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December 2007 Blog Posts (34)

Holiday Song: Christe, Redemptor Omnium

For the 2008 Christmas carols, visit the Gaudium Mundo blog.

Added by Laura Gibbs on December 11, 2007 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Holiday Song: Adeste Fideles

For the 2008 Christmas carols, visit the Gaudium Mundo blog.

Added by Laura Gibbs on December 10, 2007 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Latinum half millionth download approaches

The Latinum Podcast http://latinum.mypodcast.com is almost at its half millionth download, as I write this, a number of downloads I certainly never expected to see. There is now a steady 100 000 downloads per month. Users are scattered all over the world - Australia, Korea, Vietnam, New Zealand, and of course, Europe and the Americas. There are over 1 000 regular down loaders of the lessons and recordings, and around 15 to 20 new users find their way to the podcast every day.

Of late,… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on December 10, 2007 at 12:22pm — 1 Comment

Another setting of Resonet in Laudibus

A propos of Laura's most recent post in her Christmas songs series, there is also a rather lovely 19th century setting of this carol by Anselm Schubiger (1815-1888). A PDF of the music is downloadable via the ChoralWiki page. This setting uses only three verses of… Continue

Added by Raphaela on December 9, 2007 at 7:46am — No Comments

Holiday Song: Resonet in Laudibus

For the 2008 Christmas carols, visit the Gaudium Mundo blog.

Added by Laura Gibbs on December 8, 2007 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

Holiday Song: Angeli Canunt Praecones

For the 2008 Christmas carols, visit the Gaudium Mundo blog.

Added by Laura Gibbs on December 7, 2007 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Holiday Song: Somnio Candidum Diem

For the 2008 Christmas carols, visit the Gaudium Mundo blog.

Added by Laura Gibbs on December 6, 2007 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Holiday Song: O Viri, Este Hilares

For the 2008 Christmas carols, visit the Gaudium Mundo blog.

Added by Laura Gibbs on December 5, 2007 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Latin Compositions

I was looking around online to see if I could find any Latin creative writing written by contemporary writers...I was aware of the poetry page run by Suberic, however, I was looking for prose - short stories and the like.

I have not found anything. A couple of blogs here and there, but no literature as such.

I don't mean academic writing. I mean creative writing.

I know Laura Gibbs encourages her students to write compositions. Maybe, Laura, you even have a few hanging… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on December 4, 2007 at 3:36pm — 1 Comment

Because hearing something, even when I'm doing the speaking myself, makes it much easier to internalise and learn than when I'm just seeing the printed words on the page.
Because reading out loud is the only way I can think of to make sure I really know where the stress, at least, should go in any word in any given oblique case, never mind the vowel…

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Added by Raphaela on December 3, 2007 at 4:26am — 19 Comments