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Spooky season is upon us! 🎃👻

As the nights grow longer and the air turns crisp, ancient tales begin to stir… 🌙🦇 What bet­ter way to get into the Hal­loween spir­it than with some chill­ing tales… in Latin? We’ve curat­ed a col­lec­tion of spooky sto­ries per­fect for a dark and stormy night. Light a can­dle, open one of the fol­low­ing books, […]

Repetition is key for language learning 🔁

Have you ever fin­ished a chap­ter and thought: “Done. What’s next? I need to keep mov­ing for­ward to make progress.” This is the false belief that learn­ing only hap­pens when you are con­sum­ing brand-new mate­r­i­al. It treats Latin like a check­list to be com­plet­ed rather than a skill to be devel­oped. But this con­stant chase […]

New literal translation now available 📖

Fab­u­la de Cor­ne­lio Lentu­lo got an update today and you can now use the Eng­lish trans­la­tion. Sim­ply down­load or open the book here. One more gen­er­al note on trans­la­tions: You will some­times see a Latin present-tense verb, like dīc­it (“he/she says”), trans­lat­ed into the Eng­lish past tense as “he/she said.” This is not a mis­take but a […]

Ianua, and the problem with roman doors

I just had to share this with you because I’m so hap­py with how it’s turn­ing out. It’s not quite done yet, but almost.  Daniel asked me to illus­trate the word ian­ua (door) for the new course. Now, a door is just a rec­tan­gle with a han­dle. But a roman ian­ua… now that’s a chal­lenge. […]

Literal translation for “Fabula de C. Lentulo”

I’ve now com­plet­ed a rough first draft of a lit­er­al trans­la­tion for our book Fab­u­la de C. Lentu­lo. The novel­la traces Lentu­lus’s jour­ney from child­hood to adult­hood. Through his every­day experiences—playing with sib­lings, trav­el­ing to Pom­peii, and study­ing in Rome—it pro­vides a win­dow into dai­ly life, mak­ing it a valu­able read for inter­me­di­ate Latin learn­ers. […]

Legentibus 2.8 in the works

Today I want­ed to give you a lit­tle pre­view of an upcom­ing update to the app: For this com­ing update to the app (as well as for the com­ing com­put­er ver­sion), we realised that we want­ed to make some restruc­tur­ing of the user inter­face, and in par­tic­u­lar mak­ing it eas­i­er to explore and find the […]

“Evangelium secundum Lucam” now available 🥳

✅ Latin text syn­chro­nized with audio (eccle­si­as­ti­cal pro­nun­ci­a­tion; nar­ra­tor: Abel Schutte) ✅ lit­er­al Eng­lish trans­la­tion ✅ com­men­tary This book presents the Evan­geli­um secun­dum Lucam, the “Gospel accord­ing to Luke,” based on the Clemen­tine Vul­gate. Our ver­sion includes Latin audio (eccle­si­as­ti­cal pro­nun­ci­a­tion), a lit­er­al Eng­lish trans­la­tion and a com­men­tary. The impor­tance of the Gospel of Luke to the Chris­t­ian faith and to […]

The comparison trap

Have you ever scrolled online and seen some­one else’s progress in Latin and thought: “Wow, they are so far ahead of me. I’ll nev­er catch up.” This is the Com­par­i­son Trap, and it is one of the fastest ways to steal your joy and moti­va­tion. It mea­sures your unique, per­son­al jour­ney against some­one else’s. But […]

Evangelium secundum Lucam (Versio Vulgata)

Final­ly, you’re get­ting anoth­er update from me. 😀 I’ve been total­ly busy with a big project over the last weeks, name­ly com­pil­ing the Gospel of Luke for you. Our book will be based on the Vul­gate, and the audio will be in eccle­si­as­ti­cal pro­nun­ci­a­tion. I found a rel­a­tive­ly good trans­la­tion (Catholic Pub­lic Domain Ver­sion), but […]

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 […]