Learn Latin With Audio: 50 Hours of Spoken Latin

Listening To Latin: Audio and Video

Note! See this updat­ed list of Spo­ken Latin audio and video instead.

Through the years, in my dif­fer­ent lan­guage learn­ing endeav­ours, I’ve always mar­velled 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 lan­guage, every day.

The last few years I’ve been on the look out for any and all videos of skilled Latin speak­ers to lis­ten to. Not too long ago the num­ber of videos avail­able was not that extensive.

Luck­i­ly things are chang­ing: the amount of record­ings of speech­es and lec­tures held in Latin is increas­ing rapid­ly, mak­ing expos­ing our­selves to immense amounts Latin eas­i­er than ever.

Adding More Latin Audio 

I’ve col­lect­ed videos from all over YouTube into a playlist to watch/listen to and I thought I would share it. It con­tains videos of Lui­gi Miraglia, Nan­cy Llewellyn, Ter­ence Tun­berg, Vil­fried Stroh and many more. It is by no means com­plete, but I have tried to include what I have found thus far.

At present it con­tains over 120 videos and over 50 hours of spo­ken Latin. If you think any videos should be added, please let me know by e‑mail or Twit­ter or Face­book.

Playback Speed

The Latin of some of these speak­ers can be quite fast if you aren’t used to hear­ing Latin. If that is the case, I rec­om­mend using YouTube’s dif­fer­ent play­back speeds. To choose play­back speed select (in the YouTube player):

• set­tings (the cog wheel) > speed

Click the image below to access the playlist of spo­ken Latin!

Frui­mi­ni!