This advanced Latin speaking course is for students who already feel comfortable speaking Latin, but want to keep growing in fluency, precision, and style. We will use the ancient progymnasmata as a guide for crafting conversation and exercises centered around developing our facility in Latin.
Each week will focus on a different kind of rhetorical exercise: fable, narrative, anecdote, confirmation and refutation, praise and blame, comparison, character description, thesis, and argument. These exercises will give us a structure for conversation, storytelling, debate, improvisation, and thoughtful discussion in Latin.
Students will practice retelling stories, expanding and condensing narratives, arguing for and against ideas, praising and criticizing figures from history and literature, comparing people and events, describing character and emotion, and discussing more abstract questions with greater freedom. Short Latin readings may serve as models or starting points, but the center of the course will be active use of Latin: listening, responding, paraphrasing, elaborating, persuading, and thinking aloud.
This course is especially well suited for advanced Latin speakers, Latin teachers, immersion participants, and highly proficient students who want to move beyond ordinary conversation into richer and more structured expression. The goal is not simply to speak more Latin, but to speak Latin with more confidence, depth, flexibility, and style: clārius, cōpiōsius, subtilius, ēlegantius.
Type: Speaking | Level: Advanced
Language of instruction: Latin
Class size cap: 6 | Platform: Zoom
Dates: June 14, 2026 - August 16, 2026 (no class on July 19 and July 26)
Meets (EST*): Sundays, 2:30 PM | 8 sessions (1h each)
Materials: The instructor will provide any required materials.
Sessions will be recorded and made available to enrolled participants for review or in case they missed a session.
Zoom
Decent internet connection
Earphones
Microphone
Webcam (preferred but optional)
A quiet space for classes
*The course will observe US time and thus will change according to daylight saving time.
Major US federal holidays are observed. If a participant misses a session due to their observance of a religious holiday, they can arrange a separate session with the instructor.
Education should be accessible. Choose the tier that fits your situation — no proof required, no shame included.
Supported — USD 200 total ($25 /hour)
for students, caretakers, or anyone stretched right now.
Standard — USD 280 total ($35 /hour)
full-value rate; covers the cost of small-group instruction.
Sustaining — USD 350 total (Standard Tier total + 25%)
full-value rate & your contribution to our LAC scholarship fund. Thank you!
This advanced Latin speaking course is for students who already feel comfortable speaking Latin, but want to keep growing in fluency, precision, and style. We will use the ancient progymnasmata as a guide for crafting conversation and exercises centered around developing our facility in Latin.
Each week will focus on a different kind of rhetorical exercise: fable, narrative, anecdote, confirmation and refutation, praise and blame, comparison, character description, thesis, and argument. These exercises will give us a structure for conversation, storytelling, debate, improvisation, and thoughtful discussion in Latin.
Students will practice retelling stories, expanding and condensing narratives, arguing for and against ideas, praising and criticizing figures from history and literature, comparing people and events, describing character and emotion, and discussing more abstract questions with greater freedom. Short Latin readings may serve as models or starting points, but the center of the course will be active use of Latin: listening, responding, paraphrasing, elaborating, persuading, and thinking aloud.
This course is especially well suited for advanced Latin speakers, Latin teachers, immersion participants, and highly proficient students who want to move beyond ordinary conversation into richer and more structured expression. The goal is not simply to speak more Latin, but to speak Latin with more confidence, depth, flexibility, and style: clārius, cōpiōsius, subtilius, ēlegantius.
Type: Speaking | Level: Advanced
Language of instruction: Latin
Class size cap: 6 | Platform: Zoom
Dates: June 14, 2026 - August 16, 2026 (no class on July 19 and July 26)
Meets (EST*): Sundays, 2:30 PM | 8 sessions (1h each)
Materials: The instructor will provide any required materials.
Sessions will be recorded and made available to enrolled participants for review or in case they missed a session.
Zoom
Decent internet connection
Earphones
Microphone
Webcam (preferred but optional)
A quiet space for classes
*The course will observe US time and thus will change according to daylight saving time.
Major US federal holidays are observed. If a participant misses a session due to their observance of a religious holiday, they can arrange a separate session with the instructor.
Education should be accessible. Choose the tier that fits your situation — no proof required, no shame included.
Supported — USD 200 total ($25 /hour)
for students, caretakers, or anyone stretched right now.
Standard — USD 280 total ($35 /hour)
full-value rate; covers the cost of small-group instruction.
Sustaining — USD 350 total (Standard Tier total + 25%)
full-value rate & your contribution to our LAC scholarship fund. Thank you!
Classes require a minimum number of participants to run although they may run with fewer participants, at the instructor’s discretion.
More than a week before the start of the course: 100% refund or credit
Less than a week before the first class up until the second class: credit
