Award-Winning Private Latin Tutoring in Kirkland, WA

"Today, we spent most of the session working on the forms of the verb in the passive voice, which the student has a quiz on in class this Friday. I started out by reviewing how the forms of the verb are generated for the active voice, breaking down the verb into stem + tense marker + personal endings, and then taking him through the steps on conjugating the different tense combinations. He struggled a bit at first, but gained more confidence with repetition, as we repeated the same process with slight modifications to create the future vs the imperfect, etc. Then, we moved on to doing all the same things with the passive voice, where the primary change is simply using the passive personal endings instead of the active. Then, we reviewed the forms of the perfect passive system, which they were to cover in class the next day, again breaking it down as a system rather than dozens of individual forms to be memorized. Finally, we did some review of comparative and superlative adjectives, which they reviewed early in the week, as well as a quick review of declining some of the participles."

"We spent the entire session preparing for tomorrow's test, covering vocabulary, short verb translations, sentence parsing, and sentence translations. The latest material focuses on the many participles and infinitives, and the student and I looked at these closely and with various approaches. He hesitates slightly at times with these many forms, but his eventual understanding is very good. "