A Place of Brightness: Latin Language Tutorials

Latin Language Video Tutorials

Nominative Case
Accusative Case Part One: Direct Objects
Nominative and Accusative Case Practice
Dative Case Part One: Indirect Objects
Ablative Case Part One: Ablative with Prepositions
Genitive Case
Overview of Noun Declensions
1st Declension Nouns
2nd Declension Nouns
3rd Declension Nouns
4th Declension Nouns
5th Declension NounsClauses in Latin
Grammatical Number
Persons of the Verb
Principal Parts of the Verb
Overview of Verb Conjugations
1st Conjugation Verbs
2nd Conjugation Verbs
3rd Conjugation Verbs
3rd IO Conjugation Verbs
4th Conjugation Verbs
Imperatives (Commands)
Present Tense
Imperfect Tense
Future Tense
Perfect Tense
Pluperfect Tense

Future Perfect Tense
Irregular Verbs: sum
Irregular Verbs: possum
Irregular Verbs: volo
Irregular Verbs: nolo
Irregular Verbs: eo
Noun Gender
Difficile est Constructions
Relative Pronouns and Clauses: Part One
Relative Pronouns and Clauses: Part Two
Present Active Participles
P erfect Passive Participles
Overview of the Passive Voice
Overview of the Subjunctive Mood
Indirect Statement
O verview of Gerundives and Gerunds

Conditional Sentences
Latin Version of IF (ancillary to Conditional Sentences)

In Saecula Saeculorum, the 4th Novel in the Valquist Series

In this fourth novel of the Valquist Series, Andrew Valquist is retired (?) from the National Security Agency and teaching Latin at a Classical Academy in the Washington DC area. But in the world of espionage, looks can be deceiving. He's not necessarily happy with the role he has played in all this, but the school was actually a joint NSA/MI-6 Project in which four young people have been unwittingly prepared for a mission to travel back in time to ancient Rome to retrieve information from a library that may save the modern world from certain destruction. They know they have to at least try to save humanity, but can they also save each other?

Next Stop: Spanish, the 3rd Novel in the Valquist Series

This third novel in the Valquist Series can be read as an espionage action-adventure in its own right, but also you can use it as a way to either brush up on your Spanish or learn functional Spanish for the first time! John Valquist needs to learn Spanish. But he's in luck, since his uncle Andrew is a language expert and a former (?) spy who is taking him on a vacation to Spain so he can study the language. In Next Stop: Spanish, you have the chance to see and study the words John studies, and then watch him add more and more Spanish into his dialogue as the story progresses. During this vacation, they get pulled into espionage intrigue (why do these things always happen to the Valquist family?). In the dramatic conclusion, John will need to put together everything he has learned to save his uncle!

Amor Vincit Omnia: the 2nd Novel in the Valquist Series

In this second novel of the Valquist Series, Keith Massey takes you into the halls of the National Security Agency, where he himself worked for four years after 9/11 and an Arabic linguist. You follow our hero Andrew Valquist, as he starts work as a new recruit at the NSA. Little does he know that on his first on the job, he's about to fly off on an unexpected overseas assignment. He'll be even more surprised when he learns that his background in ancient Latin will be crucial to the mission!