The Immediate Mouth of Cicero in His Letters consists of two books. An audio book presents the integral Latin and English texts of 51 letters Cicero wrote to family and close associates all recited by Reginald Foster. A printed book presents the teaching method of Reginald exemplified by 160 imagined dialogues between a teacher and students working with original thoughts of Cicero to learn the Latin language from the first encounter.
This companion volume to The Bones' Meats Abundant analyses how Cicero expressed himself in the Latin of these same 51 letters, with cross references to fuller explanations in The Mere Bones of Latin.
Audio book
LISTEN to Cicero writing to family and close associates recited by Reginald Foster who embodies that living voice of the master Latinist. READ along while listening and RECITE together with the audio. CONSULT the English text of our translations.
Printed book
LEARN from the first encounter with the Latin language by reading from Cicero's letters and COMPLETE your understanding through regular readings. Teach the Latin language using excerpts from Cicero's letters from the first day. Understand how Reginald taught the Latin language using solid, unmodified, original Latin texts. Learn to teach from Reginald.
Reginaldus Thomas Foster (1939-2020) was an American Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. He worked in the ""Latin Letters"" section of the Secretariat of State in the Vatican and was the Papal Latinist from 1969-2009.
Daniel Patricius McCarthy, a student of Foster's, is a monk at St. Benedict's Abbey in Atchison, Kansas, and teaches Latin in London and Rome.
