More and more schools embrace using Latin communicatively to make learning Latin more effective and enjoyable. During the summer, there are even immersion courses where students spend days or weeks together, taking classes and speaking only Latin. Having taught...
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Daniel Pettersson
Improve Your Latin: Latin Immersion Courses this year
Note! Due to the current global situation, make sure to contact the schools to find out if online courses are available instead. One of the best ways to improve your Latin or Ancient Greek is to attend an immersion course. Every year, schools and universities...
Cómo Mejorar el Propio LatÃn en Sólo 10 Minutos al DÃa
En los últimos años muchas personas me están preguntando cómo he aprendido yo a hablar latÃn y qué pueden hacer ellos para mejorar su latÃn, ya que tienen muy poco tiempo para dedicarse a ello. Hay muchos medios con los que podemos mejorar nuestra competencia...
Cómo aprender latÃn
Aprender latÃn es la mejor decisión que he tomado en mi vida. Ser capaz de leer pasajes de Enio, reÃrme con Plauto y Terencio, ser instruido por Séneca el Joven, maravillarme con Cicerón o conmoverme hasta llorar con Ovidio –autores que vivieron hace más de 2000...
Cómo aprender latÃn a partir tu entorno
Esta es una foto de las especias que tenemos en casa. En Suecia los botes de especias no están rotulados en latÃn. Entonces, ¿cómo podemos saber el nombre de estas sabrosas especias? Continúa leyendo. En su De ratione studii, el gran humanista Erasmo de Rotterdam...
Halloween Special in Latin #4 — The Rider
Introduction to Latinitium's yearly Halloween Special – Eques Last Halloween we visited the rich well of German folktales telling a scary story from the brothers Grimm. This year we will stay in Sweden and tell you a story, not a folktale, a fairy tale or a children’s...
Herculaneum: A Tour In Latin
In 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius erupted and laid waste to many towns around the Bay of Naples. Towns like Pompeii, Stabiae, Oplontis, Boscoreale and Herculaneum. Introduction Today we are going to take a walk along the 2000-year-old streets of Herculaneum, visit Roman...
How to Learn Latin: Motivation, Goals, and Habits
Learning Latin is the best decision I ever made. Being able to read fragments of Ennius, laugh with Plautus and Terence, be chastised by Seneca Minor, dazzled by Cicero, and moved to tears by Ovid — people separated from us by over 2000 years — is today a precious...
Spoken Latin — Cicero searches for the tomb of Archimedes
Cicero's works are replete with stories and anecdotes, but my favourite is the one where he brings out his inner Indiana Jones and goes searching for the tomb of Archimedes. It is found in the fifth book of his philosophical work Tusculanae disputationes. Suggested...