative (gap, no app yet)	Construing a sentence (gap, no app yet) Interpreting a text (gap, no app yet) Stylistic devices: words and sound (gap, no app yet)	Senate and magistrates (gap, no app yet)
Step 627 building blocks		Forming adverbs (gap, no app yet) Comparison of adjectives (gap, no app yet) Reflexive pronouns (gap, no app yet) Future active (gap, no app yet) Perfect tense: other formations (gap, no app yet) Pluperfect active (gap, no app yet) Perfect active infinitive (gap, no app yet) The verb ire (gap, no app yet) The verbs velle, nolle, malle (gap, no app yet) Present active participle (gap, no app yet)	Predicative (gap, no app yet) Further uses of the genitive (gap, no app yet) Basic uses of the ablative (gap, no app yet) Sentence types (gap, no app yet) Imperfect and perfect in narrative (gap, no app yet) Real conditional clauses (gap, no app yet) Relative clause (gap, no app yet) Accusative and infinitive: simultaneous action (gap, no app yet)	Idiomatic translation (gap, no app yet) Fable (gap, no app yet) Stylistic devices: word order (gap, no app yet) Point of view and reader guidance (gap, no app yet) Epigram (gap, no app yet)	Cursus honorum (gap, no app yet) The Roman army (gap, no app yet) Roman law (gap, no app yet) Reception in art and film (gap, no app yet)
Step 718 building blocks		Comparison of adverbs (gap, no app yet) Principal parts (gap, no app yet) Future perfect (gap, no app yet) Passive of the present system (gap, no app yet) Defective verbs (gap, no app yet) Gerund and gerundive forms (gap, no app yet)	Further uses of the ablative (gap, no app yet) Questions (gap, no app yet) Historic present (gap, no app yet) Connecting relative (gap, no app yet) Accusative and infinitive: prior action (gap, no app yet) Reflexives in the accusative and infinitive (gap, no app yet)	Sentence diagram (gap, no app yet) Checking a translation (gap, no app yet) Comparing translations (gap, no app yet) Effect of stylistic devices (gap, no app yet)	The Punic Wars (gap, no app yet) The fall of the Republic (gap, no app yet)
Step 811 building blocks	Using a dictionary (gap, no app yet)	The verb ferre (gap, no app yet) Perfect passive participle (gap, no app yet) Present subjunctive (gap, no app yet) Imperfect subjunctive (gap, no app yet) The verb fieri (gap, no app yet)	Gerund (gap, no app yet)	Linear reading (gap, no app yet) Speech and argument (gap, no app yet)	Augustus and the Principate (gap, no app yet) The empire and its provinces (gap, no app yet)
Step 911 building blocks		Passive of the perfect system (gap, no app yet) Future active participle (gap, no app yet)	Purpose clause (gap, no app yet) Participium coniunctum with perfect participle (gap, no app yet) Attributive participle (gap, no app yet) Attributive gerundive (gap, no app yet)	Original texts with aids (gap, no app yet)	The Empire and Christianity (gap, no app yet) The Romans in Germania (gap, no app yet) Roman claims to power (gap, no app yet) Images of foreign peoples (gap, no app yet)
Step 1015 building blocks		Passive infinitives (gap, no app yet) Perfect subjunctive (gap, no app yet) Pluperfect subjunctive (gap, no app yet) Deponent verbs (gap, no app yet)	Result clause (gap, no app yet) Indirect commands (gap, no app yet) Relative clause with the subjunctive (gap, no app yet) Accusative and infinitive: subsequent action (gap, no app yet) Participium coniunctum with present participle (gap, no app yet) Participium coniunctum with future participle (gap, no app yet) Translating participles (gap, no app yet) Gerundive of obligation (gap, no app yet)		Periods of Roman history (gap, no app yet) Caesar's Gallic War (gap, no app yet) Latin in Europe (gap, no app yet)
Step 1110 building blocks		Semi-deponent verbs (gap, no app yet)	Cum with the subjunctive (gap, no app yet) Indirect question (gap, no app yet) Unreal conditions (gap, no app yet) Hortatory, jussive and prohibitive subjunctive (gap, no app yet) Wishes with utinam (gap, no app yet) Potential and deliberative subjunctive (gap, no app yet) Accusative and passive infinitive (gap, no app yet) Ablative absolute (gap, no app yet)		Authors and works (gap, no app yet)
Step 122 building blocks			Sequence of tenses (gap, no app yet) Ablative absolute without participle (gap, no app yet)
Step 131 building block			Indirect speech (gap, no app yet)

Click a building block to see what it builds on and what builds on it, step by step.

How to read the map

Strand · a column: A part of the subject that runs over several school years.
Building block · a box: One thing a child can learn: “I can …”.
Step · a row: How far down a building block stands in the chain of “builds on”. It says nothing about grades.
App · the colour: Blue means covered: an app practises the building block. Dashed means gap: no app practises it yet.

All terms and how they belong together · Why this method?