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Join Ōsweald the talking bear on his adventures through Anglo-Saxon England, as he makes friends (and enemies), gets involved in royal intrigue, and learns all about the world.
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We publish beautiful editions of literature written in ancient languages, from new releases to old treasures. @theancientlang @ekholang
Katılım Ağustos 2024
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@maelbutevil Great question! Many are saying that @colingorrie's Old English reader inspired by LLPSI, titled Ōsweald Bera, rivals it! We are a little biased, since we published it through our @vergilpress imprint. ancientlanguage.com/vergil-press/o…
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Thousands of people have had the magical experience of picking up LLPSI, a book written entirely in Latin, and understanding the first chapter almost entirely by intuition and a few great illustrations. All without any previous Latin study or knowledge.
LLPSI (Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata) gets a little more complicated after that, though, which is where ALI's tools and teachers come in.
Learning a language requires learning thousands of words of vocabulary. It also requires learning the grammar - how all the words fit together and change to create meaning. Latin's system of case declensions, in particular, often present a novel and daunting challenge to beginners.
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Henry Sweet's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon has arrived which will go nicely with his Primer and @colingorrie's Ōsweald Bera!
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@ekholang @vergilpress I’ve been using the audio book along with my well used copy of the First Steps, it’s great! @colingorrie
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Salvēte, all you new followers! We're thrilled that so many of you found us because of this video. (And greetings to all of our old friends, too!)
We will make more "How to Read Ancient Poetry" videos, but if you want to learn Latin or Greek directly from Joanna or her wonderful colleagues in a class here at ALI, check out what we're offering this upcoming summer term!
We have everything from total beginner classes (in Biblical Hebrew and Old English too!), to intermediate and advanced literature classes, to advanced Greek and Latin composition classes, with lots in between. Links below, along with highlights of some - but not all - of the interesting stuff happening here at ALI. 🧵👇
Ancient Language Institute@theancientlang
"How to Read Ancient Poetry" is a new video series from the Ancient Language Institute (ALI), which introduces people to Latin and Ancient Greek poetry. ALI's mission is to aid students in their path to proficiency in ancient languages, to improve the way ancient languages are taught, and to foster a rebirth of the humanistic tradition. The "How to Read Ancient Poetry" videos train students in the meters used in Greek and Latin verse, illustrate historical reconstructions of ancient language pronunciation, and introduce the wide array of poets and poems from Classical antiquity. Joanna Thornhill is an Ancient Greek & Latin Fellow at the Ancient Language Institute. In this video, she walks students through a single line from Virgil's Aeneid: "Hīs ego nec mētās rērum nec tempora pōnō" (1.278).
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"How to Read Ancient Poetry" is a new video series from the Ancient Language Institute (ALI), which introduces people to Latin and Ancient Greek poetry.
ALI's mission is to aid students in their path to proficiency in ancient languages, to improve the way ancient languages are taught, and to foster a rebirth of the humanistic tradition.
The "How to Read Ancient Poetry" videos train students in the meters used in Greek and Latin verse, illustrate historical reconstructions of ancient language pronunciation, and introduce the wide array of poets and poems from Classical antiquity.
Joanna Thornhill is an Ancient Greek & Latin Fellow at the Ancient Language Institute. In this video, she walks students through a single line from Virgil's Aeneid: "Hīs ego nec mētās rērum nec tempora pōnō" (1.278).
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Pop culture. Cancel culture. Judeo-Christian culture. Everyone likes to talk about "culture," but what actually is it?
One of the greatest writers of the 20th century, the poet and essayist T.S. Eliot, wrote a short book, Notes Toward the Definition of Culture, attempting to answer exactly that question.
Written in the latter days of World War Two, as the Allied nations began to realize that Germany's surrender was imminent and that it was up to them to rebuild European culture, Eliot's Notes Toward the Definition of Culture was part of a broader anxiety among European and American elites about what the postwar world would look like.
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Instead of worrying about which translation of Homer to choose, how about you just read him in Greek?
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Not so modest that I won't RT this though
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Since @colingorrie is a modest man (though with very immodest goals!) we'll cheer and crow for him. Familia Romana is indeed a masterpiece of Latin pedagogy. But what Colin has achieved with his Old English textbook, Osweald Bera, is even more extraordinary.
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@colingorrie He has written a gentle, graded introduction to a historical language - and done so by writing an absolute PAGE-TURNER. There are no contrived chapters about the calendar here.
Check it out: ancientlanguage.com/osweald-bera
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Since @colingorrie is a modest man (though with very immodest goals!) we'll cheer and crow for him. Familia Romana is indeed a masterpiece of Latin pedagogy. But what Colin has achieved with his Old English textbook, Osweald Bera, is even more extraordinary.
ComprehensibleLatin@ComprehensLatin
Familia Rōmāna is really good, but it suffers from a couple of drawbacks: - a significant amount of re-reading is required to learn the words, which can become boring. - the story itself is sometimes slow-paced (e.g. ch. 12 where the whole chapter is Julius telling Marcus about Roman military equipment) - characterization is generally good (e.g. you could see how Iulius would have been like Marcus when he was younger) and some of the story arcs are fun (like Medus & Lydia) but, overall, the book doesn't really go anywhere. It's a BIG improvement over random, context-less sentences (or, even worse, charts of word endings), but it's not up to the level of being a story that one would read on its own if it were in English. Some of these are largely imposed by the format: - the book can only be so big, as to not be unwieldy. - the book aims to cover all of the main grammar forms, which drives the plot in places (e.g. Syra having bad hearing so that we can see indirect quotations be used). This imposition can be seen by contrasting Familia Rōmāna with its companion book, Colloquia Persōnārum, which feels faster-paced because each story is story-driven and doesn't aim for needing to 'cover everything'. @colingorrie 's Old English reader Osweald Bera improves upon Familia Rōmāna in that the story is much more compelling, to the point where I wanted to read the next chapter just to find out what happens to the characters. So what do we do for Latin? My most feasible proposal is that we need a few novels, around 5,000-20,000 words in length, written at about a Familia-Romana-chapter-15 level of difficulty, where the plot moves quickly. Stories that should exist on their own merits, but are written in simple enough form to be read at a reasonable pace by learners.
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ANNOUNCING: 𝗣𝗟𝗨𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛 𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗣
Ten days of Ancient Greek immersion.
June 14 - 23
At Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC.
Skill-based cohorts reading Plutarch's Life of Alexander, Life of Cato, Sayings of the Spartans (and other selections from the Moralia).
Three master teachers: Stephen Hill, Joanna Thornhill, John James.
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🔊🔊🔊Brand new audio in both Ancient Greek and Old English now live! 🔊🔊🔊
Let's take a little tour of what's new... 🧵
Ekho@ekholang
New audiobooks going up on Monday (Feb. 2).
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Should we run a Latin immersion event this summer?
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