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In 2003, Michael Thomas Connaghton published a short thesis on the use of Latin in the Vatican State – in the hope of demonstrating that Latin was still alive. Instead, his thesis outlined the last gasp of Latin as a spoken language – across the Vatican, Latin as a language of daily intercourse is now in effect confined to a single room – the so-called “Office of Letters”............

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A short description of what we get up to at the London Latin Circle ( for want of a better name).
You are warmly invited to attend, and join us eccentrics with our beer and bad verbs.
evanmillner {[at]} gmail.com
Keith Rogers runs the London Latin group, so you can email him directly if you wish to find out more. We meet on the second Sunday of each month, at 2pm, at The Chamberlain Hotel, The Minories, City of London. The session runs for 2 - 3 hours, depending on how chatty we are feeling, or on how much beer we've consumed.
k_d_rogers {[at]} hotmail.com

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WELCOME TO Latinum, Latin language learning podcast from London.

- OVER 2,340,000 AUDIO FILES DOWNLOADED SINCE MAY 2007-

" Example before the rule" is a great principle of language learning. Viva voce methods save time, rules are grasped more quickly. Systematic use of viva voce Latin leads to rapidly gaining the required intuitive familiarity with Latin sentence construction, and the learning of correct vowel quantity from the beginning. Vocabulary is learned in a more natural way. The intention is to use the resources offered here to get good enough to actually get to think in the language, to live in it. This is the Renaissance Method.

The recorded lessons from Adler's Textbook, " A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language" form the core of the podcast. Adler's book can be downloaded for free from Google Books, who especially re-scanned this important textbook for us.


Vale.

Evan Millner
London


Many thanks to the following individuals and organisations for appearing (listed in no particular order) on this Podcast:
The Cambridge University Press;
The University of Canterbury, New Zealand;
University of California, Los Angeles;
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles;
Swarthmore College, Department of Classics;
Stephen Daitz (Sorgll);
Robert Sonkowsky (Sorgll);
Wakefield Foster (Sorgll);
ISTA;
Jeroen de Ost;
Cantantor;
Lucio Amadeo Ranierio;
Lorna Robinson, Iris Project;
Ruben Sitto;
Hefyd;
Melissa Foundation;
Charles Umiker;
Iohannes Alatius;
Brad Walton;
Charlie McNamara.

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John Amos Comenius produced a graduated series of Latin textbooks in the 1600's. These were very popular and exist in a great variety of versions with parallel translations in every major European language. Thus, they are of great utility to the student of Latin. I am currently marking up the texts for recording.
This will take place gradually - in the meantime, if you follow the information link on the sidebar, you will be able to read the texts online in digital form.

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Vocabulary Building:
Nouns substantive used in GCSE Latin, all tiers, introduced in the form of "This thing"
In case these pronouns are not yet familiar, here is the declension of the nominative and genitive of this and these.

Hic - masculine
Haec - feminine
Hoc - neuter
Hujus - genitive
HI - masc. plural
HAE - fem plural
HAEC - neut plural
horum - masc gen. plural
harum - fem gen plural
horum - neut plural

Note on pronunciation. Hic haec and hoc should have a double c before a vowel.

However, in the vocab list recited here, I have only given a single c, to make the form of the nouns substantive clearer for a beginner.
A Roman would have said Hoc Cest instead of hoc est, and haec Carbor, not haec arbor. When you are saying these yourself, you might want to try doing this.
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Vocabulary Building: Latin
200 verbs given in the infinitive form. These are suitable for foundation and higher levels.

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Vocabulary Building: Latin
200 verbs given in the first person present indicative. i.e. I love, I call, I wound, etc.

These are for both higher and foundation level students.

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Vocabulary Building:
GCSE - some basic vocabulary for GCSE Latin.

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