Conversational Latin for Beginners

Conversational Latin for Beginners

*Please note that this course will run only if two or more students enroll.

Course Description: In this course, you will learn how to have simple conversations in Latin! Building up on the passive knowledge of the participants, we will, on the one hand, practice conversing in Latin on various topics, on the other hand, improving your listening comprehension and writing skills. The focus will be on activating your passive vocabulary, learning to use synonyms, and repeat and practice rules of grammatical constructions, so that you will be able to use correct Latin – all this we can achieve through various methods such as image descriptions, games, reading and discussing texts from the “Familia Romana” and, most of all, learning from the best, this is: the Roman authors themselves. There will also be room for bettering your pronunciation, especially in terms of correct vowel and syllable length. The methods can be flexible based on the experience and needs of the participants!

DETAILS

Level: This course is intended for those, who know the basics of Latin grammar, but have no or little experience in speaking Latin.

Textbook:  Instructor will provide materials. As a general information: it is most helpful to read a lot of Latin authors and memorizing as many passages as possible to automatically know grammatical expressions and get a feeling for the language.

Sections capped at: 5 students. If the course is sold-out, please fill out this waiting-list form.

When
Thursdays, 3:00p.m. U.S. Eastern Time

Cost
$250

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Instructor

Marina Garanin

Salvete omnes, my name is Marina Garanin. Graduated from Heidelberg (Germany) and Oxford, I am currently working on my PhD on Latin translations from Greek at the University of Heidelberg. I have been teaching living Latin with Telepaideia and on different other occasions, such as, most recently, “Virgil and the Epic tradition” at “Living Latin in Rome” this year; also, I taught Latin metre and Latin verse composition. I have been practising spoken Latin since the beginning of my studies, and I have been taking part in different Latin (and Greek) speaking events. As I love acting, I also participated at “Thalia” in 2022 (Vicenza, Italy) and this year (Vilnius, Lituania), a Latin theater competition organized by the Schola Humanistica with two original tragedies, “Medeae Daemones” and “Agave”, written by Stefano Vittori, in which I played the parts of Medea and Agave. I write metrical poetry in Latin myself (some of the poems are published in the periodical “Vox Latina” from 2019 on). As for poetry recitations, I am currently recording various Latin poems which will soon be available on the app “Legentibus” by Daniel Pettersson from Latinitium. In my free time, besides of writing poetry and acting, I like drawing, singing and writing music; also, being a huge dog lover (not having one on my own though), I like studying dog behaviour and education. Also, I have a Latin YouTube channel (Musa Pedestris) where you can find poetry recitations, latin vlogs, livestreams, and other videos on Latin.