Seventh grade students at Ottoson Middle School participated in gladiator battles with cardboard swords during Latin class and used Latin cheers and phrases. (Photo by Nathan Klima for The Boston ...

In the basement of a nursing home in Milwaukee, the world's best Latin lessons are given for free. That's where Father Reginald Foster, a priest who lacks patience, gives his lessons. He's managed to ...

I began learning Latin six years ago, as I was approaching the age of 60. My baffled friends understood making the effort to learn a language that would facilitate foreign travel—French, Italian, even ...

Latin is a classical language and also the Indo-European Language. Earlier, it was spoken in the Tiber areas of Rome, but once the Roman Republic came into power, the language started to dominate: ...

Duolingo, the popular free language learning website and app, has launched a Latin course to help its users say "salve" to Latin fluency. "Latin has long been regarded as a 'dead, read' language that ...

Interview conducted by Aneta Pavlenko. An avid reader of language learning memoirs, I was surprised and thrilled when I came across a book that features two unlikely protagonists—a 60-year old woman ...

I took four years of Spanish in high school. Today, I’m only good for “Hola!” and, “Dónde está el baño?” (At least I’m covered where friendliness and a very basic human need are concerned.) And that’s ...

VATICAN CITY-- When Msgr. Daniel B. Gallagher was a microbiology major at the University of Michigan, his growing curiosity about the "deep questions" led the pre-med student to take philosophy and ...

Latin might seem like an obscure, inscrutable language for naming plants. But it can open up the botanical world in ways you can’t imagine. By Margaret Roach The plants are trying to tell us something ...