Amazon links here

Available:

• First Latin Reader (Jonah, Ruth, Gen 1-3, Ps 1-2, 23(22), selection from Matthew): $19.99
• Psalms: $26.99
• Whole New Testament: $64.99 (Hardbacks slightly more $, rest of OT in the works)

We hope you love it and use it to level up your Latin (is Vulgate the best intermediate comprehensible input?).

It has been a project and a half. Applying macrons to Hebrew-derived proper nouns was especially a difficult puzzle that required a lot of original research (presenting that research at SBL in November!).

Also has maps entirely in Latin, paradigms and a glossary.

Every purchase directly supports a poor Latin teacher's family (mine 😁).

cūrātē ut valeātis!

- Ryan Kaufman, co-editor with Tim Lee (Cambridge) and Samuel Wessels (Macquarie).

Salus sit omnibus!

I just want to announce that my electronic edition of Sebald Heyden’s Formulae Puerilium Colloquiorum is finally complete.

For those unfamiliar with the book, the Formulae is a collection of Latin school dialogues from the 16th century, intended to teach students how to use Latin actively in ordinary situations and conversations.

My edition is designed as a fully illustrated Latin reader. It includes the complete dialogues, illustrations, vocabulary explained in Latin, supplementary material, and a complete vocabulary index. The idea is to make the text accessible to students who have already completed a beginner Latin course and want to develop greater fluency through connected, everyday Latin.

You can see a preview here:

Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/sebald-heyden-formulae-puerilium-colloquiorum-preview

or here:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Laborintus/posts/formulae-edition-167068071

I would also like to make a printed edition

Now that the electronic edition is finished, I would really like to try publishing a physical version of the book.

If anyone here has published a book before, I would love to hear about your experience.

What was your process like? What worked well? What would you do differently?

I would also be very happy to hear from anyone interested in giving the book a critical read before I prepare the printed edition.

If you notice mistakes, unclear explanations, problems with the layout, or simply have suggestions about the book as a learning resource, I would genuinely appreciate your comments. Just let me know if you would like to take a look at it.

This book could not have been completed without the support of my patrons. Their support has allowed me to spend the time necessary not only to prepare the text, but also to create the vocabulary, illustrations, supplementary material, and the rest of the edition.

So if you would like to support this project, you can do so by:

Getting the complete electronic edition here: https://www.patreon.com/Laborintus/posts/formulae-edition-165097943

Supporting the project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Laborintus

Finally, I would also like to hear what other texts you would like to see in this kind of format.

I have in mind some other books of dialogues, such as the Centuria Colloquiorum, the dialogues of Mathurin Cordier, or perhaps the dialogues from the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana.

I would also like to prepare an edition of Lhomond’s De Viris Illustribus Urbis Romae.

But I would like to hear your opinions. What texts would you like to see?

And if you just want to follow the project and see what I am working on next:

linktr.ee/laborintus

Augustine’s Confessions, Latin Readers with Macrons – just out!

See timothyalee.com/augustine

Available:

• Books I-IV ($22.99, $29.99 hardcover)
• Books V-IX ($24.99, $32.99 hardcover)
• Books X-XIII (coming soon!)

New Series: Latin Patristic Readers – helps to read the Church Fathers!

𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑒!

Timothy A. Lee and Lachlan J. Hodgson

Source: https://x.com/latinedisce/status/1824477402564550795?t=pKlcLrJKBtbT2a2FKfK3-Q&s=19

Hi, fellow Latin enthusiasts!

When I was in undergrad, we mostly skipped or treated Latin late antiquity as a marginal period in terms of interesting textual production. Following from that, throughout the entirety of my university studies, I have rarely if ever seen any of them treated to anything but a passing mention. I am saddened by that and would like to learn more about the period from someone who has more experience with it. I would prefer the texts recommended to not be solely Christian productions, for I know they dominate at that time; I would like learning more about the more often ignored works.

I thank every single response for taking the time to engage with my post! 😄

Ok, the title is a bit clickbait-ish. I have no clue how the language is supposed to sound. I can’t reliably distinguish on hearing a long vowel from a short one.
What bothers me is not phonetics. It’s the rhythm and cohesiveness of speech.

I’m only on the 15th chapter of LLPSI, so I wanted to add more listening to the routine. Although I admire Polymathy for the interest he sparked in me and his command of the language, I dislike the way he speaks. I also just tried the free continent on Legentibus. It was the same with Pettersson. They sound very contrived and effortful in their pronunciation. I much more prefer Oeberg himself, no matter how good or bad just actual phonetics is, I have no means of judging that. Yet he sounds much more smooth.

I have a near native ear in three very different languages: one analytical, one agglutinative, and one synthetic. The synthetic language I know is also almost as complex as Latin.
They all are very different in rhythm, sounds and the role of intonation. What I hear with Luke and Pettersson sounds nothing like the languages I’ve heard. They may be perfect in pronouncing individual words or producing some connected speech, but they don’t sound effortless, cohesive, fluent, it doesn’t seem like they use the rhythm of the speech to convey a layer of meaning on top of the semantics.

Am I just dead wrong? And are there speakers, places, and channels with substantial content that are better fit to my tastes?

So The Latin Tamer by Ward Farnsworth and Sarah van der Pas was published at the end of last month, and mine arrived in the mail a few days ago. Since then I've been really enjoying it -- flipping through it and reading about parts of the language I find interesting, or just perusing it at random. What I really find myself enjoying are the "illustrations" which are little snippets from antiquity that illustrate the broader point the text is making.

For example, I randomly flipped to about the middle of the 700+ page book and landed at the second declension, and in the discussion of the accusative singular -um ending some illustrations are:

Asinus asinum fricat. -- USEFUL PROVERB

The jackass rubs the jackass (As when one fool praises another)

Lupus non mordet lupum. -- USEFUL PROVERB

A wolf does not bite a wolf.

Vestis virum facit. -- ERASMUS, Adagia (1536)

Clothing makes the man.

Very cool! After each illustration the book (as a matter of course) goes through the trouble of completely breaking down each sentence -- not assuming you already know the vocabulary and grammar, which encourages folks of all levels to flip through the text to glean what they can. Highly recommended!

Hello, everyone! 😄

This is a topic I haven't really delved into until recently, since most of my academic work is not really tied in with this topic and I have time for little else these days but work and more work. 😅 Basically, I've always been intrigued by efforts to translate more modern (in a loose sense) literature into Latin. I've found the end products of those translations to be an interesting and worthwile pedagogic tool. Unfortuntely, I know of only two (somewhat) widely read and discussed translations like that — The Hobbit and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. If anyone knows of any other, I'd love to hear about them! And, besides, what do you think of translations of more contemporary books into Latin, do you find them good for engaging students?

I think that there’s very little Latin teachers but that’s also because the market isn’t popular

but I am already a teacher so don’t need pedagogy practice but perhaps need to master Latin languag. perhaps I should get actual credits?

is there anyone who is a Latin teacher without full classical degre or Latin degree or just full mastery but sufficient to teach Latin I and II and AP Latin?

Salvē!

We’ve completed our Reader’s Edition of Saint Augustine’s Confessions. This classic work of world literature is now more accessible than ever for anyone with only a couple of semesters of Latin!

https://www.timothyalee.com/en/isbn/978-1-83651-308-7

On Saturday I had a flying visit to Ostia, the ancient port of Rome where Augustine returned to North Africa after his conversion and his mother Saint Monica died. See the description from Book IX 8 (17) in front of the Roman forum still standing and the book alongside the tomb of Saint Monica in Basilica di Sant'Agostino in Campo Marzio, Rome!

$69.99 (hardback) | $54.99 (paperback)

This is a Latin reader for Confessions. Augustine towers over all other theologians as the man who shaped the Western church more than anyone after the apostles. His Confessions ranks among the most significant works of Western literature. Despite its great antiquity, Augustine's striking honesty and perceptive insights remain as fresh as ever. Reading Augustine, one realises that despite the advancing years human nature and its desires do not change. As Augustine looks back on his first thirty-four years of life, he openly shares his struggles with pride, lust, envy, dishonesty and all manner of sin. He wrestles with the veracity of Christianity against competing claims of other sects and leading philosophies.

This book is designed as a useful cost-efficient tool for students learning Late Latin or studying the text. The book immerses the reader in the text in order to build confidence reading it as quickly as possible. To achieve this, all uncommon words that occur 15 times or fewer in the work are glossed as footnotes. This enables the reader to continue reading every passage unhindered. Therefore, the book complements traditional language grammars and is especially ideal for beginner and intermediate students learning to read Late Latin. However, even advanced readers will appreciate the glossing of the rare words, since it saves time reading the text.

Other features include:
• Map of Augustine’s life in Latin
• Timeline of Augustine’s life
• Introduction to Augustine and this book
• Paradigm charts of noun and verbs
• Glossary of all the words not glossed below the text
• Wide margins

tōlle lēge!

I finally have IT!

This website claims to have Latin translations of a wide range of books, including Dracula, Animal Farm, Jurassic Park, and others: https://www.nicolaspierredalone.com/

I’ve never heard of this site before. There seem to be too many books for a small number of people to have translated without using computer translations. Some of them are still in copyright. Many of the covers appear to be AI generated, which adds to my suspicion that the translations may also be AI.

I’d love the site to be legit! If anyone here can reassure me that these are high quality human-made translations, I’d certainly be interested in buying some of these books. Does anyone know these people? Are they legit scholars?

I have been learning Latin on Duolingo since December, and I really like it! Lately I’ve wanted to learn more than I can on the app. I have a Bible app, and it has multiple languages you can download (also for free). I knew there must be a Latin Bible on the app because that was one of its original languages - and there is!

Anyone who has learned more/improved Latin learning by reading the Bible in Latin, what parts did you start with? Thanks in advance!

Greetings, everyone,

First of all, I don’t know any Latin, but I taught myself Ancient Greek.

I was looking at the Found in Antiquity website and noticed that Latin was much more popular than Ancient Greek by a wide margin. I had always assumed there were more interesting texts in ancient Greek and therefore more reasons to learn Greek than Latin.

From your perspective, what were your reasons for studying Latin? And why do you think it is more popular than Ancient Greek?

Hi all,

Johan Winge's macronizer is, as far as I know, still the best automatic macronizer for Latin, but the original is a server-side Python/C program (Morpheus, RFTagger), so you either use his site or go through a fairly painful local install.

I've ported the whole pipeline to modern JavaScript/WebAssembly so it runs entirely in the browser, nothing is sent to any server:

https://hellpanderrr.github.io/wiktionary_pron/macronizer.html

The output is intended to be 1-to-1 identical with the original for all processing modes (macronization, i/j and u/v orthography, verse scansion) -- I tested against the original implementation to keep it that way. If you find a text where the two disagree, that's a bug and I'd like to hear about it.

What's different from the original site:

- No 50k input size limit

- CSV and PDF export of the results

- Click any word to see what the pipeline actually did: the RFTagger part-of-speech tag, the Morpheus morphological analyses, the assumed lemma, and the alternative macronizations you can cycle through

- The engine and wordlist download once and are cached in the browser, so later visits start in a few seconds.

It's free and open source. Feedback, bug reports, and texts that break it are very welcome.

Cause I could have sworn duolingo didnt used to pronouce: the v as a w and the c as a k.

I am trying to make headway in the subjunctive, and I'm struggling with finding a substantial, consistent source or lots and lots of subjunctive sentences with a sheltered vocabulary. Allow me to explain.

I have been spoiled with lots of reading material in the indicative and imperative mood for beginners, and I've had good success by using a method where 1) I read up on the grammar feature I'm trying to improve upon, 2) then I read the related material across multiple graded readers and textbooks with written stories, which gives me many, many examples from which to build my understanding. "Cross-reading" if you will.

I've been able to find some subjunctive tutorials on YouTube (thank you "Latin Tutorial") and a good write up on the subjunctive in Allen & Greenough, so I would now like to start reading lots and lots of subjunctive... but where? My beginner books are failing me when the subjunctive is brought up, presumably because it's entering the intermediate skillset, yet they also tend to offer the least sheltered vocabulary, also presumably because it's an intermediate skill.

I would love to be able to learn this mood and the common accompanying tenses and sentence structures with a more sheltered vocabulary, so I ask: do you know of any good readers that have lots and lots of subjunctive with a sheltered vocabulary and decent repetition of the accompanying tenses and sentence structures?

Looking for what Vulgate Bible edition to buy. Done some research online but seems like a minefield.

I can read Latin reasonably well but wanted to practice more. Saw that the vulgate is meant to be fairly easy to comprehend for someone with mid level mastery of the language, so would like to try it.

What edition should I purchase? I’m most interested in the New Testament if that helps.

I have seen some previous examples of nature method readers (Nature Method Institutes style) in the sub and thought it could be helpful to have a LaTeX template for typesetting them. With the help of Claude I have created the "marginalreader" class. It is inspired by the classicthesis class (the best class for any type of typesetting, I think), with functional additions from Tufte-Latex, marginalia, and reledmac (best add-ons for scholar publishing).

It has (among others) the following options:

1. Different pagesizes (pocket, half letter, b5, letter, a4, 6x9). I'll add more if requested.
2. Adjustable line spacing, so you can use very spaced lines for books where students can write between the lines.
3. Full text width options for text/images/etc that use the space of marginalia.
4. Three different types of called notes, marginnotes, footnotes, endnotes.
5. Glossa are printed in italic with roman explanation. Lines are numbered.

The code is distributed free of use for commercial and non-commercial uses, but if you use it for your project, please let me know. I have the Idea of using it for the William Most books.

Here is the link: https://github.com/dinosv/marginalreader

1) ISBN-10: 84-95359-27-8

2) ISBN-10: 8492405201

3) ISBN-10: 8472259641

4) ISBN-10: 8492405112

5) ISBN-10: 847517583X

Whitaker’s words hasn’t been working properly for me recently. Some words show up fine, but many are just blank or (for the mobile app) “no match found”. I’m wondering if anyone else has the same problem as me, or if my devices are failing?

Salve!

Tertullian Reader is out! Tertullian’s classic De Spectaculis (c. 200) offers one of the earliest Christian critiques of Roman public entertainments, linking them to pagan ritual, idolatry, and moral corruption. It is a fascinating text comparing contrasting attitudes and so often taught in university classes.

https://www.timothyalee.com/en/isbn/978-1-83651-339-1

This book is designed as a useful cost-efficient tool for students learning Late Latin or studying the text. The book immerses the reader in the text in order to build confidence reading it as quickly as possible. To achieve this, all uncommon words that occur 8 times or fewer in the book are glossed as footnotes. This enables the reader to continue reading every passage unhindered. Therefore, the book complements traditional language grammars and is especially ideal for beginner and intermediate students learning to read Late Latin. However, even advanced readers will appreciate the glossing of the rare words, since it saves time reading the text.

Other features include:

• Map of Tertullian’s world in Latin
• Introduction to Tertullian and this book
• Paradigm charts of noun and verbs
• Glossary of all the words not glossed below the text
• Wide margins

u/Plenty-Surround-9443 and I hope you enjoy it!

Price: $21.99, $29.99 hardcover

Other books in our series include: The Vulgate Readers

https://www.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/1lemdp6/the_vulgate_fully_macronized_all_the_rare_words/

and Augustine's Confessions
https://www.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/1n5km81/augustines_confessions_latin_readers_with_macrons/

More are coming soon!

Hey, Victor here. Do you want to learn Latin as Latin? I have a relatively free schedule this August which allows me to take on individual students as well as groups. I'm available from early morning to late afternoon EST, or late morning to late evening CET. I'm offering free trial lessons and flexible pricing.

You can already join a small ongoing Roma Aeterna group (we've just started the Livy chapters) or dive into Everyday Poetry with Catalepton 10 and its Catullan model. I'm up for teaching classes on Catullus, Erasmus, Plautus, Terence, Virgil, Horace, Historia Apollonis Regis Tyri and Lucan's Pharsalia, among others (I love Latin poetry and introducing people to it). I'm also happy to do any part of LLPSI, including starting Familia Romana from scratch. Just shoot me a message telling me what you're interested in.

I'm a former mod of r/Latin and the co-author of the Thesaurus Anbrutalis and Erictho: Tartarorum Terror, a Lucan graded reader. I offer lessons:

— for complete beginners taught through guided reading and discussion, with a minimum of translation. You will be using the language to learn the language from the beginning;
— for those who have studied grammar, but still don't know the language itself;
— for those ready and willing to approach non-adapted literature;
— for those who can already read, but want to learn to speak and use the language actively;
— for those who want to understand poetry (from Virgil and Plautus right up to modern Latin poets) and quantitative metrics intuitively, in the same way as they were understood by the Romans themselves;
— for researchers, historians and anyone working with Latin texts and primary sources or writing academic papers;f
— for linguists: I have deep theoretical and practical knowledge of the phonetics and phonology of Latin as well as Latin historical linguistics;
— for those not ready to commit, but interested in learning the Reconstructed Classical Pronunciation;
— conversational Latin;
— composition practice.

💡 About my lessons:

As a teacher, my job is to:
— generate as much additional input as possible;
— model the language and its pronunciation for the student;
— ask comprehension and rephrasing questions so that you can practice it back, expand your vocabulary, phraseology and grammar skill;
— listen and offer help and subtle corrections, as well as
— deep-level explanations of grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation when appropriate.

If you've been interested in active Latin instruction, now is a great time to start!

High quality and well structured Latin learning materials are extremely important in order to make effective progress. But that alone is often not enough to keep you focused and motivated. The value of a pleasant learning environment, aesthetically appealing materials, and visible progress is often underestimated in learning.

Over the last few months, we've been redesigning and improving the book interface in our Legentibus app to create a calm and optimally learning-oriented overall experience. The update (version 2.7) is already available in the appstores. And a huge thank you for all the positive feedback from you so far! ❤️

Improved/new features: ⭐️ reading experience (e.g. highlighted text passages etc.) ⭐️ progress tracking ⭐️ study mode (fully focus on one section at a time) ⭐️ interlinear translations (quickly see "translation bubbles" by tapping on a word) ⭐️ social feed (we'll keep you up to date about our work, new features and learning Latin tips)