Familia Romana CD user tips

If you are using the Lingua Latina CD, you may have noticed that the user interface is somewhat primitive and seems to lack features that have come to be standard in most Windows-based software. If you are having any problems finding your way around, you may be interested in the following tips:

• Understand the Latin labels. Like the textbook, the software interface is all in Latin, so you need to know (or figure out) what the Latin labels mean. "CAP. +" and "CAP. -" will take you to the beginning of the following (+) or previous (-) capitulum. "VOX" will play a recording of Hans Orberg reading aloud the current chapter. "FIX" will allow you to set up to V (5) bookmarks. "PENSA" will allow you to complete a written version of the pensa exercises at the end of each chapter -- with immediate feedback to let you know if your answer is correct. If you want to go back to the reading when you've finished the pensa, just click the "TEXT" button.
• Menus. At the top of the screen, you can use the "CAPITVLA" menu to go directly to the desired capitulum; the "TABVLAE" menu gives access to all the indices and appendices found in the back of the reader.
• Changing pages. While you can change pages by manually entering a page number in the little circle next to the word pagina, that can be cumbersome if you simply want to go to the next page. Instead, just LEFT click on the current page image, and you will see it change to the following page. To go to the previous page, RIGHT click on the page image.