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Barba caerulea (“Bluebeard”) coming on Thursday!

It’s time for anoth­er fairy tale! What would you do if you were giv­en the keys to an entire man­sion and told there was just one room you must nev­er open? Per­rault’s Blue­beard is a tale of temp­ta­tion and secrets. 🔑 We can’t wait to share our Latin edi­tion with you. I’ve already made a […]

The joy of rereading 📚

Have you ever thought: “I’ve already read this sto­ry. I should move on to some­thing new”? We live in a cul­ture obsessed with nov­el­ty, where fin­ish­ing and mov­ing for­ward feels like progress. But in lan­guage learn­ing, reread­ing is where the mag­ic hap­pens. The first time you read a sto­ry, you’re focused on sur­vival, just try­ing […]

Petrarch’s letters to Cicero coming on Monday! 📜

UPDATE: The book is now avail­able! You can down­load it here. The book will present two let­ters writ­ten by Francesco Petrar­ca (1304–1374) addressed to the Roman states­man and ora­tor Mar­cus Tul­lius Cicero (106–43 BC). In 1345, Petrar­ch dis­cov­ered a man­u­script of Cicero’s Epis­tu­lae ad Atticum in the Chap­ter Library of Verona. This dis­cov­ery pro­vid­ed Petrar­ch with his […]

You’re learning while you sleep 😴

Ever won­der what hap­pens to all that Latin you read and lis­ten to dur­ing the day? Here’s some­thing amaz­ing: your brain does­n’t stop work­ing when you close the app. While you sleep, it’s busy sort­ing, con­nect­ing, and con­sol­i­dat­ing every­thing you learned. This is why you some­times wake up and a sen­tence that con­fused you yes­ter­day […]

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 […]

Full dark mode support

We are hap­py to announce that some­thing a lot of you have been wait­ing for final­ly is here: dark mode is now ful­ly sup­port­ed in all parts of the app! You can switch between light mode and dark mode both in the app menu and in the set­tings in the books: Full dark mode sup­port […]

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 […]

The power of tiny habits 🌱

“I don’t have time to learn Latin. I’m too busy.” This is one of the most com­mon rea­sons peo­ple give up before they even start. It assumes that mean­ing­ful progress requires mas­sive time com­mit­ments. But what if you could make real progress in just 10 min­utes a day? The truth is, con­sis­ten­cy beats inten­si­ty every […]

Matrona Ephesia (“The Widow of Ephesus”) now available 🥳

From the Satyri­con by Petro­n­ius (1st cen­tu­ry AD) ✅ Latin text syn­chro­nized with audio (clas­si­cal pro­nun­ci­a­tion, nar­ra­tor: Daniel Pet­ters­son) A sol­dier, sta­tioned at a ceme­tery to guard cru­ci­fied crim­i­nals, notices a light flick­er­ing among the tombs. Dri­ven by curios­i­ty, he enters the crypt, set­ting the stage for a con­fronta­tion between the mourn­ing of the dead […]

Quick update on the Immersion Course

A quick update from me. 😊 I’m cur­rent­ly focus­ing main­ly on adding more inter­lin­ear trans­la­tions (or “trans­la­tion bub­bles”), images, and notes to the Immer­sion Course. This week I fin­ished Lev­el 6 (yippee! 🎉) and I’m already work­ing on Lev­el 7. Of course, we will con­tin­ue to pub­lish new books reg­u­lar­ly, but some of them won’t […]