Welcome to the Open University’s Introducing Classical Latin website.

Find out how to pronounce Latin, learn some Latin words, and see how to build sentences from those words.

You can also learn how to capture an elephant.

Getting started

Choose different sections in the website from the menu on the right.

Have fun!

You will need

The site is designed to run in Internet Explorer 9 or a later version, and recent versions of Firefox, Safari and Chrome.

Tablet computers

The site will run on tablet computers that use the iOS or Android operating system.