Latin Mastery

7 Latin Audio Courses - One Goal: Mastery of Latin

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Streaming the Audio Catalogue is available for $5 per month

Streaming + downloading from the 'Download Catalogue' is $10 per month.

Evan der Millner

If you are interested in learning Latin, why not visit Evan der Millner's Latin course?

Latin Composition Prizes and Competitions

I am putting together a list of the Latin prizes and competitions currently in existence.

My efforts to date can be found here.

Become a Book Patron at Latinum

Your name will be published in the Audiobook Catalogue as a Book Patron. Your name will be inscribed alongside any new Latin audiobooks published by Latinum after the date you become a Book Patron, and will be included on the 'virtual bookcover' of these books.

Prendergast's Latin Mastery Course

Latin Mastery

This course is intended for Latin Teachers and more advanced students of Latin wishing to gain more fluency in mental processing of their Latin - oral proficiency in spoken Latin is a welcome side effect. 

This course is intended for Latin Teachers and more advanced students of Latin wishing to gain more fluency in mental processing of their Latin - oral proficiency in spoken Latin is a welcome side effect. 

 A complete beginner will benefit greatly from the Latin Mastery course, but it will be hard work.

 A more gradual introduction is provided by the Adler Audio Course, which, when combined with Comenius, make for a fantastic introduction to Latin. This course could be used alongside those, or as a follow-on from using them.

Alternative audio courses available in Latinum's audiobook catalogue are D'Ooge's Latin Audio Course, or the Serial and Oral Introductory Course 

LATIN MASTERY

 Linguam Latinam non ex infinitis grammaticorum praeceptis, sed ex veterum librorum lectione et imitatione comparandam esse.

The Latin language is not acquired from an infinity of grammatical rules, but from reading the books of the ancients, and through imitation.

- Jacob Flacciolatus , anno 1715 

Prendergast's Handbook to the Oral Mastery Series. (TEXT)

Textbook: Prendergast's Mastery Series (Latin)    (Second Edition) (TEXT)

Textbook: Prendergast's Mastery Series (Latin)    (Third Edition) (TEXT)

NOTE: Prendergast strongly advises the student NOT to look at the text, but to make this a completely oral exercise.

THE METHOD

How does Prendergast's Latin Mastery work? There is a carefully structured series of statements in English, which you need to immediately translate orally into Latin. 

Each exercise starts with a simple phrase or sentence, and then builds the sentence up phrase by phrase and clause by clause, ending with a complex sentence.

A bell is sounded, followed by a brief pause, which should provide sufficient time for you to translate. Following the pause, a model translation is given. Pay close attention to your word order. 

If you need more time, press pause. You should repeat the lesson until you find pausing unnecessary.

Although this course is intended for students and teachers who have already studied Latin for some years, beginners can nevertheless make use of these exercises by repeatedly listening to and attempting the oral Latin answers. 

If you are a beginner, your progress will be very slow, as you will more or less need to memorise the answers. Prendergast assumes a beginner working on this course for at the minimum of an hour a day, with three separate periods of 20 minutes per day,  would take three years to complete it, and that only ten minutes of new exercises should be attempted per day, with the rest of the time spent in intensive review. 

Thanks to F. Pina and E. Arnold for proofing the audio as I release it.

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The Latinum Latin Course

Have you always wanted to learn Latin? I mean really learn it, so you can pick up a Roman author and enjoy your reading? Latinum offers a value for money Latin course that will take you from beginners through to advanced. Latinum's wide range of resources is used by beginners and Latin teachers alike.
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The Latinum Audiobook Catalogue.

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The Latinum Audiobook Catalogue.

Linguam Latinam non ex infinitis grammaticorum praeceptis, sed ex veterum librorum lectione et imitatione comparandam esse.

The Latin language is not acquired from an infinity of grammatical rules, but from reading the books of the ancients, and through imitation.
- Jacob Flacciolatus , anno 1715

The Latinum Audiobook Catalogue.

http://latinum.org.uk
The Latinum Audiobook Catalogue.

Linguam Latinam non ex infinitis grammaticorum praeceptis, sed ex veterum librorum lectione et imitatione comparandam esse.

The Latin language is not acquired from an infinity of grammatical rules, but from reading the books of the ancients, and through imitation.
- Jacob Flacciolatus , anno 1715

The Latinum Audiobook Catalogue.

http://latinum.org.uk
The Latinum Audiobook Catalogue.

Linguam Latinam non ex infinitis grammaticorum praeceptis, sed ex veterum librorum lectione et imitatione comparandam esse.

The Latin language is not acquired from an infinity of grammatical rules, but from reading the books of the ancients, and through imitation.
- Jacob Flacciolatus , anno 1715

The Latinum Audiobook Catalogue.

http://latinum.org.uk
The Latinum Audiobook Catalogue.

Linguam Latinam non ex infinitis grammaticorum praeceptis, sed ex veterum librorum lectione et imitatione comparandam esse.

The Latin language is not acquired from an infinity of grammatical rules, but from reading the books of the ancients, and through imitation.
- Jacob Flacciolatus , anno 1715

NEW AUDIOBOOK: L. Annaeus Florus' Short Version of Roman History, in a Latin paraphrase by John Stirling.

NEW AUDIOBOOK: L. Annaeus Florus' Short Version of Roman History, in a Latin paraphrase by John Stirling. Currently in production at http://latinum.org.uk

Lucius Annaeus Florus (c. 74 AD – c. 130 AD) was a Roman historian who lived in the time of Trajan and Hadrian. He was born in Africa.

He compiled, chiefly from Livy, a brief sketch of the history of Rome from the foundation of the city to the closing of the temple of Janus by Augustus (25 BC). The work is written in a rhetorical style – a hymn to the greatness of Rome, the life of which is divided into the periods of infancy, youth and manhood.

Eutropius - A Latin Paraphrase by John Stirling

Now available as an audiobook from Latinum.

How to Read Latin like a Roman.

In this video on YouTube  Evan der Millner discusses how to approach your reading of Latin literature, if you want to read Latin like an ancient Roman.

New Latin Audiobook: Maud Reed's 'JULIA'

Latinum has released a new Latin Language audiobook - 'Julia', by Maud Reed.

This Latin audiobook contains stories of Roman myth, legend, pseudo-history, and history. The conceit of the book is that the stories were recited to a young girl, Julia, an inhabitant of Roman Britain.  The audiobook is for the most part quite elementary, and is intended for beginners, although all levels of students of Latin benefit from listening to 'comprehensible input', and so-called easy Latin can still boost a more advanced students' fluency.

Conversational Spoken Latin Course

Conversational Spoken Latin Audio Course - Latin taught through Latin.

Beginners Latin Course and Latin Audiobooks

Intermediate Latin Course and Latin Audiobooks

Advanced Latin Course and Latin Audiobooks

 STREAMING CATALOGUE:

•  Streaming  $5 /month  Including Adler, Aesop's Fables, Bennett, Latin Bible, Busching, Caesar, Holy Mass, Catullus, Chickering, Coleridge, Collar, Comenius, Corderius, D'Ooge, Erasmus, Eutropius, Fay, Fenton, L'Homond, Maxey, Nepos, Nutting, Pexenfelder, Reed, Reynolds, Sonnenschein, Stanford and Scott ,Virgil, and more

DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE:

•  Streaming + Download  $10 /month including Adler's complete Latin Audio Course (191 hours), Book of Psalms, Caesar Reading Book, Caesar Grammar Course, Taylor's Caesar, Coleridge, Comenius Vestibulum, Comenius Orbis Pictus, Der Kleine Lateiner, Eutropius, Nepos, D'Ooge Latin Course, D'Ooge Colloquia, L'Homond Historiae Sacrae, Materia Medica, Maxey's Cornelia, Maxey's New Latin Primer, Pexenfelder, Psalms, Puer Romanus, Sanford and Scott, Dictionary in Audio, Underwood's Latin Course, and more.

A selected number of items are still available in DVD format on Latinum's e-store at Kunaki.

If you would like an item from the digital catalogue issued in DVD, please let me know. Individual products from the old catalogue are also available for purchase as downloads on Latinum's Payloadz E-Store.

If you are not yet a member of a Latin study network, I recommend that you join

1.   Textkit2.   LatinDiscussion.  
Both of these groups pre-date the Facebook era. They have long established and friendly communities of Latin scholars and students who can help you with your studies. 

Latinum founded:  

• A very busy Latin Chatroom, the Locutorium Latinum on Skype, 

• The ΔIAΛOΓOI ATTIKOI on Skype (Attic Greek Chatroom)

• A new Latin Social Web on Houseparty - the Convivium Latinum.

SUPPORTING LATINUM

By supporting Latinum, you get access to a huge reward - the world's largest (and growing) collection of Latin audiobooks read in Classical Pronunciation, which is hosted here on Patreon behind a paywall. Your generous and kind support enables me to work consistently on producing more audio Latin, and to devote time to maintaining and expanding my collection of Audio-Visual Latin on my You-Tube channel as well.

Being a $5 a month supporter gives you access to the entire Streaming Catalogue. 
The $10 support level additionally gives you access to the download catalogue. Download zip files can be listened to offline, and have the added convenience that the long texts are broken up into shorted convenient sub-units to make them easier to use.

A selected number of items are still available in DVD format on Latinum's e-store at Kunaki.

If you would like an item from the digital catalogue issued in DVD, please let me know. You will also find these products listed in the Patreon catalogue, available for download.

Read reviews for Latinum at Trust Pilot

Read reviews for Latinum at Trust Pilot

All the audio here is carefully read in restored classical pronunciation. Evan der Millner's pronunciation of Latin has been extensively peer reviewed, and conforms to the academic gold standard - W S Allen's 'Vox Latina', Sturtevant, and the Cambridge Philological Society guidelines.

Videos and playlists on Latinum's extensive Latin collection YouTube Channel. Your membership subscription here also supports  Latinum's You Tube channel. This includes three introductory audio-visual Latin courses.

New additions to Latinum, and works in progress. (Note: recent uploads may not be catalogued until completed.)

Almost all the textbooks used by Latinum are available for free on Archive.org, Books.google.com, Europeana.eu or Openlibrary.org. There is no need for you to buy textbooks if you use this course. Links to pdf textbooks are provided.

The Book of Psalms in Classical Latin Audio

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Virgil in English and Latin read phrase by phrase.

http://latinum.org.uk

Conversational Spoken Latin - Colloquia Latina - A Latin Audiobook

Benjamin D'Ooge's 'Colloquia Latina' in Latin audio

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Sonnenschein's 'Pro Patria' is now available at Latinum in audiobook format

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Sonnenschein's 'Pro Patria' is now available at Latinum in audiobook format.

John Stirling's Latin Language Paraphrase of Eutropius

AUDIOBOOK: Latinum has published the first complete audio edition of John Stirling's Latin Language Paraphrase of Eutropius' Abbreviated History of Rome. http://latinum.org.uk

Latinum's New Livery

I have been experimenting with new Livery for Latinum, including a series of coloured line drawings on Classical themes.