Youtube Channel : LATINUM.ORG.UK

This channel accompanies a website which sells a lot of the resources that are used in the course, however the Youtube Channel is free and there are hundreds of videos on there, many with a specific focus on Latin, including children's books in Latin.

The owner of these videos presents an entire Latin course in Latin, allowing you to learn in Latin, rather than permanently translate everything. Whilst I haven't yet found the website as useful since everything is paid, I definitely think that the videos could enhance your learning if you watch them.

The first lesson is embedded above, so you can see what I mean. I hope that you take the time to check out the rest of this guy's videos!

LATINUM.ORG.UK

A list of just some of his playlists is below:

Some More Translation Practice...

To get better at translating or to start studying a text try the first few paragraphs of Horace the Satires (Book 1) below:

gressum magna me accepit Aricia Roma
hospition modico: rhetor comes Heliodorus,
Graecorum longe doctissimus; inde Forum Appi,
differtum nautis, cauponibus atque malignis.

hoc iter ignavi divisimus, altius ac nos (5)
praecinctis unum: minus est gravis Appia tardis.
Hic ego propter aquam, quod erat deterrima, ventri
indico bellum, cenantis haud animo aequo
exspectans comites. iam nox inducere terris

umbras et caelo diffundere signa parabat. (10)
tum pueri nautis, pueris convicia nautae
ingerere. “huc apelle!” “trecentos inseris: ohe
iam satis est!” dum aes exigitur, dum mula ligatur,
tota abit hora. mali culices ranaeque palustres

Latin Metre

To be able to read and analyse any Latin Literature, you need to be able to understand if not use latin metre so for todays (almost) contextual lesson/powerpoint we have (drum roll please)
An introduction to Latin Metre
So hopefull this will serve as an introduction, so that we can go on to look at some texts.

Note: from now on the posts may be a little more mixed, but will mostly include contextual information and of course some literature on the way.
The literature texts we will be looking at will be Pliny the Elder, Sempronia, Clodia and some others- which I havent decided about yet- sooo....
Until next time!