Announcements · Winter Term 2026

AP Latin This May: It Is Not Too Late

October 22, 2026

It is not too late to begin AP Latin for this May’s exam. Students who join this winter sit the exam beside students who began in September.

Prose and poetry, together. The AP Latin exam covers both prose and poetry, so AP students take both courses: AP Latin Prose on Saturdays and AP Latin Poetry on Sundays, two hours each.

Our AP students have spent the fall on the teacher’s choice passages. From Winter Term, the classes turn to the required readings in Pliny the Younger and Vergil, the passages the exam is built on.

Choose one of two ways in. A student takes one or the other, not both.

Option one: from Winter Term, once a week

For the student who is free now. Join AP Latin Prose and AP Latin Poetry just as the required readings begin. Every fall class was recorded, so the teacher’s choice passages can be caught up at home.

• AP Latin Prose: Saturdays, 9 to 11 PM Korea time, from November 21; 7 to 9 AM Saturday, US Eastern
• AP Latin Poetry: Sundays, 9 to 11 PM Korea time, from November 22; 7 to 9 AM Sunday, US Eastern

Option two: the Winter Intensive, over Christmas

For the student who is busy until the break and will be in Korea over it: students at international schools in Korea, and boarding school students home for Christmas. Over two weeks, Monday to Thursday, the student covers everything since September.

• Prose: December 21 to 24 and 28 to 31, 9 AM to 1 PM Korea time
• Poetry: the same days, 2 to 6 PM Korea time

Christmas Day and New Year’s Day are free. In January, the student joins the Saturday and Sunday classes, level with everyone else.

For students at Korean foreign language high schools, whose winter break usually begins in January, a January catch-up is being planned. Write to us and we will tell you as soon as the dates are set.

Either way leads to the same place: weekly classes on the weekends, when students are freest, through to exam day in May. Along the way, students may enter the advanced levels of the international Latin competitions, where a prize means something on a college application.

One honest note on timing. The winter break is the last point at which a new student can catch up in time for May. After it, we would rather a student wait a year and do it properly.

How to begin. A free fifteen-minute Placement Reading with Ioannes Magister over Zoom. Your child reads a short passage aloud and translates it with him, so that we know where to begin. Before it, tell us the textbook your child has been using and the chapter they reached.

Write to us on KakaoTalk in Korean, WhatsApp in English, or at contact@emersonlatin.com. We reply within one business day. Or book your fifteen minutes directly.