Found in Antiquity

  • Aeneid poster for sale, and other merch!

    I’ve opened a merch shop for Found in Antiquity, to support my YouTube channel and my work in creating more comprehensible input in Latin and Ancient Greek! Aeneid Poster I’ve just started adding products, but let me show you this pretty poster: These are the first 11 lines of the Aeneid, the epic poem about Read more

  • A living Latin project: LingQ’s 60 Mini-Stories

    2023 update: The first 10 mini-stories are finalised! Here are the links to all audio files: Would you be interested in partnering with us to translate 60 Mini-Stories into Latin? This is an open, Creative Commons project in which we have the ability to create adaptations, videos, and supporting materials without fear of infringing copyright, Read more

  • How to boost your Latin acquisition up to 1200%

    If language acquisition is driven by comprehensible input, we want to maximise the amount of input for our students. But how can we do this without overloading an already crowded curriculum and burdening students with extra tasks? We have to do less of some things in order to make room for better things. In this Read more

  • A complete guide to Classical Latin pronunciation: the sounds of Golden Age Latin

    I have now made a Classical Latin pronunciation series on Youtube! Check out the first three parts here: These videos are suitable for complete beginners and advanced students alike. I speak 100% in Latin, with no English in these videos. This means I make no verbal descriptions of the sounds or comparisons to any variety Read more

  • Grammar Analysis scores don’t correlate with unseen translation ability

    Some of the types of assessments Latin teachers have been traditionally setting are quite weird, the kind of things that aren’t normally done in any other languages. Consequently, it is hard to find recent research on whether what we are testing really matters. Perhaps one of the strangest things we do is Grammar Analysis, where Read more

  • Why I’ve changed my mind on Comprehensible Input (but still can’t stand LLPSI)

    I used to seriously question the Comprehensible Input method for learning ancient languages, but now I strongly recommend it as fully authentic and the best method for gaining reading fluency and becoming a lifelong learner of ancient languages. However, I still cannot bring myself to recommend the Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata textbook (LLPSI) as Read more