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The struggle with memorization 🤯

Do you find it quite dif­fi­cult to mem­o­rize Latin vocab­u­lary and gram­mar? Per­haps you spend hours cre­at­ing flash­cards and stare at charts of declen­sions and con­ju­ga­tions. Per­haps you try to force hun­dreds of words into your brain, only to find they’ve van­ished a week lat­er. It feels like you’re pour­ing water into a leaky buck­et. […]

“Psyche et Cupido” now available

✅ Latin text syn­chro­nized with audio (clas­si­cal pro­nun­ci­a­tion, nar­ra­tor: Daniel Pet­ters­son) ✅ com­men­tary One of the great trag­ic love sto­ries from antiq­ui­ty is that of Psy­che and Cupid. It comes down to us as a part of the 2nd cen­tu­ry nov­el the “Gold­en Ass” by Apuleius. We here present an adapt­ed ver­sion in a more […]

Legentibus for Windows and Mac

As many of you know, we have been work­ing on some­thing I know that many of you have been wait­ing for: Leg­en­tibus for Win­dows and Mac! Now it is final­ly here! You can now read, lis­ten, fol­low all the cours­es and use all the fea­tures of the mobile ver­sion but on desk­tops and lap­tops. We […]

Book recommendation: “Preces Nataliciae” 🙏🏻

If you cel­e­brate Christ­mas, you might want to take a look at our Christ­mas col­lec­tion of prayers, hymns, and songs, cho­sen and recit­ed by Father Mateo Mar­i­ano, suit­able for var­i­ous occa­sions and moments of reflec­tion. 💫 The book is avail­able to every­one free of charge and you can down­load it here.

“Little Red Riding-Hood” just published 👵🏻 🐺

✅ Latin text syn­chro­nized with audio (clas­si­cal pro­nun­ci­a­tion, nar­ra­tor: Lau­rent d’Aumale) ✅ lit­er­al Leg­en­tibus trans­la­tion ✅ Latin com­men­tary ✅ glos­sary Cucul­lus ruber is an excel­lent Latin trans­la­tion (by Lau­rent d’Aumale) of Charles Per­rault’s French ver­sion of the fairy tale (“Le Petit Chap­er­on-Rouge”). Our book includes a Latin com­men­tary and a lit­er­al Eng­lish trans­la­tion. Some­what more dif­fi­cult […]

You are building something 🧱

Some days, it feels like you’re not mak­ing any progress. But you are. Every time you lis­ten, you lay anoth­er stone in your foun­da­tion. Every time you read, you add anoth­er brick to the wall. You might not see the whole struc­ture yet, but you are build­ing it, piece by piece. Trust the process. One […]

🌟“Vita Sancti Nicolai” now available🌟

It’s Christ­mas time! A great oppor­tu­ni­ty to explore the ori­gins of Saint Nicholas (or San­ta Claus). 🎅🏻 This medieval text, a hagiog­ra­phy of Saint Nicholas of Myra, presents a com­pre­hen­sive account of his life, char­ac­ter, and mir­a­cles. The author, Jacobus de Vor­agine (c. 1230–1298), was an Ital­ian chron­i­cler and the Arch­bish­op of Genoa. His most […]

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 […]

Feed your brain 🧠

Your brain is a pat­tern-match­ing machine. It was built to acquire lan­guage. It does­n’t need to be forced; it needs to be fed. Every time you read or lis­ten to a sto­ry in Latin, you are giv­ing your brain the raw mate­r­i­al it craves. You’re feed­ing it pat­terns, sounds, and con­text. It will do the […]

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 […]