Ossa Ostensa

Ossa Ostensa is the world's first comprehensive example of how to teach and learn the Latin language using the unique teaching system of the internationally recognized authority Reginald Foster. Laura Pooley – prize-winning graduate of the University of Oxford and currently a supervisor at the University of Cambridge, brings to life the year she spent in Rome studying Latin with Reginaldus. His inspiring and transformative method of teaching combines with Laura's twenty years of teaching experience to produce concise and crystal-clear explanations of the language. The three 'experiences' of Latin: beginners, intermediates and advanced, are divided between three user-friendly workbooks. Each workbook comprises around thirty lessons, where the language is presented in hand-out form requiring very little modification by prospective teachers. Each language area is then illustrated by translated reading examples. After each lesson, Laura provides translation practice targeted to the taught content. These Latin passages are divided into Classical and Post-Classical literature, to appeal to the interests of all Latin students. Not only that, but each passage is accompanied by teaching questions and translation hints, the mainstay of Reginaldus' classroom persona and pedagogy so famously encapsulated in his Ludi. Students therefore can exercise recent language content and develop deep and spontaneous fluency in the Latin language. In Book 3 of the Ossa Ostensa series, you will meet all the final elements of Reginaldus' formal teaching. These include a comprehensive review of noun case uses, verbs of fearing and doubting, summaries of expressing purpose and commands and the complexities of indirect discourse. After this book you will have met pretty much anything Latin can throw at you, and the life-long enjoyment can really begin!

Laura Pooley currently supervises in Classics at the University of Cambridge. She spent a transformative year in Rome studying Latin under Reginald Foster and shares this training and experience with learners from beginner to advanced level both online and at the Benedictine Institute in London.