Author: Daniel Pettersson, M.A.

Ad Alpes (ch. 1–12) coming tomorrow to Legentibus!

Update: Ad Alpes is pub­lished now! You can down­load the book here. We’re launch­ing the new, Leg­en­tibus ver­sion of Ad alpes — A tale of Roman Life (chap­ters 1–12) tomor­row. It’s one of the best Latin read­ers ever writ­ten. Brief recap of what it is and who it’s suit­ed for: Ad Alpes is a nov­el-like […]

One of the most requested books is coming to Legentibus

In 2017, we repub­lished a book called Ad Alpes — A Tale of Roman Life. It is a sort of Latin nov­el from the 1920’s writ­ten at an upper inter­me­di­ate / advanced lev­el Latin. It con­sists of a frame sto­ry that fol­lows a Roman fam­i­ly on their way long jour­ney. Dur­ing the trip, they tell […]

New version of Legentibus (2.8) is out!

I’m very hap­py to present Leg­en­tibus 2.8 to you. This update aims to solve a very com­mon prob­lem learn­ers have, the ques­tions: “What should I read now? What should I read next?” In the video, I present the cen­tral ways in which we aim to solve this issue and make it easy to find and […]

Adding more images to the upcoming beginner course

Mini update: the text of mod­ules 1–3 of the new course (which will con­tain the Auda nov­el as part of a larg­er whole) is get­ting to quite a pol­ished state. I want to revise it some more before hand­ing it off to some learned friends for final proof read­ing. Today I am adding some new […]

Course updates!

Many have asked when the new ver­sion of the begin­ner course is com­ing. I can­not yet say for cer­tain but I hope we can launch it dur­ing the fall. Here’s a brief update. The new ver­sion of the begin­ner course is large­ly some­thing com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent. At itds core will remain the adven­ture nov­el about Auda […]

The new Beginner Course: Latin in Latin?

So, some updates. The last months my cen­tral focus, lit­er­al­ly night and day, has been on revis­ing and rewrit­ing and great­ly expand­ing what began as the adven­ture nov­el Auda.  My vision for the course changed some­time around march or may. I have been hard at work since craft­ing a nov­el in latin for begin­ners (a […]

Revising module two of the upcoming version of the beginner course

As I men­tioned in a video a few posts ago, I am revis­ing and build­ing out the nov­el into a full stand­alone course with lots of addi­tion­al mate­ri­als. I’m cur­rent­ly revis­ing the mate­ri­als for mod­ule two, with a par­tic­u­lar focus on vocab­u­lary intro­duc­tion and reuse so that it nev­er becomes over­whelm­ing for a new learn­er. […]

Is it bad to use translations for learning Latin?

In this video I rant about the peren­ni­al ques­tion of whether it’s good or bad to use trans­la­tions when learn­ing Latin. We’ll talk about the ben­e­fits but also the risks to avoid.

Update about Auda and the Beginner course

Late last year, in Decem­ber, I start­ed work on a nov­el (not novel­la 😉) called “Auda” for begin­ner Latin learn­ers. We’ve pub­lished 7 chap­ters thus far on Leg­en­tibus. Now, I am adding more mate­ri­als and build­ing it out sub­stan­tial­ly with dia­logues and addi­tion­al read­ings for each chap­ter of the nov­el. In this video, I go […]

Seneca’s letters book 3 coming soon!

After Augus­tine, we are jump­ing back in time a bit, to Seneca! I’m edit­ing the audio and then we have a few oth­er resources we need to cre­ate for the book, and, of course, proof­read and lis­ten through it a few times. But you should see anoth­er vol­ume of Seneca’s let­ters quite soon here on […]