Latin Advanced Level

Latin Summer School

10 Days of Intensive Latin – Advanced Level

Online: 29 June – 10 July 2026
In person: 10 – 21 August 2026

⏳ Serious Latin. Real texts. Rapid progress in just 10 days.

This course is designed for students who have completed Beginners and Intermediate Latin and are ready to engage deeply with Latin literature from every age and genre. You will refine your reading skills, sharpen your grammatical insight, and gain confidence handling complex Latin prose and poetry.

During this intensive course, you will study:

  • Accusative with the infinitive in indirect discourse and object sentences

  • Gerund, gerundive, and the participle of passive necessity

  • Conditional sentences (if … then …)

  • The limited but important sequence of tenses and modal attraction

  • Verbs of doubting, fearing, and prohibiting

  • Oblique complements of verbs and their passive constructions

  • Specific and nuanced uses of the dative, genitive, and ablative

You will also gain structured overviews of:

  • 14 ways to express purpose

  • 10 uses of the relative pronoun

  • Positive and negative commands

All instruction follows the renowned Reginald Foster Method, enabling students to read demanding Latin texts with clarity, confidence, and enjoyment—without rote memorisation or mechanical drills.

🕘 Hours of instruction:
Daily sessions last 3 hours, with a break.
Online class times will be confirmed by 3 June to accommodate participants’ locations and will take place in the UK afternoon.

💷 Fee: £395 (30 hours of expert tuition)

⚠️ Places are strictly limited and in high demand.
A small deposit secures your place.

A fuller description of the course is available here.
Contact Clare, the Registrar at this linked email address

Text Book: Ossa Latinitatis Sola Ad Mentem Reginaldi Rationemque

Required book: Simpson, D.P. – ‘Cassell’s Latin Dictionary’ – (Macmillan, New York 1959) or equivalent, including a small English to Latin section.

Our tutors teach online or in person, privately or in a group (minimum numbers required)

Contact us by email: info@benedictine-institute.org

OR contact us
by post:  74, Castlebar Road, Ealing, London W5 2DD
by telephone:  +44 (0) 20 8194 2320

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Students wishing more instruction are encouraged to enrol also in Reading Plautus.  A discount is offered when enrolling with us in both courses.