10 courses · small groups · Microsoft Teams
All 10 courses available as live online classes via Microsoft Teams. Join a small group cohort with fixed dates, or book personal tuition and work directly with Nigel at a time that suits you.
Two ways to join
Group cohort
Learn alongside a small group. Fixed intake dates, 8 × 2hr sessions, live interaction with Nigel.
Personal tuition
Work through the full course content 1-on-1. Completely flexible scheduling.
Origins trilogy
What first sparked human language — the African savannah two million years ago, or the moment humans began expressing themselves…
Discover how English, Sanskrit, Latin and Greek all descend from one ancient ancestor — and what that tells us about…
Why is English spelling so wildly out of step with how the language is actually pronounced? How did its grammar…
Classical languages
Ancient Greek gave Europe its earliest great literature — from Homer's epics to the lyric poetry of Sappho and Pindar,…
Latin sits at the root of Western civilisation. Long after the Roman empire fell, it remained medieval Europe's language of…
Sanskrit captivated Western scholars from the eighteenth century onward, when its deep kinship with Latin, Greek and English first came…
Ancient civilisations
Egyptian hieroglyphs are as striking visually as they are intriguing linguistically. This course is a first step toward reading them…
Sumerian may be the oldest language to survive from antiquity, with clay tablets dating as far back as 3200BC. It…
Old Norse — the language of the Vikings, the sagas, and the parent of the modern Scandinavian languages. Many English…
Survey course
Most people know Ancient Greek and Latin — but the ancient European world held many more languages, each with its…
Three courses are also available as self-paced digital study — enrol anytime, no intake dates.