Fan fiction, Minecraft and Taylor Swift lyrics are hardly the stuff of traditional Latin lessons. They are, however, part of an expanding repertoire that teachers are successfully drawing on to deepen ...

Pope Francis has adorned the cover of Time, Rolling Stone, and even The Advocate, a magazine for gay news. World leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, have lined up to praise him. The pope’s ...

Latin is considered by many to be a dead language, but not by Marie Davis. Davis, who teaches Latin to children at Daniels Run Elementary School in Fairfax City, is trying to develop students' skills ...

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 ...

If you have always felt that you’re not as tweedy and snooty as you could be because your school didn’t offer Latin, soon you’ll be able to “veni vidi vici” with the best Etonians thanks to Duolingo.

These days, the first lesson of high school Latin is often to answer the question: why Latin? The language peaked in the era of Roman gladiators and slowly faded throughout the Middle Ages. Today, 800 ...

When Ivan Flores was a child living in Mexico City, his mom took him to festivals where he said, “There was always dancing.” She also took him to a Tae Kwon Do class, where Latin dancing just happened ...