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 »