Enrolling now: the Winter Term
Fall Term 2026
Winter Term begins Saturday, November 21.
Ten weekly classes from November 21 and 22. Find your child below; each card is the course we would recommend. Times are in Korea time, with your own time beneath.
Natural Latin 1
For beginners. Latin learned in Latin.
Saturdays, 9–11 AM Korea time
Grades 7 & 8Oxford Latin 1
For beginners. Story and grammar together.
Saturdays, 11 AM–1 PM Korea time
Grades 9 to 12Grammar Latin 1
For beginners. The direct route.
Sundays, 11 AM–1 PM Korea time
Grades 10 to 12Intensive Latin
All of the grammar in thirty classes.
Saturdays, 3–5 PM Korea time
AP Latin this MayAP Latin Prose & Poetry
Weekly from November, or caught up over Christmas.
Saturdays & Sundays, 9–11 PM Korea time
Grades 9 to 12 · In EnglishHumane Letters, Volume I
The great books, and essays for international competitions.
Saturdays or Sundays, 1–3 PM Korea time
Already know some Latin? There are continuing classes too, and a free Placement Reading shows which fits. The full Winter Schedule →
Not sure it will suit your child? Withdraw before the first class and all of the tuition is returned; after one to three classes, two‑thirds. Refunds →
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On Instagram, every evening at 10 PM Korea time, a new sentence is parsed the same way. See it on Instagram →
One teacher, from the first sentence to the AP exam
I teach every class at Emerson Latin myself: a ten-year-old’s first Latin sentence, the AP Latin Exam, a senior’s advanced literature seminar, and every Humane Letters Volume. There is no second instructor and no rotating staff. The person you meet in the first conversation is the person who teaches your child, and who still remembers in the ninth grade what your child found difficult in the fifth.
I began Latin at twelve, at a seminary where we prayed, sang, and argued in it. I have taught it since 2015, first in Seoul and now online. The Magister →
“It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy, because they require exactitude of performance.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Education.” Why the academy bears his name →
Why Latin matters more in the age of AI
A machine can now translate Cicero in a second. That is not an argument against learning Latin. It is an argument for it. When anything can be explained, summarized, or written for a student, the rare and valuable thing is a mind that can read slowly and think for itself, and a record of having done it, live, in front of a teacher.
- The work happens in the room. Students read aloud at sight, defend their translations out loud, and argue in Socratic seminar. There is nothing to outsource.
- What cannot be faked counts more. A proctored exam, a contest medal, a teacher who has known a student for years: these mean more as everything else becomes easy to fake.
Latin in the age of AI → · Twelve short essays on why Latin →
Choosing a course is simple. The grade decides.
Natural Latin
The nature methodAbout two years Grades 7–8Oxford Latin
Half story, half grammarSix terms Grades 9–12Grammar Latin
Grammar-translationFour terms Grades 10–12Intensive Latin
The fast route to APThirty classesEvery first course leads to the same path: Latin Literature, then AP Latin, then, for those who want to go further, Advanced Latin Literature. See where your child could be, and when →
Humane Letters: classical English reading and writing
For grades 9 to 12, whether or not your child studies Latin with us. Not a writing class, but a reading class that produces writers: the great books, read closely and argued about in Socratic seminar, with essays written for international competitions throughout the year. Five Volumes, one for each term; a student may begin with any of them, at the start of a term or in the middle of one.
- Vol. IThe Birth of Philosophical Reason
- Vol. IIThe Making of the Autonomous Individual
- Vol. IIIThe Individual and Society
- Vol. IVUnmasking and the Existential Response
- Vol. VSystems, Their Record, and a Planetary Vantage
Admission by Viva, a short conversation about a poem, in the tradition of the Oxford admissions interview. About Humane Letters →
The international contests
Before each international contest in Latin and classical humanities, I run a separate preparation course of up to five sessions. Students work through real exams from past years, many going back decades, and study guides of our own. There is more than enough material to prepare a student fully. The Latin courses themselves are the real foundation: there is no substitute for the reading these contests test.
Writing is different. In Humane Letters, students prepare and submit essays for international writing competitions many times through the year, inside the course itself.
Where those students went next is recorded, one student at a time, in Student Milestones.
The Record
Results and student milestones are recorded here as they come in, and I write often on Latin, classical education, and the questions parents ask.
ESSAYS
On Latin & Classical Education
New essays appear often, on the classical tradition and its bearing on the present.
COMMENDATIONS
Contest Results
Results from the international contests in Latin and classical humanities, and in writing.
LAURELS
Student Milestones
One student at a time: an AP score, an admission, a prize, a piece of writing.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Course Openings & Term Dates
New courses, term dates, and anything a family should know.
When the schedule does not fit
- Bring your own group. Four or more friends choose their own time, at any point in the year. How →
- Learn from the recordings. Every class is recorded. A student busy for a whole term can follow the course from the recordings and hand in work online, checked and graded. How →
- A private tutorial. At whatever times suit your child, at your child’s pace. How →