Biduum Coloratanum 2019SALVI proudly presents Biduum Coloratanum, a full-immersion Latin weekend workshop. A restorative three-day event at the Franciscan Retreat Center in Colorado Springs, this Biduum allows participants to experience a mini-Rusticatio in the foothills of the Rockies: a communal atmosphere with about thirty other Latin speakers in a scenic settling, enjoying reading and conversation,... Read more »
SALVI will be present at ACL’s Centennial Institute this June in New York City at the Hilton Midtown. John Young will be leading a tour in Latin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Justin Bailey, Keith Toda, and John Young will be presenting a panel entitled “How To Put Latin In the Ears of Your Students... Read more »
Rusticatio Tironum is a full-immersion Latin workshop offering high-energy conversation exercises and readings from Latin literature. In a supportive, intimidation-free environment, Rusticatio Tironum participants live together for seven days while they speak, read, cook and relax—all while communicating entirely in Latin. Through a variety of exchanges, including instructional sessions, a common kitchen, daily shared tasks, downtime, and excellent... Read more »
Pedagogy Rusticatio 2019: Forming the Whole Reader How can we design environments and tasks that foster—from day one—the kinds of implicit knowledge required for reading Latin texts, without neglecting the explicit knowledge that may serve students in future programs? How can we hone teaching skills and practices that maximize students’ linguistic and literary development in... Read more »
Rusticatio Omnibus is a full-immersion Latin workshop offering high-energy conversation exercises and readings from Latin literature in a supportive, intimidation-free environment.Rusticatio Omnibus is appropriate for both beginning and intermediate speakers. First-time Latin speakers who already know the language will find the activities both enjoyable and appropriately challenging. For more experienced, intermediate-level speakers the environment offers the opportunity to... Read more »
SALVI’s rusticationes seek to combine high-level language learning with comfortable, secluded settings which stimulate curiosity, camaraderie, and (ultimately) language acquisition. The seclusion of the site offers the opportunity to experience a complete immersion in the Latin language – once the event begins, participants will be exposed to twenty-four hours a day of Latin. The beauty of the... Read more »
RUSTICATIO REPETITORUM is a new event in 2019, offered to previous Latin immersion event staff members as a means of advancing their extempore presentational and interpersonal speaking skills. Our staffers have been so generous with their time, talents, and energies in advancing the Latinity of others, that SALVI would like to extend to them an opportunity... Read more »
Biduum Coloratanum, a full-immersion Latin weekend workshop in Fort Collins, Colorado. We will enjoy exclusive use of the Solarium boutique hotel with its soaring tropical greenhouse atrium, well appointed rooms, and evenings spent around a firepit in the teepee out back. Participants will enjoy reading and conversing in Latin, a variety of classroom activities –... Read more »
SALVI and the Department of Classics at Cornell University in Ithaca invite you to Biduum Cornellianum, three days of Latin immersion for all levels of experience.Cornell has teamed up with SALVI to offer an opportunity for Latinists and educators in the region and beyond to speak, hear, and practice Latin, as well as to learn about using... Read more »
SALVI invites you to Biduum Graecum, otherwise known as Ὁμιλία ἑλληνιζόντων, a full-immersion Greek weekend for all levels of experience. Situated in the home of SALVI’s Rusticatio Virginiana, Claymont in West Virginia, participants can enjoy the beauty of nature and the quiet seclusion in a fully (Ancient) Greek oasis.Ὁμιλία ἑλληνιζόντων will be a weekend in the tradition... Read more »