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Magistra's web page for her students at South High School, Minneapolis, Minnesota


tempestas Latine
        Vicipaedia         Google Latine     Nuntii Latini   

At FreeRice.com you can improve your English vocabulary while you

                                         get the site’s sponsors to donate rice through the United Nations World Food Program

 

Why study Latin?  Links to other people's videos and articles.     Also, by popular demand, the Life of Brian clip in which Brian gets a Latin lesson from a Roman centurion:  Romans, go home!   Ok, there's a tiny bit of inappropriateness in this one.

 

South Latin students:  Click here for Latin auxilia (help; aids)   And here’s the Lady BaBa video. 

 

            Online books in easy Latin: tarheelreader               

   

          Events:         Ludi Romani Saturday, January 14, 2017 at Minnehaha Academy.   Go to www.ludi-romani.org for the address and all the details.

                                    Cena Romana (Roman Banquet) in late winter/early spring

                                   

 

 

Latinists in the news:  Latin Lives (The Nation) Reginald Foster probably is, as the reporter notes, the most famous Latinist in the world.  I was fortunate enough to be in his summer class in Rome twenty-something years ago.  A nice story about him:    Mike Lowe Reports   What a character.  (I love characters.  Most of my favorite Latin teachers have been characters.)

 

The University of Kentucky made a half-hour program about Terence Tunberg’s conversational Latin workshops (which have become an indispensable part of my summers):  Conventiculum Latinum                  

 

Classical civilization in the news:        

     

                        What is made of over 190,000 pieces and took more than 470 hours to assemble?  Lego Pompeii;  Lego Pompeii (Wikipedia)   

                        The speeches of president Obama owe much to classical oratory:  The New Cicero . 

                        Ok, now that you’ve read that, for dessert you may read   Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy .                         

                        (N.B. – that’s an abbreviation for the Latin nota bene, “note well”— this is a humor piece.)

                       


Is Latin hard to learn?  Even little kids can learn Latin (another video clip, but not Monty Python).
                                   

Cambridge-related games:  http://www.classicspage.com/caecilius

 

 
You can find links to other interesting Latin- and Greek-related stuff at http://eclassics.ning.com ;  Rogueclassicism is a blog commenting on all things classical Greek & Roman.

 


                                                  

Cena Romana MMVIII

   

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