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Latinum Institute's Blog – December 2007 Archive (2)

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

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