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ArLT AUDIO MP3 recordings of Greek and Latin literature made by members of the Association for Latin Teaching in Great Britain.  Authors include: Catullus, Horace, Lucretius, Martial, Ovid, Seneca, Vergil and Euripides.

AUDIOLATIN: LISTENING TO LATIN Listen to Laura Gibbs provide you a daily proverb in Latin.  Blog archives include readings from the Vulgate Bible and Aesop’s Fables.

BOREOCCIDENTALES Find out more about the Latin-Speaking Club of Seattle, Washington.  Focuses on the kinesthetic process of learning a language, sponsors “Latin Days” in Seattle and Latin Seminars.  Members are also in the process of developing a collection of Northwestern Latin writings.

CARPE LATINAM III How to start incorporating conversational Latin into your classroom without completely rewriting your curriculum.

CLASSICS PODCASTS Listen and subscribe to readings of Latin and Ancient Greek texts.  Some recordings are available in both “Natural” and “Study Speed” formats.  (Although “Study Speed” sounds faster, it’s actually slower and intended to help the learner listen for understanding by grouping words into thought groups.)

CLASSROOM LATIN A Quia quiz activity covering classroom Latin vocabulary.

COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT/EXTENSIVE READING RESOURCES FOR LATIN While the printable materials on this page are primarily geared toward the development of true reading proficiency, there are also excellent resources for creative use of language as well, including information on teaching Latin prose and verse composition as well as how to write a Latin letter.  There’s a work in progeniesress on everyday useful Latin and lots of narratives as well.   And much more!

CONVERSATION A Quia quiz activity highlighting common terms and phrases in conversation.

CONVENTICULUM BOSTONIENSE 2007 This is a full immersion residential experience for teachers of Latin at all levels offered by the Classics Department at UMass Boston.  Participants converse exclusively in Latin throughout the Conventiculum.  Graduate level credit is available for both first time and returning attendees.  There will be communal meals, field trips, museum visits.  This is an excellent oppportunity to increase your ability to teach using active learning methodologies .

THE CORRECT PRONUNCIATION? William Harris, emeritus professor of Classics at Middlebury, has written a short essay on his perspective regarding the proper pronunciation of Lati

GETTING STARTED WITH LATIN Pronunciation recordings designed to accompany Getting Started with Latin, a curriculum for homeschoolers and independent Latin learners.  Click on the Free Resources button.

GREETINGS DIALOGUE A Quia quiz activity in which students must put lines from a dialogue into proper sequence.

GREGORIAN CHANT For those with an interest in early Christian music and chant, this site is primarily an academically-based collection of resources.  You’ll find connections to research databases and centers, information about medieval music theory, historical information and more.  If you are intersted in listening to Gregorian chant, the site’s author includes links to performers, religious communities and publishers.

HARVARD CLASSICS PROSE AND POETRY RECITAL Hear Harvard Classics Department staff perform Latin and Greek recitations of prose and poetry.

HELP FOR GREEK STUDENTS A selection of study guides and digital audio recordings to facilitate correct pronunciation from the University of Kentucky.

IANLS The International Association for Neo-Latin Studies promotes interest in the study of Neo-Latin (writings in Latin since the beginnings of Humanism.) IANLS also holds regular Congresses -- the next will be in August 2009 in Upsala.

INTRODUCTION TO LATIN PRONUNCIATION Learn how to pronounce Latin properly with help from experts Mark Miner and Richard A. LaFleur.  Download audio files for listening on your MP3 player.

LATINITAS A foundation established by Pope Paul VI to promote the study and use of the Latin language.  Publishes the quarterly journal Latinitas which deals with literary, philological, historical, and scientific cultural topics and also reports on current issues in the news journalistically.  Hosts the Certamen Vaticanum, an international Latin  poetry and prose competition, organizes intensive Latin courses and hosts congresses and conferences.  Currently promoting the Lexicon recentis Latinitatis, a neo-Latin dictionary.  The link given is to the English language description of the Latinitas site, but they also, of course, have a Latin language page.

LATIN POETRY PODCAST Christopher Francese of Dickinson College presents occasional podcasts of selections from Latin poetry.  Archived here are excerpts from Martial, Propertius, Catullus and Vergil.  You’ll need to click on the Podcasts link

LATINUM PODCAST A series of podcasts designed to help the learner increase fluency in Latin.  Some well-known classicists, known for their facility with spoken Latin, have contributed, including Stephen Daitz and Robert Sonkowsky.  Organizations that have participated include Cambridge University Press, Loyola Marymount, UCLA and the Swarthmore College.

LATIN SONGBOOK Lyrics for many familiar songs translated into Latin from the Association foR Latin Teaching.

LATIN SONGS BY W.H.D. ROUSE Old fashioned children’s songs written in Latin.  Also from the ARLT.

LIBRIVOX From the Biblia Sacra Vulgata, a reading of Psalm 22.  You can also listen (in English, Butler translation) to the Odyssey by Homer.  A Latin reading of Vergil’s Aeneid and Eclogues is in production but not yet complete.

MYTHOLOGIA Laura Gibb’s provides samples of segmented audio stories based on Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles and also has a CD for purchase.

NUNTII LATINI Listen to online broadcasts of world news, in Latin, brought to you each week from the Finnish Broadcasting Company.  Also available as a podcast!  (Interestingly enough, the Finnish President’s weekly newsletter is accompanied by a written news round up in Latin.)

PERFORMING CICERO View performances of Cicero’s Pro Caelio.  There are 3 different versions of the speech, as well as information about the toga worn by the performers in the online videos. 

PRINCETON CLASSICAL LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION PROJECT Experience Ancient Greek and Classical Latin as living languages  via Shockwave and Macromedia Flash samplings.  Listen to readings of Homer, Plato, Pindar, Vergil, Tacitus, Horace, Ovid, Seneca and Propertius. 

PYRRHA SPOKEN LATIN Listen to some Latin and some Classical Greek! Readings from Vergil, Horace, Tacitus, Sallust, Apuleius, and Homer.

READING LATIN VERSE Andrew Wilson’s page on meter and scansion includes real audio files.

S.A.L.V.I. Septentrionale Americanum Latinitas Vivae Institutum (The North American Institute for Living Latin Studies) is a non-profit organization promoting an active approach to Living Latin in order to preserve the study of Latin language and literature in North America.  The Institute hosts seminars and lectures and is in the process of creating instructional materials.  S.A.L.V.I will be sponsoring its 7th annual summer Latin conversational workshop, RUSTICATIO CALIFORNIA in August 2007.

SOCIETY FOR THE ORAL READING OF GREEK AND  LATIN LITERATURE Encourages students and teachers of the Classical languages to listen to and reproduce the sounds of the languages by reading Latin and Greek authors in the original using the Restored Pronunciation.  You may also listen to Greek and Latin audio at this website.

TEACHING LATIN ON THE DIRECT METHOD W.H.D. Rouse and R.B. Appleton wrote a book by this title in the early 20th Century and defined the Direct Method “as applied to the teaching of languages...that the sounds of the foreign tongue are associated directly with a thing, or an act, or a thought, without the intervention of an English word” and they believed that this makes the learning of a language “as easy and as speedy as possible.” The Association for the Teaching of Latin has placed the appendix from this book on their website!

VATICAN RADIO Hear Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours and the Rosary in Latin.

WHEELOCK’S LATIN AUDIO Macromedia Flash Audio downloads to accompany the Wheelock Latin textbook.  Every Latin student and teacher, regardless of the textbook they use, should listen to the Introduction to Latin Pronunciation audio.  There are also audio downloads to accompany the 40 chapters of Wheelock.  For a more complete collection of Wheelock audio, the Wheelock’s Latin 4 CD set, Readings from Wheelock’s Latin, is available to purchase.

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY CONVENTICULUM 2007 The Annual Workshop for Spoken Latin held in Lexington, Kentucky.  This year it will be held in July and August.

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY INSTITUTE FOR LATIN STUDIES Graduate level Latin courses for those who wish to develop their skills in a rigorous and thorough manner.  Students will develop their reading, writing, and speaking skills in a wide cultural context.  The institute is recommended for those who wish to become Ph.D.s in Classics as well as high school teachers who would like to become more proficient and fluent in the language.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON CONVENTICULUM Information about the Washjngton Spoken-Latin Seminar to be held in June 2007. 

VATICAN - DOCUMENTA LATINAThe official Latin page of the Sancta Sedes (or Holy See) of the Vatican. If you are looking for a Latin version of the Bible, you’ll find it here, along with many other documents of the Roman Catholic Church in Latin.   The translation of the Biblia Sacra  is the Nova Vulgata (New Vulgate).  Documents available include the Code of Canon Law, the Constitutions, Declarations and Decrees of Vatican II, the Catechism of the Catholic Church. as well as Latin language encyclicals, letters, homilies and other papers of recent pontiffs since Pope John XXIII. 

VICIPAEDIA Wikipedia in lingua Latina.