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Little Children Learning Latin. – Latin comes to life online with the Tar Heel Reader.

A new wave of publishing is currently sweeping the Latin world – but these are not high works of literature, Vergil and Cicero, but beginning illustrated children’s readers, with titles like “Colours” and “ Who is that over there?”.

The surge has been made possible by a new interactive website, called the Tar Heel Reader, developed by Gary Bishop , at the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill.

The re… Continue

Here is what I wrote on the subject of children's books in Latin, in December 2008 - before I had discovered the Tar Heel Reader.
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Following on a post by Laura Gibbs posted on Latinteach, about reading material in Latin, and comprehensible input, I have this to add:

One thing we need, to promote and advance Latin, are a large number of very basic childrens books, in Latin. Not enough of these exist. Books as basic as those produced for 2 and 3 year olds,… Continue

WEB 2.0 and Latin A response to Brian Appleyard’s opinion piece in "The Times" 18 May 2009, called “Break free of this world wide delusion The idea that the web is revolutionising our lives is not only wrong, but dangerous “ By Evan Millner,
Sent this to 'The Times' - if they publish it, well and good. If not, here it is:
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Web 2.0 is leading to a massive resurgence in Latin across the globe: A few months ago, an interview with Evan Millner was published in… Continue