Basic Indo-European: How Greek and Latin Work

Basic structures of Latin and Ancient Greek, and how they are related to each other, to English, and to other Indo-European languages. Writing system and pronunciation. Core vocabulary, with English cognates and derivatives. How word forms, rather than word order, control the grammar of a sentence. What it means to say languages are related, and how we know about Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of Latin, Greek, and English. Recommendations: intended for students who have not studied Greek or Latin, though they may be taking Greek 1 or Latin 1 now.