You are invited to St Catherine University (link) in St Paul, Minnesota, to attend Latin encounters with Reginald Foster on Friday 20 September from 7:00-9:00 PM and again on Saturday afternoon 21 September. The encounters are free and open to the public. Spoken Latin On Saturday afternoon the Classical Association of Minnesota will host a "Spoken Latin" event at the same venue. You may download a PDF flyer by clicking on the image of Reginald. You may distribute the flyer to all … [Read more...]

The organizational meeting for the Latin course held during the academic year 2013-2014 will be held on the first Monday of October - 7 October 2013 - beginning at 2:00 PM in the school of: St Florian's Church 1215 S 45th St West Milwaukee, WI 53214 USA. Thereafter class sessions are held at the same parish school. According to our system the people who show up can change the schedule of our afternoon sessions within certain limits. It all depends on who is coming or not, who can or … [Read more...]

Papal tweets in Latin were featured on NPR (National Public Radio) at this NPR web-page. The piece by Sylvia Poggioli features Mgr Daniel Gallagher, Reginald's successor in the Latin office of the Vatican Secretariat of State. Play with Papal tweets You can use papal tweets in your classroom to teach Latin by asking the students to play with each brief sentence in ways they have learned to do. We give several examples of how to do this at these blog-posts: Playing with Papal … [Read more...]

Stay tuned here for an update on OSSA LATINITATIS SOLA, our first book described here. Sadly I have nothing new to report in the past year. If you wish to receive email notification of blog entries - and eventual notification of the book's imminent publication, you may subscribe to the blog via email (located in the bottom right box of our home page). We will not pass your email information on to anyone; you may unsubscribe at any time you wish; our blog postings are periodical, so we shall not … [Read more...]

Reggie summer 2013 includes the following activities: New York The recently completed tour and visit to New York with friends and play with Latin texts. Read about it on our web-site or by Claudia Parsons writing for Reuters also carried in the New York Times among others.   AESTIVA MILVAUCHIAE LATINITAS MMXIII Latin summer school with Reginald Foster is soon to begin on Monday 3 June and run through Saturday 27 July. For more information go to our web-page linked … [Read more...]

Infinite thanks to Jason Pedicone and his colleagues at the Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, Inc. for the super organization of every detail for four memorable days we spent in New York City and nearby New Jersey and Pennsylvania 16-20 May, for paying the way and organizing all the necessities and conveniences of our various stops. Read our whole story here and see the pictures. Reginald says: My memories will be eternal of the event as well as my gratitude for the sacrifices and … [Read more...]

Progress update from Daniel McCarthy: I have been working with Reggie every morning for more than the past four weeks and we have two more weeks to go. We have only three more letters to go to complete the initial dictation of the 50 letters of Cicero we set as a goal for our second volume. Many of the letters I have revised and Reggie has reviewed and thus are in fairly complete form. Others I have yet to revise for review. Reggie has already composed the authors' introduction and we have … [Read more...]

We can appreciate Latin command forms by playing with the Papal tweet issued on 6 February, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord when vowed religious are especially remembered: Omnes nunc viros mulieresque capit mens Nostra religiosam votis vitam viventes: Christum paupertate castitate oboeditione fideles sectantor. “Right now our mind embraces all men and women living the religious life by vows: they must as faithful people follow Christ by means of poverty, chastity and … [Read more...]

Papal tweets help Latin teachers in classrooms around the world to teach and review the whole language. Take for example the first statement of a recent tweet: Dominica tandem dies quid nobis importat? In the final analysis, what does the day of the Lord do for us? The verb importat means more than "it imports", as if importing goods into the country. Rather it means "cause, bring, occasion, do". A teacher could could put this question in the passive right away: Dominica die quid nobis … [Read more...]