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  • Latin Studies
    • The Latin Package
    • Reading Latin Practicum
    • Introduction to Living Latin
    • Latin Poetry Seminar
    • Latin Composition and Conversation
  • Literary Studies
    • World of Narnia
  • Theological Studies
    • Medieval Theology
    • The Father of Lights: A Theology of Beauty
  • About
    • About the Instructor
    • Memberships and Packages
    • Our Values
    • Our Policies

Latin Studies

Latin instruction for all ages

Latin Composition and Conversation

Let’s Create Some Latin Languages are made for communication. They develop organically among groups of people who need to externalize their thoughts so that others can share in them, whether it be warnings of danger, requests for aid, or musings about the nature of things. Given the back and forth […]

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Latin Poetry Seminar

Dive into Latin Poetry! Latin poetry is glorious! But it is not very like English poetry. So different are the quantitative meters native to Latin from the accentual meters of English that it can almost seem like a category error to call them both poetry. As a result, our experience […]

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Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana

Latin Reading of a Classic Text De Doctrina Christiana, usually translated as On Christian Teaching, was written by Augustine of Hippo at the beginning of the 5th century AD, and has been a classic text on reading the Scriptures ever since. In this course, we will be reading this book […]

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Introduction to Living Latin

Add Spoken Latin to Your Language Ability It’s a simple truth: Latin is a language, and was spoken long before it was ever written down. The language developed with an eye (or ear) to oral communication, and this has been its main use for most of its life. To really […]

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The Heart of Latin

Understanding Latin from the Inside Out Much of Latin seems counter-intuitive to English-speaking students. Seemingly arbitrary and very difficult features of the language like cases, word order, and the incredible number of verb forms not only make the language difficult to learn, they also take a major toll on student […]

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Right Writing

Correcting Our Understanding of Grammar Grammar, as the foundation of language, is an essential element in all good writing. And yet very few opportunities exist for us as adults to think about grammar in a focused way, to explore and question those rules that we so often teach more by […]

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Speak Like a Roman

Languages Were Made to Be Spoken The student of French of Spanish comes home on the first day having learned to say a few simple phrases. From the first moments in the classroom, they are beginning to speak in another language, taking the step towards thinking with a foreign mind. […]

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Reading Latin Practicum

The Path to Better Latin Reading Ability It’s time (at last!) to read Latin Most of those who study a Modern language are studying it in order to be able to speak it, and so they focus on words and expressions that will help them get around a country, have […]

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Convivium

A Community of Latin Pedagogues Teaching Latin can be hard. For some of us, we’re the only teacher at our school, and, aside from the loneliness of not having others to talk to about what we do, there is the constant pressure to justify our existence. Perhaps we are part […]

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