Translation Advice

Here is some advice about translating from Carmen Online Latin.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

I realise that everyone has slightly different methods, but I hope that for some of you at least, this will help! 

Featured Book

Having finished Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, we move on to a series of commentaries of Julius Caesar's first book of Civil War.

This is a commentary of the book found on the Perseus Collection

Featured Podcast

This week I recommend you listen to this radio interview entitled "You Can't Dream in Latin" by an Australian radio station, it's quite interesting, and discusses the effects of Latin on the Western World.

Click here to Stream the Audio

You can see the transcript here if you wish

Featured Website

Drills to accompany the Oxford Latin Course, second edition, chapter by chapter from the University of Missouri St Louis. 

Here is the Website

Featured Book

Following on from the last featured book, this week is Volume 5 of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.

Find it here

Featured Podcasts

Dickinson College has another series of Latin Poetry Podcasts 

Christopher Francese, Professor of Classical Studies at Dickinson College, reads short poems in Latin.

The podcasts can be found on iTunes here

Featured Podcast

Some recorded Latin conversations recorded for you

Neo-Latin Colloquia by Various Renaissance Humanists 

Haec sunt colloquia scholastica viva voce acta compositaque ab humanistis sexti decimi saeculi ad usum tyronum linguae latinae. Istis fruere! Si dum audis haec colloquia illa et legere volueris, i ad paginam hanc: http://www.chlt.org/sandbox/colloquia/

Featured Website

This weeks featured website has a very large collection of different texts all available from the Colloquia collection

University of Kentucky - Institute for Latin Studies Colloquia Collection