We’re excited to announce that the Ancient Language Institute has launched a brand-new podcast: New Humanists. Jonathan Roberts and Ryan Hammill founded ALI in order
Editor’s Note: While surreptitiously rooting around in the Vatican Archives, an employee of one of those organizations that opposes spoken Latin and the principles of
The Romance languages: We love to learn them. Even as other languages rise in global significance, French, Spanish, and Italian remain among the most popular
In an exquisite passage about language learning, C. S. Lewis recounts his early forays into Ionic Greek, taught by the legendary William Kirkpatrick (a.k.a. “The
Do Attic Greek and Koine Greek represent different eras, different dialects, or something else entirely? More importantly, which one should you learn? In this article,
One reason many people never master a language is that they simply don’t put in the time. Language acquisition happens gradually, and it takes many
Imagine being able to read 1,000 pages of riveting myths, epics, and novellas—in an ancient language. Now imagine doing this in an introductory language course.
No, Latin is not dead. It’s not that your teachers deliberately lied to you – they simply repeated a widely circulated claim they’d also heard
