LATIN COURSE CONTENTS:

The first four levels use the textbook Latin via Ovid and supplementary materials to introduce the principal grammatical structures and a vocabulary of around 1500 words. Reading passages in the book begin with simple prose retellings of Greek myths as presented in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and progress to minimally adapted Ovidian verse in the final ten chapters

LATIN I (20 hours): Chapters 1-10, covering 1st and 2nd. declensions and present, imperfect, future and perfect tenses of the 1st and 2nd. conjugations. See https://linguae.weebly.com/latin-i.html for further detail.

LATIN II (20 hours): Chapters 11-20, covering 3rd. – 5th declensions, 3rd & 4th conjugations, pronouns is, hic, ille, the passive, . See https://linguae.weebly.com/latin-ii.html for further detail.

LATIN III (30 hours): Chapters 21-30, covering indirect statement, subjunctive and its uses, the gerund, impersonal verbs, See https://linguae.weebly.com/latin-iii.html for further details.

LATIN IV (30 hours): Chapters 31-40.  Minimally adapted extracts from the Metamorphoses. Structure of hexameter verse, use of the gerundive. See https://linguae.weebly.com/latin-iv.html for further details

Completion of all four levels provides adequate knowledge of the language to take the Cambridge IGCSE or College Board Advanced Placement Exam, though these also involve the study of prescribed texts.

LATIN V, VI and VII are reading courses, using the intermediate reader Ad Alpes (see https://linguae.weebly.com/ad-alpes.html) and covering respectively chapters 1-10, 11-20 and 21-30. The level of difficulty is the same in each course, but knowledge of the basics covered in LATIN I-IV is assumed.  

Latin is widely used across different subjects, such as Law, Chemistry, and Biology, for example, “curriculum vitae”, and “vice versa”. Mastering Latin will definitely help you to learn the other Romance languages such as Italian, French and Spanish, to explore the classical world and to understand more about the history of the Ancient Roman Empire.

ADULT (2026 Term 1)

Course CodeNameTimeDatesRemarksTeacherCourse Duration (lessons)Course Fee
L012601

Latin Language Class: Latin I (Monday)
19:00-21:00
2/3, 9/3, 16/3, 30/3, 13/4, 20/4, 27/4, 4/5, 11/5, 18/5

 No lesson(s) on 23/3, 6/4John Whelpton
10
$2,900
L012604
Latin Language Class: Latin VII (Saturday)
16:00-18:00
11/4, 18/4, 25/4, 2/5, 9/5, 16/5, 23/5, 30/5, 6/6, 13/6



John Whelpton
10$2,900

ADULT (2025 Term 3)

Course CodeNameTimeDatesRemarksTeacherCourse Duration (lessons)Course Fee
L032503
Latin Language Class: Latin I (Tuesday)
19:00-21:00
14/10, 21/10, 28/10, 4/11, 11/11, 18/11, 25/11, 2/12, 9/12, 16/12
John Whelpton
10
$2,900
L032501
Latin Language Class: Latin II (Monday)
19:00-21:0022/9, 29/9, 13/10, 20/10, 27/10, 3/11, 10/11, 17/11, 24/11, 1/12


No lesson(s) on 6/10John Whelpton10$2,900
L032502
Latin Language Class: Latin VII (Saturday)

16:00-18:00
25/10, 1/11, 8/11, 15/11, 22/11, 29/11, 6/12, 13/12, 20/12, 3/1

No lesson(s) on 27/12John Whelpton
10
$2,900

IMPORTANT NOTES

1. Enrollment period is from now until 10 calendar days before the commencement date of the course. Enrollment is made on a first-come-first-served basis and will be processed when the enrollment form is completed and full payment is received. Late submissions will only be considered if there are still vacant places.
2. All courses will be conducted in English. The allocation of teacher will be changed if necessary and students will be duly informed.
3. Any updates or changes of the schedule will be posted on our website. We reserve the right to make changes if necessary and students will be duly informed.
4. Location is Room 702, 7/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. We reserve the right to change the location if necessary and students will be duly informed.
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Course fee is non-refundable and non-transferable. No refund will be granted upon withdrawal from the course after its commencement. Refund will only be possible under any of the below conditions:
a. In case of school closure prior to the commencement of a course, our school will refund in full the course fee collected to students immediately.
b. If a course cannot be operated according to the arrangements specified in the fee receipts and students decline the revised arrangements offered by our school, our school will refund in full or on a pro-rata basis the course fee collected to students as soon as possible and in any event not later than one month after the students have requested for the refund.
c. If a course cannot be operated on the date or at the time specified in the course leaflet and pupils decline the revised arrangements offered by our school, our school will refund in full or on a pro-rata basis the course fee collected to students as soon as possible and in any event not later than one month after the students have requested for the refund.
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d. Our school will pay the refund in cheque.
7. If typhoon signal No. 8 or above or black rainstorm is hoisted 2 hours before the lesson starts, the lesson will be either cancelled or moved online if situation permits. No further refund will be made for lessons affected by bad weather.