The Latin Audio Books presented here, have been designed to help you become a fluent reader of Latin, and to guide you on the path to full fluency.
Learning grammar alone will not give you fluency, you need to expose yourself to a wide variety of texts - audio books make it possible to engage with Latin while doing other mundane tasks, thus allowing you to increase your exposure time to the language.
The readings are made in the restored classical pronunciation of Latin.
Evan Millner - Molendinarius is known for his sites Latinum.mypodcast.com and the Schola.ning.com Latin network, which he dreamed up in 2007 and 2008 respectively.
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Disc: $12.76 This DVD contains the mp3 files that make up the final section of the Adler audio course from lesson 96 through to lesson 97 of the Latinum Podcast's audio book of George Adler's "A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language for Speaking and Writing Latin". This disc also includes the re-reading of the 171 Latin Dictata, provided here for the purposes of review and consolidation.
Adler's Latin course is a full multi-level audio course for Latin, taught as a modern living language - perhaps the only such course currently in existence.
Adler's course is specifically designed from the outset to teach Latin orally from first principles to an advanced level, using an intense and graduated oral method. A pdf of the main text and the answer key (Latin Dictata)are included on this disc.
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Disc: $15.95 Latinum's re-issue in audio of Underwood's course in Latin for Medical Students is a unique offering. Underwood wrote his course for medical students taking the Latin examinations at London's Guild of Apothecaries. These students, as non-Latin specialists, required a more common-sense approach than was found in textbooks intended for Classicists. The result is a very accessible beginner's Latin audio course. It would also be useful as a revision course for the more seasoned student, as it approaches the subject from a fresh angle.
Underwood's textbook is available on google books at
http://books.google.com/books?id=OJd0p6YYPHUC
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Disc: $15.95 Latin for Beginners, by Benjamin D'ooge, has long been a favourite, and remains a popular textbook, despite its age. This Audio edition will accompany your journey through the textbook, making the trip a more pleasant one.
The text of this audio book can either be viewed online and downloaded for free at archive.org, or on textkit.com, or purchased as a hard copy from public domain reprints at the following url:
http://www.publicdomainreprints.org/titles/553
There is a dedicated forum on textkit.com for users of this textbook. An answer key is available for this textbook at textkit.com at the following url
http://www.textkit.com/learn/ID/158/author_id/13/
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Disc: $15.95 Over 80 years ago, Walter Ripman, in his 'Handbook of the Latin Language', organized Latin vocabulary into domains and subdomains. The noted New Testament scholar I. Howard Marshall, himself a student of Latin, claims that Ripman's reference was "an extremely useful way of organizing the material for a student learning Latin vocabulary." This DVD has 50 semantic fields, with sub-fields. It closely follows the pioneering work of Ripman. Each word is read in English and Latin, so correct quantity is learned naturally. Tens of thousands of words are presented - this DVD is intended to be listened to multiple times - initially this will be quite tiring, if not bewildering - however, this system will help to build your vocabulary rapidly, and, if refreshed on a monthly basis, the words you have learned will become consolidated, and new words will become engraved in your mind with each subsequent iteration.
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Disc: $15.95 Nutting's "De America". This delightful series of stories ( broken into 100 short episodes) are composed in relatively simple Latin. They chronicle the period from Christopher Colombus, until the founding of the American Republic. Conceived of as a reader introductory to Caesar, the series focuses on the period of discovery, and then on battles between the settlers and the Native Americans, and between the American colonists and the British, interspersed with individual tales of the trials of life during this interesting period of history. Occasional discursions are made when a comparison with Roman history seems apt. This is not a dry re-telling of history, but is a carefully crafted and delightful series of stories, that are well enough written that they bear listening to several times. Read in the restored classical pronunciation of Latin by Molendinarius. Recorded in November MMIX. A pdf of the text is included.
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Disc: $7.97 Fenton's Bible Stories in simplified Latin were first published in 1832. This reader contains a blend of religious doctrine, and a selection of stories from the Old Testament. The Flood, Cain and Abel, Abraham and Isaac, Joseph in Egypt, Moses and the Ten Commandments, Solomon, and Samson are all re-told in simple, straightforward Latin.
The pdf of this text can be found on google books
http://books.google.com/books?id=8L8DAAAAQAAJ
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Disc: $7.97 Ora Maritima is an beginner's story in easy Latin, by E. Sonnenschein, and read by Molendinarius (Evan Millner) in the restored classical pronunciation of Latin. The text of this audiobook can be read online at archive.org.
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Disc: $7.97 Jared Scudder's Latin Reader (Part One) provides a mix of simple stories from Roman history and mythology, aimed at the beginning student of Latin. These stories also provide useful consolidation for more advanced students. They are read here in the restored classical pronunciation of Latin by Evan Millner.
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Disc: $7.97 In the early 1500's Mathurin Corderius composed a series of scripted conversations in Latin, for teaching essential Latin in schools, under the title Colloquiorum scholasticorum libri quatuor.
These colloquia became very famous, and remained in active use in the schoolroom, right through to the early 1800's. The conversations centre for the most part around school life and daily domestic affairs, providing a veritable window into the past.
Alexander's edition of selections from Corderius was used to make these recordings - this text can be found on google books as a free pdf at the following url:
http://books.google.com/books?id=q0kuAAAAYAAJ
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Disc: $7.97 This English language audio book covers chapters 1 - 30 of Book 1 of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War. It follows the original text as closely as possible - rendering as much of the original Latin structure and sentence patterns into English as possible, with minimal changes - with a very literal translation that even duplicates, to the extent allowed by English, the tense patterns of the Latin.
As such, it is an ideal introduction to reading the text in the original Latin. As a text, it gives a direct and clear insight into the mind of one of the world's greatest generals, who also might fairly lay claim to the title of the world's first blogger.
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