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Loading...Henle First Year Latin is the backbone of the Challenge A and B curriculum, and it is one of the subjects parents find hardest to support at home. Via Latina gives your student interactive vocabulary drills, grammar practice, and an AI tutor that explains every exercise — so you do not need to be a Latin scholar yourself.
Henle First Year Latin spans 42 lessons divided roughly into ten conceptual blocks. It begins with first declension nouns and simple present-tense verbs, then systematically adds declensions, tenses, pronoun types, and increasingly complex sentence structures. By the final lessons, students are parsing subjunctive clauses and translating multi-clause sentences.
Challenge A students typically cover lessons 1 through 15 in their first year. Challenge B extends through lesson 29. Challenge I completes the entire book. The tools below work for all three levels — just filter by chapter range to match your student's current position.
Five focused tools covering vocabulary, grammar, translation, tutoring, and export. Use them individually or combine them into a daily practice routine.
Flashcard-style practice for every vocabulary word in Henle First Year, organized by lesson. Filter by chapter range to match where your student is in the book. Spaced repetition scheduling surfaces words that need the most review.
Latin-to-English and English-to-Latin translation exercises drawn from Henle exercises. Students type their translation and get immediate feedback with grammar explanations for any mistakes.
Dedicated drills for declension endings, conjugation forms, and adjective agreement. Choose a specific declension or conjugation to practice, or let the tool quiz you across all forms you have learned so far.
Ask questions about any Henle exercise and get step-by-step explanations. The tutor walks through parsing, identifies the grammar rule involved, and explains why a particular ending or form is correct.
Export vocabulary and grammar cards for any chapter range as printable PDFs or Anki-compatible files. Useful for families who want physical cards alongside digital practice.
A quick overview of what each chapter block covers so you know what your student is working on and what to practice.
First declension noun endings (-a, -ae), present tense of first conjugation verbs, basic sentence structure, nominative and accusative cases.
Second declension -us/-er nouns, genitive and dative cases introduced, prepositions with ablative, simple prepositional phrases.
Second declension neuter nouns (-um), first/second declension adjective agreement, adjective-noun pairs across genders, expanding sentence translation.
Third declension consonant stems, varied nominative forms, i-stem nouns, third declension adjectives. The difficulty jump that trips up most students.
Imperfect and future tenses for all four conjugations, principal parts introduced, sum/esse (to be), compound sentences with multiple clauses.
Fourth declension -us nouns, fifth declension -es nouns, relative pronouns (qui, quae, quod), relative clauses in translation.
Perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect tenses. Principal parts become essential. Students must memorize four forms per verb to conjugate correctly.
Personal pronouns (ego, tu, nos, vos), demonstrative pronouns (hic, ille, is), pronoun declension across all cases, pronoun-antecedent agreement.
Passive voice for all tenses and conjugations, ablative of agent, passive periphrastic, converting active sentences to passive and back.
Present and imperfect subjunctive, purpose clauses (ut/ne), result clauses, indirect questions. The culmination of Henle First Year grammar.
“We went from dreading Latin to my daughter asking to practice every morning before breakfast. She's halfway through Henle Lesson 4 and actually enjoying declensions.”
— Challenge A Parent, Colorado
Jump into Henle vocabulary practice right now — no account needed. Pick your chapter range and see how your student does on the first ten questions.
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