rbrücken, Germany. The texts are read very slowly, with quantities and accents strongly brought out. The topics are taken from everyday life and can therefore be useful for beginners. The speaker is Prof. Dr. Sigrid Albert. With Prof. Dr. Eichenseer she organizes several seminars of live Latin every year.
To learn more about the journal VOX LATINA:
COMIC STRIPS IN LATIN. Find Tintin, Asterix and Alix in Latin by clicking on Asterix:
LIVE LATIN ON THE INTERNET. Surf the world of live Latin on the Internet (TTT=www).
Among these links do not miss the essential "GREX LATINE LOQUENTIUM", a site where you can discuss the most diverse subjects with people across the whole world. To subscribe (free), click on the following link: Subnotatio Gregis.
To learn Latin live, the French-speakers have a stroke of good fortune, because they have at their disposal the best method for learning it, the Assimil method. This well-known method is based on repetition, listening and absorption in the language. You will find here the first 17 lessons in JPEG format, which you can print out in landscape orientation in order to follow the recorded lessons in sound files.
Text files (click on the book):
Sound files (click on the speaker):
There is another method, more for use in schools, that is very well-known and very much recommended in institutions open to live Latin. It is the Ørberg method, named after the Danish professor Hans Ørberg, who in the 60's brought out his Lingua latina per se illustrata. This method, called "direct method", is entirely in Latin. The texts of the lessons are immediately intelligible to the pupil. In fact, the texts have been composed in such a way that the meaning of the words and forms are made obvious, thanks to the illustrations, context and marginal notes (equally in Latin). Based on absorption into the language, this very live method leads to rapid progress. But beware! It is a live method for Latin, not a "live Latin" method, because all the topics that are dealt with are fully "classical", without any reference to modern times. It can therefore be said that this method is international because it is aimed at all pupils of Europe and the world, whatever their language of origin.
You can get an idea of this method by clicking on the following link:
LINGUA LATINA PER SE ILLUSTRATA
The pages to be found there are extracted from the Internet site:http://www.lingua-latina.dk/.
Another resource is the German book "Piper Salve". As in Ørberg, texts and explanations are in latin, except the lexic which is latin-german and german-latin. But the lessons are about modern topics. "Piper Salve" teaches modern latin and therefore "live latin". See an example through this link:
There, that's all! We hope that this cd will help you to get to know live Latin better.