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WELCOME TO Latinum, Latin language learning podcast from London.- OVER 1,235,000 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.
7 Comments:
Thank you so much for uploading these podcasts! I have some knowledge (go to Mass in Latin) and this is an excellent help for me. I listen to them while doing my routine 'paper clean up' at the office. Thanks again!
Pleased you're enjoying them.
Loving this podcast. You've really done something fantastic here. Brilliant of you to grasp the potential of podcast technology for use with studying classical languages. This has become one of my absolute favorite podcasts!
From Joseph. What an excellent idea but at the age of 83 re-studying Latin which was one of my Matric subjects I find it is spoken much too quickly and I can't remember it ever spoken at this speed. Best wishes.
Good job. The world needs to revive this language. :)
Hello Joseph,
I would suggest you start with the first Adler lessons, to revise your Latin. The speed here is slow. In the Adler lessons, there is a lot of repitition.
My speed is actually quite slow, especially as I draw out the long vowels, although in the more recent lessons, my speed is more or less conversational. You would not have been exposed to Latin as a conversational language in your South African matric exams, and there was little or no emphasis on the spoken language. If you give these lessons a little of your time, you ear will rapidly attune to the Latin.
Hello Sasha
I'm pleased you're enjoying Latinum. I have been pleasantly surprised myself at the success of my podcast. When I first set eyes on Alder's book, I knew I had stumbled across a veritable treasure trove. The question was, how to translate it into online lessons. The format that has evolved appears to be successful. Latinum is already being used by thousands of people all over the world, at all stages of learning Latin. The youngest user I know of started listening to the podcasts before she was even born - she lives in Vietnam, and her parents want her to learn Latin from infancy.
I think Latinum's main appeal is its practical focus - that Latin is being learned in order to be able to use it - read it as well, to be true, but to get a real gut feel for it as a working language. One can imagine oneself on the streets of Pompei, ordering food in a shop, buying a new toga, a family argument....the texture of the language of the day to day exigencies of Roman life that one does not get a feel for from reading the great Roman texts (barring the odd play or remnant of a novel) that have come down to us. I am still only one third of the way though Adler's tome - it is huge, by modern textbook standards. I thought it would take me a year to complete, but at current rates of progress, it may be longer. This should be about right, anyway, as it takes about 3 years of steady work for most people to acquire a language.
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