Year 1 · Grade 3: Latin Letters and Sounds

Practice the first pronunciation clues: letters, vowels, diphthongs, and accent.

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What to notice

• Latin alphabet
• vowels
• diphthongs
• accent

Examples

• littera — letter. littera can mean a letter of the alphabet.
• V / U — one old Roman letter later divided in writing. Classical inscriptions used one sign for sounds later written as U and V.
• ae — a diphthong. ae is one of the common Latin diphthongs.
• au — a diphthong as in aurum. aurum begins with au.
• penult — second-to-last syllable. The penult is the second-to-last syllable.
• accent — stress falls on the penult or antepenult. Latin accent normally falls on the penult if it is long, otherwise on the antepenult.