TWO IMMERSION WORKSHOPS FOR LATIN SPEAKERS WILL BE OFFERED ONLINE BY OUR SOCIETY IN 2025

I. Latine loqui incipiamus!, a workshop designed for people with little or no experience with Latin as a language for conversational communication, will take place ONLINE from 23 June to 26 June in 2025.

This Conventiculum will be aimed at tirones - namely people with very little or no experience with Latin as a spoken and communicative language. That said, we add that everyone who considers participating even in the group of 'tirones' should have at least a passive knowledge of Latin, and understand the fundamental parts of Latin grammar and morphology. This is not (and, in such a short space of time, cannot be) a seminar designed to teach the first principles of the Latin language.

THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE

Everyone who wishes to enroll in Latine loqui incipiamus! should ensure that their registration fee reaches us by 15 May 2025 at the very latest. We hope interested people will register as soon as possible. These events fill up quickly, and the earlier an application is sent, the more likely it will reach us while there are free spaces. We cannot admit more than 30 people into this Conventiculum.

THE REGISTRATION FEE

The registration fee for Latine loqui incipiamus! will be $120 per person. Please note that this fee, once it has been deposited in the account for Humanitas, will not be refundable. This is an administrative necessity, and we ask all people who contemplate registration to keep this condition in mind.

All people interested in taking part in Latine loqui incipiamus! should write at their earliest convenience to Terence Tunberg at the following email address: terence.tunberg@gmail.com.

II. Conventiculum aestivum or summer conventiculum will take place ONLINE from 29 July to 4 August in 2025.

Our Conventiculum aestivum or Summer Conventiculum will be designed for both tirones and peritiores. The tirones, as we have explained above, even if entirely without experience in communicative and spoken Latin, need to have at least a passive knowledge of Latin, and understand the fundamental parts of Latin grammar and morphology.

THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE

Everyone who wishes to enroll in the Conventiculum aestivum should ensure that their registration fee reaches us by 1 June 2025 at the very latest. We hope interested people will register as soon as possible. These events fill up quickly, and the earlier an application is sent, the more likely it will reach us while there are free spaces. We cannot admit more than 35 people into the Conventiculum aestivum.

THE REGISTRATION FEE

The registration fee for the Conventiculum aestivum will be $180 per person. Please note that this fee, once it has been deposited in the account for Humanitas, will not be refundable. This is an administrative necessity, and we ask all people who contemplate registration to keep this condition in mind.

All people interested in taking part in the Conventiculum aestivum should write at their earliest convenience to Terence Tunberg at the following email address: terence.tunberg@gmail.com

ABOUT OUR CONVENTICULA

Our workshops have become internationally known for providing a stimulating occasion in which participants can communicate with each other for an extended period of time in an all-Latin environment, speaking and hearing no language but Latin. These events are specifically designed for those who want to acclimatize themselves to the active use of Latin.

We also invite participants who are already experienced in the active use of Latin. It is our intention that our conventicula will provide such participants with a pleasant opportunity to practice or enhance their skills in spoken and written Latin, and meet like-minded others.

Our conventicula are NOT designed for people who are still learning essential Latin grammar. All participants should be able to read unadapted Latin texts (even if they need to consult a dictionary fairly often), and should feel reasonably secure in their knowledge of basic morphology and syntax. The purpose of our seminars is to add an active dimension to the experience of those who already possess a certain passive knowledge of Latin. These seminars should be especially valuable for any cultivator of the Latin language, who wishes to gain some ability to express her or himself ex-tempore in correct Latin on many different subjects. Not only teachers, who may wish to develop their ability use Latin actively and extempore, so they can enliven the learning experience for students and augment whatever teaching strategies they prefer to employ, but anyone at all devoted to Latin, such as professors, graduate students, and those who read Latin for personal enrichment, can benefit from our seminars, which are exclusively aimed at helping those who take part to acquire a more instinctive command of the Latin language. Having acquired such a command of Latin a person can usually understand Latin writings more directly and easily, without being compelled so often to translate and to think in another language.

Sessions will be aimed at developing ability in speaking Latin, understanding others speaking Latin, reading, understanding, and explaining Latin texts in Latin. There will also be some writing in Latin. Participants will be involved in intensive activity each day from morning until early evening (with breaks for lunch, etc., of course). Themes for discussion will involve books and literature, but discussions will also be devoted to questions pertaining to every-day life.

A note for the benefit of all interested in participating: in all of our conventicula sessions on the first day will begin in the morning (according to eastern standard time in North America) and continue, separated by several rest-periods, until the late afternoon.

All of our conventicula in 2025 will be conducted online via internet with entirely real-time interaction, so that people from widely separated regions can, without long distance travel, come together in the electronic 'theatrum' we will choose (such as the conferencing system offered by ZOOM) and benefit from real and face to face Latin conversation.