The Online Latin Course. Learn Latin through Speaking and Listening. Download our free lessons to your MP3 player, and soak yourself through with the sounds of spoken Latin. It is the only way to rapidly acquire fluency. We offer free lessons in spoken Latin, and a growing repository of classical texts. LONGUM ITER EST PER PRAECEPTA, BREVE ET EFFICAX PER EXEMPLA
MIHI est propositum in taberna mori
Vinum sit appositum morientis ori
Ut dicant cum venerint Angelorum chori
Deus sit propitius huic potatori
Poculis accenditur animi lucerna
Cor imbutum nectare volat ad superna
Mihi sapit dulcius vinum in taberna
Quam quod aqua miscuit prassulis pincerna
Suum cuique proprium dat natura munus
Ego nunquam potui scribere jejunus
Me jejunum vincere posset puer unus
Sitim et jejunium odi tanquam funus"
"Unicuique proprium dat natura donum
Ego versus faciens vinum bibo bonum
Et quod habent melius dolia cauponum
Tale vinum generat copiam sermonum
Tales versus facio quale vinum bibo
Nihil possum scribere nisi sumpto cibo
Nihil valet penitus quod jejunus scribo
Nasonem post calices carmine praeibo
Mihi nunquam spiritus prophetias datur
Nisi tune cum fuerit venter bene satur
Cum in arce cerebri Bacchus dominator
In me Phoebus irruit ac miranda fatur
5.
Bacchus lenis leniens curas et dolores
confert iocum, gaudia, risus et amores.
Refl.
6.
Bacchus mentem femine solet hic lenire
cogit eam citius viro consentire.
Refl.
7.
Bacchus illam facile solet expugnare,
a qua prorsus coitum nequit impetrare.
Refl.
8.
Bacchus numen faciens hominem iocundum,
reddit eum pariter doctum et facundum.
Refl.
9.
Bacche, deus inclite, omnes hic astantes
leti sumus munera tua prelibantes.
Refl.
10.
Omnes tibi canimus maxima preconia,
te laudantes merito tempora per omnia.
Did the Romans sing their poetry and declaim their orations with the tonal accents of the Greeks, or did they solemnly orate with rotund monotony? Evan Millner gives his two pence.
"Considering our present advanced state of Culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercly than ever, but innumerable rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or doghole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated, - it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes"
Reproduced here on Latinum with the kind permission of Charley McNamara, who delivered the address at Harvard's 356th Commencement.
“Iohannes Harvard, Eques Iediensis”
By: Charles J. McNamara
Praeses Bok, Decani et Professores, familiae et amici, atque omnes gradum suscepturi in hoc anno MMVII, salvete! Salvete et vos, imaginum mobilium cultores! Libenter vobis exhibeo aestivum nostrum spectaculum, quod agitur in orbis terrarum elegantissimo argenteo velamento, Theatro Tercentenario. Sono circumiecto, actoribus similibus caeli astris, et foricis frequentatis fruamini. Nos hodie ad fabulae nostrae Harvardianae exitum stupefacientem advenimus. Fabula autem nostra valde similis est argumento alterius fabulae. Illa enim pertinet ad arma virumque, et abhinc multum tempus incidit…procul longissime in via lactea. Vita nostra Harvardiana, videtis, similis est Bellis Stellaribus.
Abhinc quosdam annos, ad urbem Bostoniensem, universi rotae centrum, tamquam inexercitati equites Iedienses advenimus. Graphidum secundi ordinis copia numquam sociorum docentium atramenti rufi enses luciferos vincere potuit. Multi discipuli procul ab orbe natali primum erant. Quamquam spectaculi principes eramus, sollicitudines nostrae erant tam infinitae quam caeli stellae: “Quam personam ago?” “Litteras meas meminero?” “Quisnam praecipit?”
Cito autem amicitias calidiores sole fabricavimus, quae superare tempora difficilia nos adiuverunt. Han Solo, tuus dilectissimus Utentium Auxiliator, te servavit cum tuum IBM RII-DII libellum tuum Miltonianum ederat. Filia Regis Leia, praeclara femina inter omnes vias lacteas, crines tuos compsit celerius luce ante primam saltationem tuam. Chewbacca etiam, habitator perennis in Sede Scientiae, prohibuit ne nota mathematica tua in transcripto lacuna nigra fieret.
Sed nos discipuli huius spectaculi gregis dimidia tantum pars eramus. Huius saeculi sapientiae Iediensis Antistites, magistri scilicet nostri, partes suas tam scite egerunt ut palmam ferre mererent. Multi eorum assimulabant Obi-Wano; curati enim lautique erant. Alii vero…Yodam sapiebant. Omnes autem nobis consilium sapientiamque in artibus suis donaverunt ut universi exempla ducesque fieremus.
Hodie ex optima academia Iediensi in tota via lactea gradum suscipimus. Haec universitas nos armat illa Vi, fortiore etiam Mortifera Stella Novi Portus. Pergamena nostra similia sunt veris luciferis ensibus: pretiosissima sunt, mirabilia sunt spectantibus, et eripere e manibus hostium orbem terrarum possunt. Sapienter novis armis vestris utimini, socii Lucae Caelum Perambulantes.
Fabula nostrae vitae Harvardianae iam ad finem vergit et ad participium indicem. Ante disceditis, ne oblivisicimini agere gratias fautoribus benignissimis—parentes nostros dico—qui nos hanc fabulam agentes largiter sustinuerunt. Atque hoc spectaculum non ultimum est! Alumnorum Conlegium iam in fabularum officina laborat ut redire ad theatrum velimus et partibus sequentibus fruamur. Omnibus in corona sedentibus, gratias vobis agimus quod nostrum spectaculum tam benevole videritis. Precor ut illa Vis Harvardiana semper vobiscum sit!
Welcome to Latinum, the Latin Language Learning Podcast, from London, England.
This episode is an interview with Lorna Robinson, who runs the Iris Magazine and Teaching Project for bringing the Classics into State Comprehensive Schools in England.
"Iris is an exciting and innovative magazine which exists to promote access to Latin, Ancient Greek and Classical Civilisation in UK state schools, and to cultivate imaginative responses to all areas of the Classics. It contains a broad and eclectic range of material, including artwork, fiction, case studies, reviews, outreach ideas and articles on a wide variety of Classical topics and authors, presented in a fresh, modern and engaging style."
I will be posting material I find on youtube that isn't suitable for transferring to MP3 here. Also, some material on youtube is copyright, and I won't reproduce it here, but I will link to it.
This version of Star Wars in Latin also bears watching listening to, the rendition is more flowing. Schoolboy latin can be hard on the ears..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Avrj_96uhk
This soundtrack is from Jeroen de Ost's YouTube video called Daedalus and Icarus. The sound was a bit unclear, so I've fixed it a little. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMyUNpL7bYU
DIALOOG
Daedalus: Jeroen
Icarus: Mitch
D: Pennace, penna ibi, et parati sumus, Icare.
I: Bene factus, patre.
D: Audi bene, Icare! Medioque_ut limite curras, Icare, moneo, ne si demissior ibis, unda gravet pennas, si celsior, ignis adurat. Inter utrumque vola!
I: Pateris me spectare Booten aut Helicen strictumque_Orionis ensem?
I thought I'd got rid of most of the excruciatingly loud laughter - here's another shot at getting a reasonably listenable piece of audio from the soundtrack lifted from the New St Andrews College girls singing the Dixie Chicks in Latin. It isn't hi fidelity. But its fun.
Here's the link to the original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4joPyckEty8&mode=related&search=
The Importance of being Earnest - a scene performed in Latin by Gretchen, Hannah and Margaret from New St. Andrews College.
I edited the sound file, the original, being a video, has more gaps and some of the spoken parts are unclear. I amplified these. Enjoy.
This sound file is reproduced here with the kind permission of the Melissa Foundation:
FUNDATIO MELISSA
Consociationis est
primo : aliquid conferre ad linguam Latinam docendam quibusvis rationibus paedagogicis vel technicis ;
secundo : promovere " Latinitatem vivam ", id est curare ut sermo Latinus adhibeatur et niti ut lingua Latina propagetur, quae sit lingua communicationis inter nationes, utendo omnibus instrumentis scriptis vel audivisificis, proferendo acroases publicas, instituendo seminaria et studiorum circulos, conficiendo itinera, etc.
This sound file is reproduced here with the kind permission of the Melissa Foundation:
FUNDATIO MELISSA
Consociationis est
primo : aliquid conferre ad linguam Latinam docendam quibusvis rationibus paedagogicis vel technicis ;
secundo : promovere " Latinitatem vivam ", id est curare ut sermo Latinus adhibeatur et niti ut lingua Latina propagetur, quae sit lingua communicationis inter nationes, utendo omnibus instrumentis scriptis vel audivisificis, proferendo acroases publicas, instituendo seminaria et studiorum circulos, conficiendo itinera, etc.
Societas pedifollica Werder Bremen spem campionatus Germaniae redintegravit. Postquam quattuor ludis Ligae Foederalis unum tantum punctum assecuti sunt, Werderani pedilusores Bochumenses facile vicerunt; status finalis ludi fuit tria ad nulla. Heros triumphans huius ludi fuit Aaron Hunt, qui in Stadio Visurgis spectatoribus referto solus ter follem in portam impulit. Hac victoria Bremenses locum secundum Ligae Foederalis recuperaverunt.
This demo track reproduced here on Latinum with the kind permission of the band.
Check out their website: http://www.ista-latina.de/demos.php
A German hip hop band which raps in Latin. The band, Ista, was formed by a group of Classics pupils at a school in Wilhelmshaven in the 1990's.
The original seven members, which included Mr Barwig, who checked that the grammar was right, are now living scattered across Germany, having since grown up and become architects, teachers, a nurse and parents.
"Over the years we have sold around 2,500 CDs," said Mr Janssen. "Between 10 and 20 are bought per month, from our internet site.
"But in the last couple of years that has doubled and the media interest has been enormous. People have found us over the internet and we have sold CDs to people in the US and all across Europe."
A debate has been raging in German educational circles about whether Latin should be taught in school any more - and Ista is suddenly all the rage again.
"Latin is a good language to rap in actually. It has a good rhythm and can be to the point," says Janssen.
This demo track reproduced here on Latinum with the kind permission of the band.
Check out their website: http://www.ista-latina.de/demos.php
A German hip hop band which raps in Latin. The band, Ista, was formed by a group of Classics pupils at a school in Wilhelmshaven in the 1990's.
The original seven members, which included Mr Barwig, who checked that the grammar was right, are now living scattered across Germany, having since grown up and become architects, teachers, a nurse and parents.
"Over the years we have sold around 2,500 CDs," said Mr Janssen. "Between 10 and 20 are bought per month, from our internet site.
"But in the last couple of years that has doubled and the media interest has been enormous. People have found us over the internet and we have sold CDs to people in the US and all across Europe."
A debate has been raging in German educational circles about whether Latin should be taught in school any more - and Ista is suddenly all the rage again.
"Latin is a good language to rap in actually. It has a good rhythm and can be to the point," says Janssen.
This demo track reproduced here on Latinum with the kind permission of the band.
Check out their website: http://www.ista-latina.de/demos.php
A German hip hop band which raps in Latin. The band, Ista, was formed by a group of Classics pupils at a school in Wilhelmshaven in the 1990's.
The original seven members, which included Mr Barwig, who checked that the grammar was right, are now living scattered across Germany, having since grown up and become architects, teachers, a nurse and parents.
"Over the years we have sold around 2,500 CDs," said Mr Janssen. "Between 10 and 20 are bought per month, from our internet site.
"But in the last couple of years that has doubled and the media interest has been enormous. People have found us over the internet and we have sold CDs to people in the US and all across Europe."
A debate has been raging in German educational circles about whether Latin should be taught in school any more - and Ista is suddenly all the rage again.
"Latin is a good language to rap in actually. It has a good rhythm and can be to the point," says Janssen.
Did the Romans sing their poetry and declaim their orations with the tonal accents of the Greeks, or did they solemnly orate with rotund monotony? Evan Millner gives his two pence.
Cultural Broadcast The First
Who was George Adler?
Harvard University 2007 Latin Salutatory Address
Welcome to Latinum, the Latin Language Learning Podcast, from London, England.
I will be posting material I find on youtube that isn't suitable for transferring to MP3 here. Also, some material on youtube is copyright, and I won't reproduce it here, but I will link to it.
This soundtrack is from Jeroen de Ost's YouTube video called Daedalus and Icarus. The sound was a bit unclear, so I've fixed it a little.
The Importance of being Earnest - a scene performed in Latin by Gretchen, Hannah and Margaret from New St. Andrews College. 
This clip was sent in by a fan....The announcer is Dr Franz Hartmann
Societas pedifollica Werder Bremen spem campionatus Germaniae redintegravit. Postquam quattuor ludis Ligae Foederalis unum tantum punctum assecuti sunt, Werderani pedilusores Bochumenses facile vicerunt; status finalis ludi fuit tria ad nulla. Heros triumphans huius ludi fuit Aaron Hunt, qui in Stadio Visurgis spectatoribus referto solus ter follem in portam impulit. Hac victoria Bremenses locum secundum Ligae Foederalis recuperaverunt.
Somewhere on Hadrian's Wall.......
This demo track reproduced here on Latinum with the kind permission of the band.
This demo track reproduced here on Latinum with the kind permission of the band.
This demo track reproduced here on Latinum with the kind permission of the band.
