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Centrum Latinitatis Europae now in English!

Hi all, I announce that now it is possible to read in English too (and French, German, Irish, Spanish) the site of classical studies of "Centrum Latinitatis Europae" of Genoa (Italy) ! http://cle.altervista.org

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Added by Andrea Del Ponte on December 18, 2012 at 9:30am — No Comments

Latin Language Education - Historical Outline of a Method.

A historical perspective on Latin/Greek teaching : Evan der Millner This topic is a very wide ranging one – and a brief essay such as this, can only hope to cover the subject giving the barest of outlines. In this essay, I will mainly concern myself with what could be called the Rudiments of language education. I will also point out that some 'new' methods are actually not new at all. We are fortunate in knowing rather a lot about how the Romans went about teaching their…

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Added by Latinum Institute on December 17, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments

Happy Anniversary Schola

Schola is two years old this…

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Added by Latinum Institute on February 21, 2010 at 9:39am — No Comments

The Locutorium Rocks

Three days ago, the usual suspects were chatting away in the viva voce locutorium when someone had the idea to message everyone in Schola (over 1200 members now).

Suddenly, the locutorium came alive, faces we had never seen before appeared, and the conversation went on for some hours.

Yesterday we did the same thing again - this time, the regulars had been given… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on December 25, 2009 at 7:51pm — No Comments

Saxum Rosettae - The Rosetta Stone text in Latin

The Rosetta Stone is one of those seminal texts - something we have all read about, and recognise the importance of - but how many have ever read it, or know anything about the contents of it?

This short reading of the Rosetta Stone in Latin, is something of a curiosity, presents Heyne's translation into Latin of the Greek text of the inscription, read in restored Classical Latin on Latinum by Evan Millner.

Heyne, Commentatio… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on December 14, 2009 at 12:50pm — No Comments

Exercitatio relaxationis

Exercitationem relaxationis vultis mecum facere?

Sumite igitur parvum spatium ad animum et corpum vestrum relaxandum.

Claudite oculos et audite tantum vocem meam et… Continue

Added by santi on October 8, 2009 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Collegium Poetarum

In London, we are trying a new experiment - we have noticed members come along to the Circulus Latinus, but who don't have the skills to speak conversationally, but who are still very interested in Latin, as a 'performance language', for want of a better term.

We have decided to resurrect the ancient Collegium Poetarum online as an NING group, to seed something new. We will be holding our first meeting in London this… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on July 3, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Latin in LOTRO (Lord of the Rings Online)

Over the past couple months, I've managed to convince several of my Connecticut latin-teaching colleagues to play "The Lord of the Rings Online" (LOTRO) with me, partly as an adjunct to the Living Epic and Gaming Homer courses I started teaching in January (cf. my blog, Living Epic and the Video Games and Human Values Initiative; UConn also did a fun little… Continue

Added by Roger Travis on May 25, 2009 at 8:47am — 1 Comment

Breaking News: College Board statement on AP Latin Literature, Sept. 18, 2008

New from the College Board:

AP Latin Literature

We at the College Board value the study of Latin just as we value the study of other subjects ranging from biology to German to art history, for each of which we offer one high-quality AP Examination. We want to provide the same level of support for Latin as we do for other AP subject reas, but this entails focusing our efforts on one rather than two separate P Latin courses. It is the opinion of our World Languages Academic… Continue

Added by Andrew Reinhard on September 18, 2008 at 11:50am — 10 Comments

"Latin undergoing a resurgence among students" article in Staten Island Advance, 3 August

Thanks to Ronnie Ancona for this link to an article about increasing Latin enrollments in the state of New York:

http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1217757629139030.xml&coll=1

Added by Andrew Reinhard on August 4, 2008 at 10:23am — No Comments

American Classical League, 2008: To Infinitive and Beyond!

The American Classical League Summer Institute concluded yesterday with the traditional Latin singalong led, as always, by Stan Farrow. As we sang "Guadeamus Igitur" and other chestnuts, I began reflecting on the Insitute's program, and of the many, many teachers I had a chance to speak with regarding technology and teaching Latin and yes, Greek.

To keep with the focus of eClassics, there were a number of technology-themed papers presented, and a number of handouts have been made… Continue

Added by Andrew Reinhard on June 30, 2008 at 8:27pm — No Comments

Old(er) Teachers, New(er) Technology: An Informal ACL Breakfast Chat

I had the good fortune to bump into eClassics member Nicholas Young who has been teaching Latin at the high school and university levels for 38 years. It was breakfast-time at the American Classical League Summer Institute, and instead of going to some crazily early pre-conference workshop, we both had the same idea of drinking organic, free-trade coffee (all you can hold, and the only stuff that is offered by the University of New Hampshire), and kibbutzing with friends and colleagues. We… Continue

Added by Andrew Reinhard on June 27, 2008 at 8:57am — No Comments

NEW ON 'LATINUM'- FABULAE FACILES

This week, a new feature has been added to 'Latinum ' - reading of easy stories culled form a wide variety of old Latin reading books - these range from Mythology, to American History. At this point, Adler has covered enough grammar to enable users who have followed the lessons until this point, to cope quite well with simple Latin texts read aloud. These will help the users to consolidate their Latin, and will present a wider variety of material.

I do not claim to be a particularly… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on May 25, 2008 at 5:53am — No Comments

Gesta Recentissima Scholae

Ioannes Franciscus Dublierus instituit disceptationem "Skyscraper/gratte-ciel/Wolkenkratzer/grattacielo/rascielos latine." in VOCABULARIUM.

Tomaeus et Baloc et Metrodorus, et Martinus Ionhannesque sententiam aperuit et adnotatiōnem reliqvit dē cyberdiariī ascriptiōne Dies internationalis contra homophobiam.

Metrodorus addidit 300 photographias

Ascriptiones Cyberdiarii:

Boris ille Johnson, Ordinatrum novum, Die Saturni,

Laborans,Reticulatio… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on May 24, 2008 at 8:31am — No Comments

Distribution of Latinum Podcast users for first two weeks of May 2008

Curious as to where the thousands of daily lessons downloads from the Latinum podcast's online course in spoken Classical Latin are coming from, I signed up to ClusterMaps. Much to my surprise, there are users scattered across the globe, with predictable concentrations in Europe and the Americas. More surprising were the locations of other users - Mecca, Cairo, Dubai?, Tunisia, Iran, and a number in China, Japan and Indonesian archipelago, and a few… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on May 13, 2008 at 3:30am — No Comments