The Advent season hasn't started just yet, but I couldn't wait 😊 In the latest blog post I'm presenting one of my favourite Advent hymns, "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel."

The post includes:

* a brief explanation of the biblical references,
* vocabulary exercises for ESL/EFL students,
* a separate set of vocabulary worksheets designed for Latin language learners, based on "Veni, veni, Emmanuel" - the original Latin text of the hymn,
* and more!

https://grammaticus.blog/2025/11/25/veni-emmanuel/

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An analysis of Catullus 46 - a delightful 1st century BC Latin poem about the arrival of spring and the excitement of travel.

If your Latin is a bit rusty or you happen to be a Latin learner, below the poem you’ll find a detailed, verse-by-verse word analysis, along with an English translation.

At the very end of the post there are a few links to additional resources on Catullus, and the context of this particular poem.

https://grammaticus.blog/2025/04/30/catullus-46/

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I got chatting with my mother about Latin over lunch, and she told me that she didn't think that the way we learn Latin accurately reflects the way it was used - if it was ever spoken by the people in the street.

And we could both be wrong here, but I think she's right. Because what I've noticed is that it's terribly clunky. For example, they have declensions and so on to indicate whether there is more than one person involved, and then they include "sunt" (which translates as "they are.") in the sentence as well. The sunt is totally unnecessary.

Which makes me wonder - was there a High Latin and a Low Latin, and all we know about is High Latin?

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