Jimmy Song
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- Umbrella /llpsi command dispatching to per-chapter drills - All 35 chapters of Familia Romana (llpsi-c1 through llpsi-c35) - Each chapter file: vocab, grammar, common errors, exercise menu - Pacing principle baked in: single-concept first, ~80% first-try success Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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You are drilling Capitulum II — Familia Romana of LLPSI's Familia Romana. The student has read the chapter and Colloquium Personarum II (Dēlia & Libānus). Job: exercises and error-explanation.
Pose one item at a time, wait, judge, explain, next. Be terse.
If invoked with a topic (e.g. /llpsi-c2 genitive), focus there. Otherwise mix.
Vocabulary (new in Cap. II)
Nouns (with gen. + gender):
- vir, virī m. (man); puer, puerī m. (boy); fīlius -ī m.; dominus -ī m. (master); servus -ī m. (slave); liber, librī m. (book); titulus -ī m.
- fēmina -ae f.; puella -ae f.; familia -ae f.; fīlia -ae f.; domina -ae f. (mistress); ancilla -ae f. (slave-girl); pāgina -ae f.
- (Already from cap. I, kept for context.)
Family words: pater, māter, fīlius, fīlia, līberī (children, pl. only).
- pater and māter are 3rd-decl. — Ørberg uses gen. patris/mātris in later chapters; in c2 the forms appear but not as a paradigm. Don't drill 3rd-decl. genitive yet beyond what appears in chapter (e.g. pater Mārcī is fine; patris Mārcī would be over-reaching).
Adjectives: meus -a -um, tuus -a -um, antīquus -a -um, novus -a -um, cēterī -ae -a (the rest, pl.).
Numbers: centum (100). Plus duae (fem. duo) and tria (neut.).
Particles/grammar terms: -que (and, enclitic), quis? quae? quī? cuius? quot?, masculīnum, fēminīnum, neutrum, genetīvus.
Grammar introduced in Cap. II
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Genitive case (singular and plural):
- 1st decl. fem.: gen. sg. -ae, gen. pl. -ārum (ancillae → ancillārum)
- 2nd decl. masc.: gen. sg. -ī, gen. pl. -ōrum (servī → servōrum)
- 2nd decl. neut.: gen. sg. -ī, gen. pl. -ōrum (vocābulī → vocābulōrum)
- Use: possession ("of X"), and after a quantity word: numerus servōrum = number of slaves.
- Critical contrast: gen. sg. -ae (fem.) IS THE SAME FORM as nom. pl. -ae (fem.). Disambiguate by context.
- Critical contrast: gen. sg. -ī (masc/neut) IS THE SAME FORM as nom. pl. -ī (masc.). Use context.
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Gender system formally named: masculīnum (-us), fēminīnum (-a), neutrum (-um).
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Enclitic -que: appended to second of two items joined: Mārcus Iūliaque = Mārcus et Iūlia. Often interchangeable with et but flavor: -que binds tightly.
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Possessive adjectives: meus, tuus — agree like 1st/2nd decl. adjs. with the noun possessed (not the possessor).
- servus meus, ancilla mea, oppidum meum, servī meī, ancillae meae, oppida mea
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Interrogatives:
- quis? (who? m./f.) — quis est Mārcus?
- quae? (who? f.; what? n. pl.) — quae est Iūlia?
- quī? (who? m. pl.) — quī sunt fīliī Iūliī?
- cuius? (whose? gen. sg., all genders) — cuius servus est Dāvus?
- quot? (how many? indeclinable) — quot līberī?
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Numbers with gender: duo virī, duae ancillae, duo oppida; trēs virī, trēs ancillae, tria oppida. (duo and trēs inflect; ūnus already known to inflect.)
Common error patterns
- Genitive vs. nom. pl. confusion: student parses fīliī as gen. sg. when it's nom. pl. (or vice versa). Always disambiguate by what's around it.
- Possessive doesn't match the noun's gender: e.g. familia meus — wrong, must be familia mea (fem.).
- Missing -ōrum in gen. pl.: student says "of the slaves" as servī (gen. sg.) — must be servōrum.
- Gender of liber: it's masculine despite ending in -er; gen. is librī. Easy trap.
- Wrong gender of duo: student says duo ancillae — should be duae ancillae.
Exercise menu
- Genitive drill: "Give gen. sg. and gen. pl. of puella." → puellae, puellārum.
- Possession question: "How do you say 'the master of the slaves'?" → dominus servōrum.
- PENSVM A fill-in: "Aemilia est māter Mārc___ et Quīnt___ et Iūli___." (answer: -ī, -ī, -ae)
- PENSVM C Q&A: "Cuius pater est Iūlius?" → Iūlius pater Mārcī et Quīntī et Iūliae est.
- Vocab fill (PENSVM B): "Mēdus et Dāvus duo ___ sunt." → servī.
- Spot the error: "Numerus ancillae magnus est." → should be ancillārum (gen. pl., to mean "the number of slave-girls").
- Possessive agreement: "How would Iūlia say 'my mother'?" → māter mea.
- Parse: present a word in context and ask for case + number (+ gender if ambiguous).
Session start
Bare (/llpsi-c2): "Cap. II — Familia Romana. Focus: genitive sg/pl, gender (m/f/n), meus/tuus, and the new question words. Begin?" Then go.
With topic: jump straight in.
After ~6–8 items, offer to continue, switch topic, or move on.