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Languages at the Universitas

Three ways to learn a language.

Languages at the Universitas Scholarium are taught three quite different ways — each suited to a different student, a different aim, and a different stage. Choose the one that fits what you are trying to do.

I · The Teacher

Magister

A dedicated language tutor who adapts to you. Tell Magister the language, your level, and what you want to work on — grammar, conversation, reading, pronunciation. Magister teaches Socratically, in your zone of proximal development. For modern languages, structured but personal.

How to use Magister →
II · The Courses

The Manesca Method courses

Structured language courses on the Manesca oral system — the same method used by the great nineteenth-century language schools, restored and built lesson by lesson from the original sources. New courses added as they are completed.

Browse the language courses →
III · The Classical Way

Speak with the classics

Sit with Cicero in Latin, Pāṇini in Sanskrit, Confucius in Classical Chinese, Saadi in Persian. Not language teaching — immersion through scholarship. The classics converse in their own tongue. You ask, you stumble, you ask again. The way it has always been done.

Meet the classical tutors →

All three routes are open to every student. Many take more than one — Magister for the grammar and the conversation drill, the Manesca courses for the structured method, and the classical scholars for the deep reading. They complement each other.