Award-Winning Latin Courses & Classes in Buffalo, NY

If you would like help studying for your Latin class, whether it's at Tapestry Charter School, the University at Buffalo, or you're studying on your own, Varsity Tutors provides Buffalo Latin courses that can meet your needs. The courses take place online with an expert instructor and a group of other classmates who are also attending virtually.

Taking Latin can help you if you're planning to go into the study of linguistics because it is a base for many modern languages and is a direct contributor to the Romance languages. It's also a good language to study if you're going into law, medicine, theology, or science fields. Although it's considered a dead language, in that no one society currently speaks it as their main tongue, Latin is used a great deal in these professions and many others.

Latin has a long and rich history, and the language could have been lost entirely if efforts hadn't been made to continue using it. While Latin was never revived once it stopped being used in daily life, it remains the official language of communication in the Roman Catholic Church and is used in Vatican City. We still use the Roman alphabet, though over the years we've added the letters j, v, and w.

Classical Latin was greatly influenced in its vocabulary, style, and grammar by the Greek language and is the more formal and elegant version of Latin. Vulgar Latin was the everyday spoken version of the language, and it eventually led to the Romance languages.

What kinds of topics are covered in a Buffalo Latin course?

Most language learners find pronouncing Latin relatively easy with a bit of practice. For one, there's no particular accent that you need to develop, because Latin is a "dead" language. Once you learn the pronunciation rules, you may be able to pick up the vocabulary more quickly, read more smoothly, and enjoy Latin in both prose and poetry.

Vocabulary is obviously an important thing to begin learning right from the beginning, and it's another area where Latin might sound more familiar than you'd think. That's because there are so many words in English that are derived from Latin. In fact, some are nearly identical. For example, the Latin 'finis' means 'finish, end'. Sound familiar? Another example is the Latin 'antiqua', which means old. There are long lists of these types of words, making Latin one of the easiest languages to learn from the standpoint of vocabulary.

In Latin, inflections are the endings of words, and you'll need to learn how they indicate the ways in which words relate to one another and help you understand what's being said or written. Inflections in Latin do the job that word order does in English. In the sentence "The girls raced after the hounds," you know who was doing the following and who was ahead because of the order of words. In Latin, it would be the endings of the words that relate this information.

Latin nouns, like those in many modern languages, are gendered. Nouns are each given a gender of masculine, feminine, or neuter. It's important to memorize the gender of a noun when you learn it because when you're constructing sentences, it's important that the adjectives agree in gender and number with the nouns.

Verbs in Latin rarely need a pronoun. Instead, you'll learn them with their inflections, as mentioned above. Other things you can study during your Buffalo Latin classes include basic phrases and sentence structure, grammar, pronunciation, and other language-learning topics. In addition, you may spend part of your classes learning about the Roman civilization, as it can be difficult to truly understand a language without having at least some understanding of the world that produced it. You could spend your whole life studying the Roman world, but in Latin language classes, you'll probably just touch on some of the main aspects, especially as they pertain to the language.

How can learning in a Buffalo Latin class benefit me?

There are a wide variety of benefits from studying Latin in a live online class setting with a knowledgeable instructor and a group of classmates who are learning the same things as you are. For one, studies have shown that the collaborative environments of such classes encourage greater learning and retention of information. This makes sense for a language course, because language was developed to facilitate communication between people, and has no other basic purpose.

By being able to communicate with your Buffalo Latin class instructor and classmates, you can benefit from ideas and suggestions not only from the leader, but from your peers as well. For example, if one student is having a hard time with memorization, the instructor can likely suggest some excellent alternative ways to study. In a group setting, that student could also get help from fellow classmates.

If you end up falling behind the rest of the class in general or in a particular area, your instructor can set aside some one-on-one time with you to help you with whatever concepts may be troubling you to help you get back in step with your peers.

There are so many ways a Latin class benefits your language learning, but perhaps the greatest is the opportunity to use the language in a real-world setting. Why not give yourself the best of all possible study situations by enrolling in one of the Buffalo Latin courses offered by Varsity Tutors?

What do I do to enroll in a live online Buffalo Latin course?

Whether or not learning Latin seems easy, Varsity Tutors has made sure that enrolling in a Latin course is. Just contact us and our educational consultants can answer any questions you have and gather information about your goals, your schedule, and so on. They can then use this information to enroll you in a Buffalo Latin course that meets your academic and scheduling needs. We look forward to helping you as you work towards Latin fluency. Call today to get started!