You might have noticed there’s a certain Latin flavour around here that has nothing to do with salsa. As Roman life makes one of the “Three-R” pillars of this blog (Reading, Writing, and Romans), this also seeps in to the language.
Now, I’m the first to admit my Latin is atrocious, but that doesn’t mean I don’t find Latin fun (on the occasion I can make sense of it). So here are a few non-stuffy resources to learn Latin — including the use of Lego!
legonium.com
The above is made by Legonium , as part of his recent series for teaching basic Latin. He puts up mini-lessons here which are quite fun, and there are free downloads to help. For more advanced readers, there’s also plenty more on the site from Cicero to Star Wars .
I first came across Legonium on Twitter ( @tutubuslatinus ), where he’s got quite a fun feed. It’s always amusing to see a picture of a Lego roadrunner and coyote or a little funky poem and a tweet-sized bite of Latin, and trying (reasonably successfully) to decipher it for myself.
While you’re on that platform, there are also Latinitium and The Latin Programme , if you want to learn random factoids about Latin. Between those, a few academics, and some selective curating I basically managed to train their algorithm to immerse me in archaeology, architecture, and book-memes. I did pretty much the same on Instagram (which I
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