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Vita Nostra
Subsidia ad Colloquia Latina, vol. I
by
Stephen A. Berard
Vita Nostra is a graded manual for developing Latin conversational skills and can be used in concert with any introductory Latin
grammar text. Thematized chapters contain a dialog based on modern daily life, questions on the dialog, conversation-starting activities,
encyclopedic lists of vocabulary relevant to the chapter’s theme, and a special section on idioms and proverbs.
Although Vita Nostra was originally developed for use in college courses and spoken-Latin seminars for the general public, many middleand high-school teachers currently use Vita Nostra as a valuable resource. Already experienced Latinists can jump-start their speaking
skills with Vita Nostra.
Table of Contents
SALUTATIONES VALEDICTIONESQUE
RES IN CONCLAVI SCHOLARI
I. DOMICILIA NOSTRA
SERMO I: UBI HABITAS TU?
Lexicon Generale
Aliquot Adiectiva ad Colores Pertinentia
Alia Vocabula ad Domicilia et Supellectilem Describenda
Locutiones, Idiomata, Proverbia
II. QUAE DOMI FACIMUS?
SERMO II: DIE SATURNI MANE
Lexicon Generale
Alia Vocabula ad Occupationes Domesticas et Oblectamenta Pertinentia
Alia Vocabula ad Opera Domestica Pertinentia
Locutiones, Idiomata, Proverbia
III. QUAE FORIS FACIMUS?
SERMO III: APUD MUNERUM NUNDINAS
Lexicon Generale
Alia Vocabula ad Munera Pertinentia
Locutiones, Idiomata, Proverbia
IV. QUAE FACIT ARGENTARIUS?
SERMO IV: APUD TRIBUNAL POPULARE
Lexicon Generale
Aliae Locutiones de Muneribus (sive Quaestus Generibus Variis)
Locutiones, Idiomata, Proverbia
V. QUAE OTIOSUS FACIS?
SERMO V.I: COLLOQUIUM INTERROGATORIUM
Lexicon Generale
Interrogationes Viginti ad Colloquia Interrogatoria Utiles
SERMO V.II: COLLOQUIUM INTERROGATORIUM GREGALE
Locutiones, Idiomata, Proverbia
For sample pages, visit
boreoccidentales.com/latine/cataracta/auctore-berard/vita_nostra/
Product details
Cataracta Publications, 2014
Published as a PDF in various versions since 2003.
Latin-English edition
ISBN 978-0-9910049-1-1
130 pages (approx.)
Latin-Latin edition
ISBN 978-0-9910049-2-8
130 pages (approx.)
Format: Paperback and PDF
Size: 8.25 x 10.5 inches (pbk.)
For sample pages, visit boreoccidentales.com/
latine/cataracta/auctore-berard/vita_nostra/
Subject headings
Latin language—Conversation and phrase
books. Latin language, Colloquial.
Contact information
Cataracta Publications
P.O. Box 3797
Wenatchee, WA 98807-3797 USA
[email protected]
Stephen A. Berard graduated from the University of California (Los Angeles) with a BA in Classics and
received an MA in Latin and a C.Phil. in Classics from the University of California (Berkeley). At the Monterey
Institute of International Studies, he completed an MA in German Studies (“Südländische Musik im
dichterischen Werk E.T.A. Hoffmanns”) and received a Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics from the University of
Massachusetts (Amherst) ("Infinitive Usage in Biblical Gothic”). Since 1989, Berard has been a professor of
World Languages at Wenatchee Valley College in Wenatchee, Washington, where he teaches Spanish,
German and Latin (as a spoken language). He directs the Conventiculum Vasintoniense, Septimana
Californiana (one of SALVI’s annual Spoken-Latin conferences) and the Circulus Seattlensis. For more
information about Stephen Berard, his writing and his activities, please visit boreoccidentales.com.