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| millnerlondon Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom latinum.org.uk Joined 6202 days ago 16 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, Modern Hebrew, French | Message 1 of 1 21 December 2009 at 2:12am | IP Logged |
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There are free audio courses for Classical Latin available from itunes.
These courses are also available for free as a podcast from the LATINUM website. Course materials are extensive, and are aimed at fluency - Latinum was set up in response to Latin becoming a language in danger of extinction, as a spoken medium. From the fall of Rome, there have always been speakers of the language, and they have transmitted their skill to one another. The number of fluent speakers is now dangerously low - possibly only 40 or so, worldwide. Of these, many are over 60 years old. Many thousands of students are now learning Latin orally using the Latinum course, which has been online since early 2007. Thus, Latinum provides a full audio course in spoken Latin ( excellent preparation for reading Plautus, Terence, and renaissance theatrical works in Latin, of which there are hundreds). This course has over 700 episodes, and is very complete. In addition to this free course, two others are available - both only published online in Nov this year. The first is an audio rendering of Benjamin D'Ooge's textbook, 'Latin for beginners'. The second is more interesting, an audio version of Underwood's Latin course for pharmacology and medical students. This is a course that has been out of circulation for over 170 years. It is very well written, and is an excellent introduction to Latin grammar - but all the examples deal with chemistry and medical matters. If you have a scientific bent, you will enjoy using this course as part of your studies. All the texts have pdf versions available on google books or on archive.org All these materials are also available on DVD for a very small price, if you don't want to download them for free. 10 persons have voted this message useful |
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