Welcome to the Resource Page for "Lingua Latina et Graeca". This page contains an archive-list of all the podcasts that have appeared on lingualatinaetgraeca.mypodcast.com, ordered according to their sources. Right clicking on the relevant mp3 file will allow you to download that file directly from the mypodcast.com site.
Latest News: Thursday, January 31st, 2009:
David Clark has just started up a project of recorgin Kendrick's material. For the moment you can check it out at at Internet Archive: Greek Ollendorf. I'd heartily recommend you follow his podcasts, as I suspect he may get much further than I. His pronunciation is classical restored, which is always good to hear.
* Let's be honest, I haven't updated this page in over a year. Nonetheless, I consistently get hits.
Here's where things are at: 2008 was a wipe-out for podcasting. I married in late 2007, moved, worked more or less full time, studied for 2 degrees, and tried to keep up language studies.
In 2009 I *do* intend to do some more podcasting. But I'm not making you any promises. I'm particularly keen to get back to the Kendrick Greek materials. I'm also hoping to standardise my idiosyncratic pronunciation back towards a restored classical a little more. If you've subscribed to the podcast, you'll know if/when things start back up again. Otherwise, you can read my regular blog at Compliant Subversity. Alternatively, I will update this page if/when things start up again. Lastly, I'm always willing to try a little Latin/Greek conversation.
At present, I am working on the following different sources to aid you in learning Ancient Greek and Latin.
"A Greek Boy at Home" files containing readings from a graded continuous reader written by W.H.D. Rouse, and published in 1909 (as far as I can establish). A scanned .pdf file of this text, and the vocabulary is available: A Greek Boy at Home Vocabulary for A Greek Boy at Home
I am working on a typed version which will hopefully be clearer and more user-friendly. I will post that when it is complete.
"Greek via Kendrick" files contain lessons from Asahel C. Kendrick's 'Greek Ollendorf' from 1851. You can download this book from Google Books, either by searching for "Greek Ollendorf Kendrick", or by following this link
"Intensive Oral Latin" files are another resource I am experimenting with. They are based quite derivatively from the FSI language courses, and consist of a series of oral drills in Latin. I recommend looking at the accompanying lesson-transcripts, as there is no English on the recording, and then listening through again without the English.
"Greek and English Dialogues" is a series of 25 dialogues of conversational Greek published in 1875 by John Stuart Blackie. I will be posting a copy of the dialogue-transcripts shortly.
"Puer Romanus" is a Graded Reader for Latin, designed for the Direct Method. It was published in 1913, written by R.B. Appleton.
The text is available for Download here: Puer Romanus
"Latin Conversation for the 21st Century" is a project I am *very* slowly working on. I envisage an extensive course dealing with conversational latin ranging from basic use to advanced conversation, with both ancient and modern contexts. As you can imagine, it's not the highest priority, but I am working on it.
My update schedule is very irregular. I'm trying to do posts about once every two weeks at the moment, but no promises.
Links Latinum - Evan Millner's Latinum is the best Latin podcast on the web.
Please feel free to contact me with suggestions, experiences, findings, etc., and help me to make excellent materials for bringing the standard of Latin and Ancient Greek to a very high level indeed.
Many thanks to all who are supporting this project, and the kind help that has been offered. Not everything here is perfect, but I am striving to improve the materials, just as I hope you are striving to learn the ancient tongues of Greek and Latin as well as you can (and as I myself continue to do so).
If you wish to contact me, please email me at: seumas at jeltzz.com
Alternatively, I am usually happy to chat on Skype
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