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 revised and larg­er ver­sion of the cur­rent Auda sto­ry. Then I have embed­ded this sto­ry into a larg­er course with dia­logues and much extra mate­ri­als.

A month or so ago, I decid­ed to make the notes all in Latin so that you can get a 100% latin immer­sion expe­ri­ence if you want. (There will of course still be an inter­lin­ear glos­sary avail­able on tap, if you want!)

It’s not always easy to explain every­thing in Latin, but with Amelie’s illus­tra­tions I think we’ll get there.

What about release date? Hard to say. I’ve basi­cal­ly fin­ished pol­ish­ing mod­ules 1 and 2. Sev­er­al peo­ple (includ­ing Viviana and my dear friend Casper from Addis­co) will read and go through them to see if there are any things we can improve.

I’ve writ­ten all the main text mate­ri­als for the first 5 mod­ules (which will be more or less 11 000 words of Latin) but some mod­ules I need to pol­ish, and for oth­ers I will write a lot of notes for them. Amelie is work­ing hard draw­ing lots of illus­tra­tions.

This new begin­ner Latin course is by far the largest writ­ing project I have ever start­ed, but I real­ly think it can become some­thing that helps peo­ple learn latin ni a tru­ly immer­sive way.

The kids are asleep, so I am now get­ting back to revis­ing and writ­ing notes to mod­ule 1 and 2.

Stay tuned for more updates!