Want to practice your Latin with some fun stories you've probably never heard? Then this is the right place. Today I discuss the mythical sea monsters that plagued the North of old; I discuss among other things stories about monsters in Lake, Thor, and a giant...
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Daniel Pettersson
Learn Latin With Video and Audio: 70 Hours of Spoken Latin
Through the years, in my different language learning endeavors, I’ve always marveled at how much I have been able to improve my overall ability in a language (especially French) through simply listening to as much (level appropriate) content as possible in the target...
A Guide to Latin Place Names and Their Meanings
Sometimes you come across Latin place names like Roma, Athenae, or Carthago; sometimes you come across place names like Lula, Falcopia, or Boërosia. It is then that the devious dictionaries fail you, staring blankly back at you. Luckily, all is not...
Nuntii Latini – News in Latin One Last Time
Nuntii Latini When I started teaching Latin using a spoken component some seven years ago, hearing Latin was a rare thing, at least in my world. But for the last couple of years at international conferences where I've given talks and summer courses I've taught at,...
Halloween Special in Latin #2 — Two Ghost Stories in Latin
In this year's Halloween special all in Latin, I tell you two scary, scary stories from Stockholm of centuries past: a ninth century monk, and a haunted palace. Not scared enough? Check out all our Halloween specials in Latin Latin video https://youtu.be/PyLw9SGP2QE...
How to Learn Latin From Your Things
This is a picture of our spices. In Sweden, the bottles don't come with Latin names. So whence these sapient spices? Read on. In his De ratione studii, the grand humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam gave great advice on how to learn expressions, sayings, and proverbs. In...
Smith & Hall’s English-Latin Dictionary Now on Latinitium.com
Introduction Big news that will make writing and speaking Latin a whole lot easier! The English-Latin dictionary of Smith & Hall, originally published in 1871 under the title A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary, is widely regarded as the best and...
The “true” location of Atlantis (Essay in Latin)
Atlantis. The mere mention of it conjures up mythical speculations and ambitious quests for the truth. Today, we treat the story of Atlantis but go beyond the standard sources such as Plato; we will discuss 17th-century author Olaus Rudbeck's original and, of course,...
A Guide to Dictionaries of Latin Synonyms – How to Tell the Difference
Has this ever happened to you? You’re happily reading a Latin text when you come across a word you’re not sure about. You open the dictionary, look up the word, learn the definition, go back to reading. A little further down you stumble on another word. Same...





















