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Plus, a great lineup of active Latin courses this Fall 🍂 Fall into Latin: Courses for Every Level In a little over a week, I’m starting my second season of classes with the amazing Latinitas Animi Causa. The 4 courses I taught over 5 weeks of last summer were some of the most fun I’ve
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Five weeks of shadows begin this July. You’ve made it through Familia Rōmāna. You’ve dipped into novellas, readers, podcasts and videos. You’re now at a point where you can do without that dictionary, sight-reading adapted prose with relative confidence. You feel good about your progress, but you want more. You want to finally progress from textbook Latin
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Plus, useful animal sayings in Latin! Is it a mini-podcast? I decided to record a little of what I think about Latinitas and when it’s useful to think about it, announce that I’m writing a new novella, and discuss resources I use when I write: Topics in this discussion: Useful animal sayings in Latin If you follow us
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Plus, offensive things Caesar allegedly said Cavete Idus Martias! What did Caesar do that supposedly provoked the conspirators into action on the Ides of March in 44 B.C. ? We’ve made an intermediate-advanced Latin video detailing the reasons given in Roman sources. We chose to cover the Periocha, a paraphrase by an anonymous author, of Livy’s Ab
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Plus, 20% off until the Ides of March. It was time for an update! Two years ago, I compiled a list of Latin Youtube channels primarily in Latin. Unfortunately, quite a few of those channels have stopped making content, but we’ve gained several high quality channels. I’ve updated the list to include those channels, removed
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Plus, a SALE and new “Latin Basics” video Special edition I’ve recorded a special video this week that is new for the newsletter! As you may have noticed, I post a lot of Latin sayings and proverbs. (This is probably an understatement.) This video, though it contains some discussion, is an abbreviated version of a
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Plus, classroom sets of our reader and more amor ❤ De Animalibus Callidis So, they aren’t exactly new, but they are new to Youtube! We present three tales about cunning animals in intermediate Latin with delightful illustrations. You can be entertained by these stories about a resourceful rat, a quick-witted bat, and a nimble mouse
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Plus, a Latin letter to Santa She’s here! We’re not sure if she’s made a list or has checked it twice — and we do not want to be on it at all if she has — but Erictho has finally come to town! Our tiered Latin reader about Erictho in Lucan’s Pharsalia is now available on Amazon
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Plus, we finally hit “publish!” + an Etsy flash sale We finally did it! Yesterday, we hit “publish” on our tiered Latin reader, and we are just waiting for Amazon to let our book go live. We think that tiered readers like Erictho, Tartarorum Terror are the best way for intermediate-level learners to start reading authentic Latin
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A Roman spell to raise the dead Why was an ancient witch trying to make a zombie? They’re the best prophets, don’t cha’ know? In book VI of Bellum Civile (aka Pharsalia) by the Roman poet Lucan, we encounter the Thessalian witch Erictho who is desperately in search of a prophecy. However, she realizes that
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