Duolingo, the popular free language learning website and app, has launched a Latin course to help its users say "salve" to Latin fluency. "Latin has long been regarded as a 'dead, read' language that ...

As a sixth form student at Belfast Royal Academy, I can still remember some of the things that drew me to the school in the first place. These included the excellent standard of teaching, the wide ...

“The Roman Church has special obligations towards Latin, the splendid language of ancient Rome, and she must manifest them whenever the occasion presents itself” (Dominicae Cenae, 10). Teaching Latin ...

Latin lives! The language of Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, St. Jerome, and countless other great authors is alive and well in the modern world. It lives in the Romance languages, which are the lineal ...

Seventh grade students at Ottoson Middle School participated in gladiator battles with cardboard swords during Latin class and used Latin cheers and phrases. (Photo by Nathan Klima for The Boston ...

Researchers found that in teaching English learners -- students who aren't fluent in English and often come from homes where a language other than English is spoken -- the Latin roots of words helped ...

Conjugating verbs, memorizing vocabulary words and putting verbs in the present tense may not sound like an unusual activity for fourth-graders, but when it’s done in Latin – that’s specialis, or ...

ROGERS — Children in red and blue polo shirts squeezed onto the bleachers for a modern spelling bee in a classic language Thursday night. Third-, fourth- and fifth-graders from Providence Classical ...

THE debate on whether Latin should be brought back into the approved school curriculum has taken me back some 70 years to my study of the “dead language”. Latin is far from buried, used as it is in ...