Author: Viviana Kleinlercher, M.A.

“Vita sancti Christophori” in the works

A lit­tle update from me. I’m cur­rent­ly work­ing on a new book, name­ly the account of the life of Saint Christo­pher. The sto­ry of Saint Christo­pher, the giant who unknow­ing­ly car­ried the Christ child across a rag­ing riv­er, is one of the most endur­ing and beloved leg­ends of the medieval world. The book will present […]

“Ora maritima” has a literal translation now

While I was trans­lat­ing the book, I wished more than once that I could live on the seashore and go on trips and walks there! 🌊 But read­ing about it is also a plea­sure, espe­cial­ly in Latin. If you would like to go on a lit­tle trip to the sea and hear excit­ing sto­ries about […]

Literal translation for “Ora maritima” in progress

Ora Mar­iti­ma is a novel­la, or at least, a con­tin­u­ous nar­ra­tive in rather sim­ple Latin. The ‘sto­ry’ is set in 20th cen­tu­ry Eng­land and fol­lows school­boys dur­ing the sum­mer vaca­tion as they dis­cov­er and learn about Caesar’s inva­sion of Britain. I recent­ly reread the book and it’s per­fect for sum­mer. That’s why I’m already work­ing […]

New literal translation available ✨

Our pop­u­lar read­er, XXI Fabel­lae Aesopi (read by David Amster)—a col­lec­tion of 21 sim­ple fables per­fect for upper-beginners—now includes a lit­er­al trans­la­tion. While you enjoy a sto­ry, you can instant­ly check your under­stand­ing with the trans­la­tion when­ev­er you’re unsure about some­thing. It’s the best way to build con­fi­dence and ensure you’re on the right track. You can down­load […]

More literal translations 📖

I’m also reg­u­lar­ly work­ing on lit­er­al trans­la­tions for the books that have already been pub­lished. Thanks to your feed­back, we know that many of you find these trans­la­tions very help­ful. At the moment I’m trans­lat­ing XXI Fabel­lae Aesopi. It’s quite a short book, so it should­n’t take me too long to trans­late it. We should […]

Literal translation for Seneca’s letters

I’ve fin­ished trans­lat­ing the let­ters in book 3 as lit­er­al­ly as pos­si­ble (proof­read­ing is still to be done). 🎉 The lit­er­al trans­la­tions are usu­al­ly the most time-con­­sum­ing part of work­ing on a new book. That’s why I’m already work­ing on it long before we announce the book here in the feed. But I think it’s […]

The Power of Consistency ⚡️

Gut­ta cavat lapi­dem, non vi, sed saepe caden­do. — “A water drop hol­lows a stone not by force, but by falling often.” This Latin proverb is a pow­er­ful reminder for all of us learn­ing a lan­guage. It’s not about spend­ing hours cram­ming once a week. It’s about those con­sis­tent 5–15 min­utes every sin­gle day. That’s […]

Tip regarding dictionaries

When you read a book with an inter­lin­ear trans­la­tion, you can tap on the indi­vid­ual words and you’ll see the trans­la­tion in a “trans­la­tion bub­ble”. How­ev­er, if you would still like to see the dic­tio­nary entries for this word to read more about it, you can sim­ply long press on the word and then select […]

Translation for Augustine’s Confessions

Late­ly I’ve been con­cen­trat­ing on trans­lat­ing the first book of the Con­fes­siones and the draft is now fin­ished. I’ll now proof­read the trans­la­tion and make fur­ther improve­ments, but we’re already get­ting clos­er to pub­li­ca­tion. 😀 I always try to keep our Leg­en­tibus trans­la­tions as lit­er­al as pos­si­ble, but this is often dif­fi­cult with a text […]

“Porta Latina” now available 🎉

F.G. Moore trans­lat­ed 50 of La Fontaine’s French fables into Latin using a rich and ele­gant style. The lev­el of the Latin makes them most suit­able for upper inter­me­di­ate learn­ers but thanks to the notes and built-in dic­tio­nar­ies they can also be enjoy­able for low­er inter­me­di­ate learn­ers that want a bit of a chal­lenge. You […]