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The Ancient Language Institute offers the fastest Latin language learning program in the world. Most programs and methods treat Latin like a museum artifact, fit to be handled only by white-gloved experts.

Our Beginner and Intermediate Course prepare future Latin scholars of any time period. Starting in the Advanced Course, you can customize your language learning journey by choosing between the Ancient Rome Track and the Christendom Track.

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While most people who learn Latin are interested in reading the great Latin texts of history, many also enjoy learning to speak Latin, which is why conversational Latin groups and classes are growing in popularity.

We use an interactive digital vocabulary-building platform to introduce students to new Latin terms. This software combines images and sounds with the target term, always used in a memorable context. The combination of sounds and images allows students to quickly and enjoyably understand Latin words, in the ways that ancient and medieval Latin writers used them. Our vocabulary learning platform is what flashcards want to be when they grow up!

In most courses, students are so burdened by grammar that they hardly get to enjoy actually reading in Latin. Our Latin grammar software is the perfect tool for fixing this. Our platform grants students access to short lectures on Latin grammar that are characterized by clear explanations and helpful images. Then, you complete intuitive drill exercises that creatively combine sounds and images. All in all, it adds up to make the mastery of Latin grammar more attainable and enjoyable than in any other language course.

All of our classes are live, virtual classes. Learning a language with other live people, plus the combination and careful sequencing of materials we employ, allows our classes to be highly productive and fun. In class, students see the vocabulary and grammar they have studied that week in a fresh and creative way, which prepares them to read their assigned texts with ease and success.

Further, in every class session, students are also exposed to additional comprehensible input in a way that prepares and allows students to interact with Latin actively. The best way to learn to read Latin is to speak and to write it! Thus, students will also learn to compose and speak in Latin.

The work of one of our heroes, the linguist Stephen Krashen (who has made all of his research on second language acquisition available for free), has convinced us that students acquire languages through extensive exposure to comprehensible input.

Hey guys! I've been interested in learning Latin for a while now, and since my native language (Portuguese) came from Latin I already have a very, very crude idea of how it works, but I want to learn more. Since Latin is a dead language it's pretty hard to find actual teachers (especially where I live lol) or really anything about it, save for some courses on "shady" websites and dictionaries. I've heard that DuoLingo has a basic Latin course, so should I use it as my starting point and then move onto whatever else I find? If any of you knows about courses or other things that I should check out then let me know. Thanks!

Though Latin is generally referred to as one of the dead languages, it is still a great skill to acquire, translating Latin text and knowing the basics of Latin studies can even help with the learning process of multiple languages for the native English speaker.

We can trace the origins of Latin back to an early branch of the Indo-European language family and the Phoenician alphabet writing system, where groups of people living along the Tiber River used this dialect almost exclusively as their mother tongue.

However, Classical written Latin is the form that has endured most cohesively to this day, and is actually the type of Latin grammar that we will be discussing further when it comes to learning this not-so-dead language!

Thanks to the well-preserved writings of many influential Roman poets, orators, and playwrights, we have plenty of sources of the Classical Latin language to learn from and translate into modern languages.

But as Emperor Charlemagne brought about a massive change in the 800s AD with his attempts at unification for Western and Central Europe during one of the first successful Roman leaderships in centuries, Latin was about to remerge into the spotlight of European history and alter the course of many languages.

Through the preservation and study of Latin, however, we can see a great impact on a variety of other languages and styles of writing, including romance languages that share Latin roots, and the revival of Classic Latin tragedies and comedies.

EdX Courses also offers online language learning, including a variety of Latin lessons that even cover the lesser-known Ecclesiastical Latin and even the Vulgar dialect. Comprehensive and flexible, this course is a great option.

Smartphone applications are one of the best ways to fit daily Latin language learning into your daily life. These convenient apps let you spend a few minutes every day immersed in Latin, wherever and whenever!

Duolingo is famous for its persistent notifications when it comes to learning a new language, including a Latin course. With as little as 5 minutes a day, these bite-sized Latin lessons are great for learning.

The Cambridge Latin Course is the other primary source for Latin textbooks and academic lessons. Published by Cambridge University Press, this complete course uses lesson plans and distance learning support to help Latin students succeed.

The Loeb Classical Library is another way to learn Latin by visiting the source of literary works. Similarly, PHI Latin Texts forms an online compendium of some Classical works in Latin, along with the Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum virtual library.

The Latinum channel uploads Latin lessons consistently, for all levels of students. Further, Latintutorial has a wide range of playlists that cover grammar, sentence structure, and much more. For younger learners, the Satura Lanx channel might be ideal.

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Despite what you may have heard, Latin is hardly a "dead language." Many Latin words have made their way into our everyday speech, with even more being used on a regular basis by doctors, lawyers, and scientists. Many words in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and other languages come from Latin. Although Latin isn't commonly offered in a lot of schools, you can learn Latin on your own with a little self-discipline. Start by mastering the Latin alphabet and pronunciation so you'll know how to sound out words, even if you don't know what they mean. Use drills and exercises to help with grammar, which you'll also pick up if you try to read Latin text. It won't take long for you to start understanding spoken and written Latin. Bonam Fortunam! (Good luck!)[1]XResearch source

Tip: Recognizing the verb inflection is especially critical in Latin because the word order of sentences is much more flexible than in English and other languages. However, if you can recognize the verb, you can also find the subject, regardless of where the words appear in the sentence.

The book Learning Latin the Ancient Way explains more about how ancient students learned Latin, Stories of Daily Life from the Roman World provides translations of all the ancient Latin-learning dialogues, and Reading ancient schoolroom offers a modern reconstruction of ancient Latin classes.

After having successfully learned one modern foreign language within the shortest amount of time - given the amount of time I had, methodologies I applied, and materials I used, I went on to learn another one, and I can already see positive results. However, as I am planning on learning Latin by myself next year, I fail to come to a final draft as to what would be the most effective and efficient way to go about learning Latin. Just to contextualize:

I mixed many methodologies and strategies to learn the first language which helped me achieve a native-like level, the main ones being (1) a 4-skill-based comprehensive input system, and (2) a gradual exposure to intensive grammar lessons.

There is a lot of science behind many of the strategies I used, nevertheless I am not sure how I should start Latin mainly because it is not a spoken language anymore - at least for the most part. I would assume that since that is the case, my only objective while learning Latin would be learning as many words as possible while understanding the grammar for me to develop "reading knowledge." However, when I think of all the things I have studied about vocabulary learning, one thing that comes to my mind is that scientifically one's brain learns languages faster if there is a combination of orthography and phonology - the latter being almost nonexistent since there are no materials out there with recordings in Latin. In my estimation, the lack of the spoken language would be a major setback. If I am right and the only possible outcome would be having reading knowledge in Latin, how should I do that efficiently? Has anyone gotten stuck at learning classical languages because they are not spoken anymore - and also because the materials are scarce? If you have, feel free to share your experience and opinion. 17dc91bb1f