Author: Daniel Pettersson, M.A.

Augustine’s Confessions, Book 1 on Legentibus! (audio + new translation)

I’m very glad to announce that the first book of Augustine’s Con­fes­sions (Con­fes­sion­um liber primus) is now avail­able on Leg­en­tibus. This ver­sion con­tains: ✅ Latin audio­book nar­ra­tion synced to the Latin text (in Eccle­si­as­ti­cal pro­nun­ci­a­tion) ✅ Leg­en­tibus lit­er­al trans­la­tion (our new trans­la­tion type devel­oped to help learn­ers under­stand quick­ly) This great nar­ra­tion was done by […]

Augustine is coming to Legentibus!

One of the most request­ed texts is Augustine’s Con­fes­sions. Today I have good news: we are now work­ing with a new nar­ra­tor to bring the first book to life–in eccle­si­as­ti­cal pro­nun­ci­a­tion. I don’t yet have a pub­li­ca­tion date but it should not be too long! Stay tuned!

Some updates on Porta Latina

Dur­ing proof lis­ten­ing we noticed some minor issues in the audio that I’m now going back and fix­ing. We should be able to pub­lish the book on Leg­en­tibus with audio and notes in a cou­ple of days. Have a great week!

Late night dialogues.

The last cou­ple of days I have been work­ing on a set of dia­logues in the uni­verse of Auda to allow for more review of vocab and syn­tax while still mak­ing it fun–which isnt all that easy when the num­ber of words is very very lim­it­ed. Any­way, this evening, I went down to the local […]

🎉 Auda chapter 7 is now out!

After many days of record­ing, edit­ing, trans­lat­ing, illus­trat­ing, and proof lis­ten­ing, we can final­ly announce that the next installe­ment of our adven­ture nov­el for Latin learn­ers is out. Auda and Wulfi­nus are nowhere to be seen and the Romans are furi­ous. Cras­sus is enjoy­ing his vengeance when he gets a pleas­ant sur­prise… Tap here to […]

Familia Romana: images and marginal notes coming to Legentibus

We are very hap­py to announce that the first five chap­ters of Famil­ia Romana are now avail­able with the orig­i­nal illus­tra­tions and mar­gin­al notes. Viviana has done an excep­tion­al and dili­gent job with bring­ing these to the Leg­en­tibus ver­sion of Famil­ia Romana! More chap­ters are in the works. The first vol­ume (chap­ters 1–12) of Famil­ia […]

🎙️ Auda cap. VII in the works

Dur­ing the east­er I put the final touch­es on the text of the next chap­ter of Auda (the begin­ner Latin nov­el I’m writ­ing). I’ve fin­ished record­ing the audio and now I am edit­ing it, remov­ing bad takes, choos­ing what voic­es work best for the var­i­ous char­ac­ters and so on. It’ll take a while to get […]

Martial almost done

We have been work­ing on a book with selec­tions from Mar­tial’s epi­grams for the last cou­ple of months. I had a great time record­ing them, mak­ing dif­fer­ent voic­es for Mar­tial’s char­ac­ters that he often briefly uses. Any­way, I’m now going through my record­ings and edit­ing the audio. Should be out very soon.

Auto turn

When you reach the end of a chap­ter, by default the audio will stop and will not con­tin­ue to the next chap­ter. The best way to improve is to go slow and reread and relis­ten before mov­ing on to the next chap­ter. How­ev­er, if you want to blaze through a book, you can always turn […]

Welcome to the Legentibus news feed!

Salve! With Leg­en­tibus 2.7 we are intro­duc­ing the Leg­en­tibus Feed. This will be a place where we can share news about texts, fea­tures and things we are work­ing on. We’ll also be able to reply to com­mon ques­tions and give tips on how to best use Leg­en­tibus. Feel free to take a look at the […]