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Latin Language for Students

YEAR: 2014

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Title of the resource

Lingua Latina Studentibus

Title of the resource in english

Latin Language for Students

Original language

Polish, Latin

Target and Age Group

Students, general public

Link to resource

Lingua Latina Studentibus

Accessed on 25 August, 2020

Contents & Purpose

The website provides students from diverse groups with a variety of educational aids. It contains original downloadable scripts to be used in class (see print screen), as well as a variety of files with learning resources: grammar, vocabulary, exercises, texts for self-study, a selection of prose and poetry (including audio recordings) or lyrics of Latin carols.

A significant portion of the website is dedicated to mythology and includes a genealogical chart of the gods, a quiz and a test on the knowledge of myths, access to the text of Parandowski’s Mythology and more specific resources about particular gods and myths. The Latin textbooks with illustrations are downloadable from the website and  feature mythical characters and their adventures which allows to learn both the language and mythological knowledge at the same time. In addition to the Latin texts, the textbooks also provide exercises that allow to easily master the new language skills.

The website also supplies palaeographic resources and hyperlinks to other useful websites, such as dictionaries, sources of texts and translations, translation tools, text corpora, and so on.

Further comments

As an unusual amusing bonus, the website includes entertaining examples of poor translations done by Latin students (e.g., quid times? [what are you afraid of?] - “what’s the time?”, eodem die [on the same day]- “Eodem died”, XL naves [40 ships]- “extra-large ships”).

You can also watch a recorded lecture Dlaczego (nie) uczyć się łaciny [Why (not) study Latin] given by the author in the finals of the Best Lecturer Plebiscite 2014.

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Title of the resource

Latin Language for Students

Title of the resource in english

Lingua Latina Studentibus

Original language

Polish, Latin

Target and Age Group

Students, general public

Link to resource

Lingua Latina Studentibus

Accessed on 25 August, 2020

Contents & Purpose

The website provides students from diverse groups with a variety of educational aids. It contains original downloadable scripts to be used in class (see print screen), as well as a variety of files with learning resources: grammar, vocabulary, exercises, texts for self-study, a selection of prose and poetry (including audio recordings) or lyrics of Latin carols.

A significant portion of the website is dedicated to mythology and includes a genealogical chart of the gods, a quiz and a test on the knowledge of myths, access to the text of Parandowski’s Mythology and more specific resources about particular gods and myths. The Latin textbooks with illustrations are downloadable from the website and  feature mythical characters and their adventures which allows to learn both the language and mythological knowledge at the same time. In addition to the Latin texts, the textbooks also provide exercises that allow to easily master the new language skills.

The website also supplies palaeographic resources and hyperlinks to other useful websites, such as dictionaries, sources of texts and translations, translation tools, text corpora, and so on.

Further comments

As an unusual amusing bonus, the website includes entertaining examples of poor translations done by Latin students (e.g., quid times? [what are you afraid of?] - “what’s the time?”, eodem die [on the same day]- “Eodem died”, XL naves [40 ships]- “extra-large ships”).

You can also watch a recorded lecture Dlaczego (nie) uczyć się łaciny [Why (not) study Latin] given by the author in the finals of the Best Lecturer Plebiscite 2014.