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The Prima Lingua course includes on-the-page lessons and activities in the 165-page Prima Lingua student workbook (with accompanying teacher's manual), as well as online games available through password-protected access to PrimaLingua.net's Students section.

Prima Lingua students learn English grammar and compare it to grammatical structures they will encounter in their study of a foreign language. The focus is on grammatical structures and linguistic patterns that are common to many foreign languages.

The course materials cover a wide range of language topics, including:

General language principles that apply to most foreign languages
  - Inflection
  - Word order
  - Gender
  - Noun-adjective agreement and placement
  - Conjugations

Connections between languages
  - Derivatives
  - Stems/roots
  - Prefixes/suffixes

Comparison of words in different languages
  - Linguistic sound groups (dental, labial, etc.)
  - Voiced and unvoiced

Development of languages
  - Language families
  - Evolution of and change in languages

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