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Walk the path 🛤️

A gram­mar book is a map. But a sto­ry is a path. You can spend all your time star­ing at the map, try­ing to mem­o­rize every land­mark before you start. Or you can start walk­ing the path and let the sto­ry guide you. Don’t wor­ry if you don’t rec­og­nize every­thing you see. Just keep putting […]

“The Sleeping Beauty” now available 🎉

✅ Latin text syn­chro­nized with audio (clas­si­cal pro­nun­ci­a­tion) ✅ lit­er­al Leg­en­tibus trans­la­tion ✅ Latin com­men­tary ✅ glos­sary Bel­la puel­la in sil­vā sōpī­ta is an excel­lent Latin trans­la­tion (by Lau­rent d’Aumale) of Charles Per­rault’s French ver­sion of the fairy tale (“La Belle au bois dor­mant”). The book is suit­able for advanced read­ers. You can down­load it here.

Time for a fairy tale!

Fairy tales are the sto­ries I grew up with as a child and one of my favorites is “The Sleep­ing Beau­ty”. I’m there­fore hav­ing great fun prepar­ing an excel­lent Latin trans­la­tion (by Lau­rent d’Aumale) of Charles Per­rault’s French ver­sion for pub­li­ca­tion. Bel­la puel­la in sil­vā sōpī­ta includes a Latin com­men­tary and also gets a lit­er­al […]

Castellum

I’m work­ing on an illus­tra­tion of an aux­il­iary fort for the new ver­sion of the Leg­en­tibus course. Two things struck me whilst draw­ing: Here’s a rather messy sketch.  Have a lati­nous day!

The myth of speed

Have you ever found your­self think­ing: “I read so slow­ly. At this pace, I’ll nev­er get through a real book.” This myth of speed is a trap that turns learn­ing into a race against a clock that does­n’t exist. It cre­ates anx­i­ety and pres­sure, forc­ing you to rush past the very details that build true […]

Book recommendation: Metamorphoses (Ovid)

I’ve recent­ly start­ed read­ing and, above all, lis­ten­ing to our selec­tion of Ovid’s Meta­mor­phoses again and can high­ly rec­om­mend the book, espe­cial­ly to advanced read­ers. The Meta­mor­phoses, con­sist­ing of fif­teen books, is the best-known of Ovid’s works. In our edi­tion we’ve col­lect­ed some of the most famous tales, all explor­ing time­less themes such as love, […]

Mini lesson: Roman naming conventions

Roman nam­ing con­ven­tions typ­i­cal­ly had three main parts. Praenō­men: The first name, like a per­son­al name (e.g. “C.” is short for Gāius. The abbre­vi­a­tion C. for Gāius is a rel­ic of ear­ly Latin orthog­ra­phy, when the let­ter C was used for both the /k/ and /g/ sounds. Even after the let­ter G was intro­duced, the […]

The new Beginner Course: Latin in Latin?

So, some updates. The last months my cen­tral focus, lit­er­al­ly night and day, has been on revis­ing and rewrit­ing and great­ly expand­ing what began as the adven­ture nov­el Auda.  My vision for the course changed some­time around march or may. I have been hard at work since craft­ing a nov­el in latin for begin­ners (a […]

Illustrations in the making

I’m work­ing on illus­tra­tions for the new ver­sion of the Leg­en­tibus course. We want to fill the new ver­sion with as many illus­tra­tions as pos­si­ble to make it eas­i­er to under­stand the plot and the lan­guage, and eas­i­er to remem­ber words and phras­es. I have a lot to draw and I’ll try to share some […]

The power of listening 🎧

Many believe that since Latin is often con­sid­ered a dead lan­guage, lis­ten­ing does­n’t mat­ter. This is one of the biggest myths hold­ing learn­ers back. Your brain is hard­wired to learn lan­guage through sound. Lis­ten­ing isn’t just a bonus fea­ture. It’s a super­pow­er for your learn­ing. ✅ It cements gram­mar and vocab­u­lary in your mind. ✅ […]