From the first encounter with the Latin language to it full
presentation, the objective of Ossa Latinitatis Sola is to get people
into immediate contact with and understanding of genuine Latin authors,
and for these encounters to grow into a love and use of the entire
language in all its literary types and periods of time and authors of
the past 2,300 years.
By eliminating terminology and complicated introductions to the
language, we emphasize what things mean, not what they are called, how
the language functions, not artificial rules, so that people may have
immediate access to real solid, natural Latin which they can then
imitate and use.
Reginald Foster's method of teaching the Latin language is the result of
over forty years of helping people in Rome to grow fast and solidly in
the knowledge, use and appreciation of Latin by anticipating their
questions and preempting their future problems. The complications and
obscurities of certain other methods are hereby necessarily avoided.
Outsiders will discover that Latin is supremely teachable and loveable
and that every fear and terror about the so called insurmountable
difficulties of Latin are non-existent and that its destination for only
whiz-kids is sheer nonsense. Students will find clear explanations given
in narrative form to be grasped and absorbed even in the comfort of a
beach chair. Teachers will find the logical reasons why Latin functions
as it does and consequently a ready instrument for teaching and a fresh
method for communicating with students, supporting everyone in the
learning process.
