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FR (vol. 3) updated + book recommendation

Our third vol­ume of Famil­ia Romana (chap­ters 25–35) has now been updat­ed as well! 😀 As for the sec­ond vol­ume, I’ve revised all gram­mar sec­tions at the end of the chap­ters and added many new tables. You can down­load or open the book direct­ly here. I also have a book rec­om­men­da­tion for you. I recent­ly read our Sto­ries […]

Legentibus for computers

Sal­vete! Today I want to share a sneak peek at what we‘ve been work­ing on late­ly: a new ver­sion of Leg­en­tibus that you can install and run on your Win­dows or Mac com­put­er! Many of you have request­ed this, so I’m very excit­ed to see it tak­ing shape! We’re cur­rent­ly test­ing the app and refin­ing […]

Familia Romana (vol. 2): grammar sections updated

Our sec­ond vol­ume of Famil­ia Romana (chap­ters 13–24) got an update! 😀 I’ve revised all gram­mar sec­tions at the end of the chap­ters and added many new tables, to present the con­tent more clear­ly. You can down­load or open the book direct­ly here. I’ll now con­tin­ue with vol­ume three. Have a great day! 😊

The myth of perfect memory 🧠

Have you ever looked up a word for the tenth time and thought in frus­tra­tion: “My mem­o­ry is ter­ri­ble. I’m just not retain­ing any­thing!” This is the myth of per­fect mem­o­ry, the false belief that you should learn a word once and remem­ber it for­ev­er. It treats your brain like a hard dri­ve instead of […]

Familia Romana updated

The first twelve chap­ters of Famil­ia Romana are now avail­able with the orig­i­nal images and mar­gin­al notes! 🎉 More chap­ters are in the works.

Revising module two of the upcoming version of the beginner course

As I men­tioned in a video a few posts ago, I am revis­ing and build­ing out the nov­el into a full stand­alone course with lots of addi­tion­al mate­ri­als. I’m cur­rent­ly revis­ing the mate­ri­als for mod­ule two, with a par­tic­u­lar focus on vocab­u­lary intro­duc­tion and reuse so that it nev­er becomes over­whelm­ing for a new learn­er. […]

Every word is a victory 🏆

It’s easy to focus on the words you don’t know, but what about all the ones you do? Every sen­tence you under­stand, every para­graph you read with­out stop­ping, every sto­ry you fol­low along with — that is real progress. Cel­e­brate the small wins. Each one is proof that you are get­ting bet­ter. Keep read­ing, keep […]

“Vita S. Christophori” now available

🎧 Latin text syn­chro­nized with audio (eccle­si­as­ti­cal pro­nun­ci­a­tion, nar­ra­tor: Pater Mateus Mar­i­ano) 📖 lit­er­al Leg­en­tibus trans­la­tion 📝 com­men­tary For those famil­iar with the Latin of authors like Cicero or Cae­sar, the lan­guage of the Vita S. Christophori will appear both rec­og­niz­able and dis­tinct. Medieval Latin is not a dif­fer­ent lan­guage from Clas­si­cal Latin but rather a lat­er […]

Is it bad to use translations for learning Latin?

In this video I rant about the peren­ni­al ques­tion of whether it’s good or bad to use trans­la­tions when learn­ing Latin. We’ll talk about the ben­e­fits but also the risks to avoid.

When is it okay to quit a book?

Have you ever been read­ing a sto­ry or grad­ed read­er, enjoy­ing the flow, and then sud­den­ly you hit a chap­ter where every­thing grinds to a halt? Every sen­tence is a strug­gle. You’re look­ing up every oth­er word. The joy is gone, replaced by a feel­ing of stub­born effort. Your first thought is: “I have to […]