Busby's Introduction to Latin in Audio

A new online audio book for learning Latin from The Latinum Institute

Published online on 15th October 2019

Rev. Dr Richard Busby was born on 22 September 1606 and died on 6 April 1695. He  served as head master of Westminster School for more than fifty-five years. 

Reverend Busby is buried beneath the black and white marble pavement of the choir of Westminster Abbey, which he gifted to the abbey in 1677. 

His English Introduction to Latin has been made into an audiobook by Latinum.

Busby's Introduction to Latin 1 

 Busby's Introduction to Latin 2  

 Busby's Introduction to Latin 3  

 Busby's Introduction to Latin 4 

 Busby's Introduction to Latin 5 

 Busby's Introduction to Latin 6 

 Busby's Introduction to Latin 7 

 Busby's Introduction to Latin 8  

 Busby's Introduction to Latin 9  

 Busby's Introduction to Latin 1 0 

Busby's Syntax 1 

 Busby's Syntax 2 

 Busby's Syntax 3 

 Busby's Syntax 4 

 Busby's Syntax 5 

 Busby's Syntax 6  

 Busby's Syntax 7  

 Busby's Syntax 8 

 Busby's Syntax 9 

 Busby's Syntax 10  

 Busby's Syntax 11  

 Busby's Syntax 12  

Busby's Syntax 13 

Busby's Introduction to Latin Part One ZIP 

Busby's Introduction to Latin Part Two ZIP 

 Russel Barker wrote a memoir, which is available on archive.org.  

He was famous for his liberal use of corporal punishment to discipline the boys. His pupils included the poet John Dryden, architect Christopher Wren, and scientist Robert Hooke.

Among the more illustrious of his pupils were Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke, Robert South, John Dryden, John Locke, Matthew Prior, Thomas Millington and Francis Atterbury.

Richard Busby with pupil

John Riley (1646 - 1691).

Oil on Canvas

124.5 x 99.1 cms

Christ Church College

Oxford University

Image from Art UK

Latinum Latin Course

Welcome to the Latinum Institute


The Latinum Institute offers a complete Latin Language Audio Course for self-study, including Adler's Practical Grammar of the Latin Language.

You will find everything you need here to study to an advanced level. There is no need to even buy a single textbook, if you are prepared to use digital books. Links to online free textbooks are provided, where these are available. The audio course materials are designed to be 'stand-alone', and can be used without sitting down in front of a book. You can study on the go, in your car, out walking or running, or while doing household chores. 

 The Language Catalogues

• The Latin Streaming Catalogue
• The Latin Download ZIP file Catalogue
• The Greek Streaming Catalogue
• The Greek Download ZIP file Catalogue
• The Aramaic and Hebrew Catalogue
  

Structure

 The Adler Audio Course is structured in the following way:
Each of the 97 lessons is in 3 parts: ( except for the first four lessons, which follow a slightly different arrangement)

• Grammar and syntax with extensive paradigms added to the text. The grammar is very detailed, with large numbers of additional paradigms and useful memory clues. Vocabulary is presented in advance of every lesson.
• Model question-answer conversations in Latin-English-Latin. Here you consolidate your vocabulary, and learn the grammatical structures in use.
• Slow repetition and fast repetition of the conversational material in Latin only, for review.

 

Supplements to Adler

In addition to the Adler Online Audio Course, a suite of supplementary study materials specifically for Adler's course have been created: 

• Adler's Textbook is available for free on Google Books here.
• The Dictata (Exercises) are free on Google Books is here
• The Dictata (Exercises) transcription by Carolus Raeticus is here
• ANKI flashcards for Adler by Carolus Raeticus are here
• Clozemaster Games by Adam Bushashia for learning the vocabulary for Adler in the context of sentences of the exercises are here

 Suggested Curriculum for using the supporting course materials 

Read reviews of Latinum at Trust Pilot

    

All the Latin audio here is carefully read in restored classical pronunciation. Evan der Millner's pronunciation of Latin has been extensively peer reviewed, and conforms to the academic gold standard - W S Allen's 'Vox Latina', Sturtevant, and the Cambridge Philological Society guidelines. Greek pronunciation used on the course follows a form of reconstructed Koine, approximating the way Greek may have sounded during era of the late Roman republic.. 

Mastery

The Latinum Institute offers you the tools to master Latin and Greek. To this end, textbooks that were written for teaching Latin as a ‘workhorse’ language are used – including parts of Comenius‘ famous 17th century course, Adler‘s Practical Grammar, Kontopoulos' Greek Course, and extensive supplementary materials. 

You can follow the curriculum broadly outlined here – but feel free to use the materials in any order. For Latin, you are encouraged to begin working with Adler and Comenius. 

Levels

The Latinum Institute has subscribers at all learning levels - complete beginners, those wanting to brush up on old Latin, Greek or Hebrew (and Aramaic) and advanced students at university level. Several Latin teachers also subscribe to The Latinum Institute, and use the materials for professional development. There is also an audio-visual component to help beginners. 

Videos and playlists on Latinum's extensive Latin collection YouTube Channel. Your membership subscription here also supports Latinum's You Tube channel. This includes three introductory audio-visual Latin courses.

STREAMING CATALOGUE: Streaming $8 /month including Adler, Aesop's Fables, Bennett, Latin Bible, Busching, Caesar, Holy Mass, Catullus, Chickering, Coleridge, Collar, Comenius, Corderius, D'Ooge, Erasmus, Eutropius, Fay, Fenton, L'Homond, Maxey, Nepos, Nutting, Pexenfelder, Reed, Reynolds, Sonnenschein, Stanford and Scott ,Virgil, and more

DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE:Streaming + Download $15 /month including Adler's complete Latin Audio Course (191 hours), Book of Psalms, Caesar Reading Book, Caesar Grammar Course, Taylor's Caesar, Coleridge, Comenius Vestibulum, Comenius Orbis Pictus, Der Kleine Lateiner, Eutropius, Nepos, D'Ooge Latin Course, D'Ooge Colloquia, L'Homond Historiae Sacrae, Materia Medica, Maxey's Cornelia, Maxey's New Latin Primer, Pexenfelder, Psalms, Puer Romanus, Sanford and Scott, Dictionary in Audio, Underwood's Latin Course, and more.

Latin

Welcome to the Latinum Institute


The Latinum Institute offers a complete Latin Language Audio Course for self-study, including Adler's Practical Grammar of the Latin Language.

You will find everything you need here to study to an advanced level. There is no need to even buy a single textbook, if you are prepared to use digital books. Links to online free textbooks are provided, where these are available. The audio course materials are designed to be 'stand-alone', and can be used without sitting down in front of a book. You can study on the go, in your car, out walking or running, or while doing household chores. 

 The Language Catalogues

• The Latin Streaming Catalogue
• The Latin Download ZIP file Catalogue
• The Greek Streaming Catalogue
• The Greek Download ZIP file Catalogue
• The Aramaic and Hebrew Catalogue
  

Structure

 The Adler Audio Course is structured in the following way:
Each of the 97 lessons is in 3 parts: ( except for the first four lessons, which follow a slightly different arrangement)

• Grammar and syntax with extensive paradigms added to the text. The grammar is very detailed, with large numbers of additional paradigms and useful memory clues. Vocabulary is presented in advance of every lesson.
• Model question-answer conversations in Latin-English-Latin. Here you consolidate your vocabulary, and learn the grammatical structures in use.
• Slow repetition and fast repetition of the conversational material in Latin only, for review.

 

Supplements to Adler

In addition to the Adler Online Audio Course, a suite of supplementary study materials specifically for Adler's course have been created: 

• Adler's Textbook is available for free on Google Books here.
• The Dictata (Exercises) are free on Google Books is here
• The Dictata (Exercises) transcription by Carolus Raeticus is here
• ANKI flashcards for Adler by Carolus Raeticus are here
• Clozemaster Games by Adam Bushashia for learning the vocabulary for Adler in the context of sentences of the exercises are here

 Suggested Curriculum for using the supporting course materials 

Read reviews of Latinum at Trust Pilot

    

All the Latin audio here is carefully read in restored classical pronunciation. Evan der Millner's pronunciation of Latin has been extensively peer reviewed, and conforms to the academic gold standard - W S Allen's 'Vox Latina', Sturtevant, and the Cambridge Philological Society guidelines. Greek pronunciation used on the course follows a form of reconstructed Koine, approximating the way Greek may have sounded during era of the late Roman republic.. 

Mastery

The Latinum Institute offers you the tools to master Latin and Greek. To this end, textbooks that were written for teaching Latin as a ‘workhorse’ language are used – including parts of Comenius‘ famous 17th century course, Adler‘s Practical Grammar, Kontopoulos' Greek Course, and extensive supplementary materials. 

You can follow the curriculum broadly outlined here – but feel free to use the materials in any order. For Latin, you are encouraged to begin working with Adler and Comenius. 

Levels

The Latinum Institute has subscribers at all learning levels - complete beginners, those wanting to brush up on old Latin, Greek or Hebrew (and Aramaic) and advanced students at university level. Several Latin teachers also subscribe to The Latinum Institute, and use the materials for professional development. There is also an audio-visual component to help beginners. 

Videos and playlists on Latinum's extensive Latin collection YouTube Channel. Your membership subscription here also supports Latinum's You Tube channel. This includes three introductory audio-visual Latin courses.

STREAMING CATALOGUE: Streaming $8 /month including Adler, Aesop's Fables, Bennett, Latin Bible, Busching, Caesar, Holy Mass, Catullus, Chickering, Coleridge, Collar, Comenius, Corderius, D'Ooge, Erasmus, Eutropius, Fay, Fenton, L'Homond, Maxey, Nepos, Nutting, Pexenfelder, Reed, Reynolds, Sonnenschein, Stanford and Scott ,Virgil, and more

DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE:Streaming + Download $15 /month including Adler's complete Latin Audio Course (191 hours), Book of Psalms, Caesar Reading Book, Caesar Grammar Course, Taylor's Caesar, Coleridge, Comenius Vestibulum, Comenius Orbis Pictus, Der Kleine Lateiner, Eutropius, Nepos, D'Ooge Latin Course, D'Ooge Colloquia, L'Homond Historiae Sacrae, Materia Medica, Maxey's Cornelia, Maxey's New Latin Primer, Pexenfelder, Psalms, Puer Romanus, Sanford and Scott, Dictionary in Audio, Underwood's Latin Course, and more.

Latin Vocabulary Tests with Clozemaster

Adam Bushashia has written to me, telling me all about the wonderful Latin study resource using Clozemaster he created.

Adam has constructed interactive study games that use the material in Adler's Practical Grammar of the Latin Language, to help you learn Latin online.

These are an excellent study tool to use alongside the Adler Latin Course.

This collection Adam created uses the material from here, the .txt version of  Adler's Practical Grammar of the Latin Language  created by Carolus Raeticus, and the associated Anki study set of the exercises.

 https://www.clozemaster.com/languages/lat-eng/collections/278e81d9-2972-4f08-993c-2d8474d74e6f 

How do the Cloze games work?

The games give a Latin sentence, with the corresponding English beneath. A word is missing in the Latin sentence. You can select multiple choice to select the missing word, or choose text input, to type in what you think the missing word may be.

Adam tells me he has created over 7,000 Cloze games in this series - more than enough to keep you very busy; I have had a look at them, and think they would make an excellent revision tool for learning and revising your Latin.

Learn Latin Online with Latinum

The Latinum Institute has produced a student level audio book of Corderius' famous scripted conversations, knows as the 'Colloquies'.

This text was one of the most frequently studied Latin workbooks for over 300 years. Teachers and students stopped using it when the craze for 'authentic' Latin swept the Latin teaching world in the mid 1800's. All 'artificial' Latin was thrown out of the schoolroom.

The result of this was a rapid and speedy decline in student fluency and ability in Latin, as no texts suitable for beginners have come down to us from Roman times; all the works we have are literary.

The 'fake' Latin that these schoolmasters and academicians found so objectionable were written as easy-access texts for beginners. The irony is that the renaissance teachers who created these texts, were deliberately trying to revive and create more materials that were similar to the few surviving student textbooks that have come down to us from ancient times, the so-called Hermeneumata.

These texts were simple dialogues and scenarios from day to day life, in simple Latin, aimed at very young students.

Corderius' dialogues are modelled after this fashion, and comprise scripted dialogues on a number of topics.

The Latinum Institute's audio version has these read in Latin and English phrase by phrase, and then a separate Latin only version.

Two editions of the text have been recorded, each one has subtle differences in idiom.

The Latinum Institute also offers a complete Latin Audio Course, the Adler Course.

Learn Latin Online with The Latinum Institute

Latinum offers a complete, comprehensive online Latin course, suitable for self study.

Latinum uses Patreon to distribute its materials.

The course is composed of multiple components - a complete audio course, based on Adler's Practical grammar of the Latin Language.

In addition, the course provides a large amount of material designed to help you increase your vocabulary in an enjoyable way.

An example of this is the fables of Aesop, read in Latin phrase by phrase in alternating English and Latin, followed by a repetition of the fable in Latin only. This system is used for a number of useful texts, including works by Comenius and Corderius, which are designed to introduce you to basic conversational patterns of speech and a useful range of basic vocabulary.

You can find the Latinum course by visiting http://latinum.org.uk

Latinum hosts its audio materials at Patreon.