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Today I want to get back to talking about “authentic” texts and language learning. It would behoove you to read the prior post that sets this one up. Firstly, let’s talk about terminology. Very often people talk about “authentic texts”, and in classical languages they really mean something like
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This started as a long twitter thread about something else, but I’ve split it into at least two posts (that might be ironic). First, let me suggest one (among many) analogies for language learning - climbing a slope to the top of a mountain. In our case, the mountain summit
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So, I recently saw this blog post, and I am offering something of a public rejoinder here. I don’t know Carla Hurt, and I actually have no particular issue with the specific intervention suggested here, but there’s a systemic misunderstanding of CI, Krashen, and Ørberg in this post
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In Greek, my understanding on Voice has been largely shaped by Kemmer, Allen, and R. Aubrey. To whit, Ancient Greek operates with an Active-Middle voice system, and the sooner you come to grips with that and jettison concepts like a distinct morphological passive, and 'deponent', the better.
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Apart from having useful Grammar Terms up one's sleeve, it's also very useful just to know how to ask basic questions and respond to them. Here's a cheat-sheet of sorts (Greek Question Words) that I have drafted up recently. I'll keep
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So how do you go about finding/using words for new-er things in ancient Greek? It's a conundrum, and it's more a conundrum in Greek than Latin, but here are a few of my working principles: 1. I look at English>Greek dictionaries. Woodhouse,
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I've thought about this quite a bit, and I don't have all the answers, but nonetheless I have some thoughts. So often when we're in a language context, a context where we are learners, we feel the need to perform. Whether it's
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I've scoured my notes from several sources and put together this cheat sheet for Greek Grammatical terms which I use, and which may be of use for others. I've culled it from Christophe Rico's Polis book, Randall Buth's BLC materials, the Alexandros
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Last week I brought to a close a 10-week experiment in a Latin-learning-experience, "Latin via RPG". I offered this as a kind of 'course', but as one participant pointed out it might better be called a 'learning-experience', since it was
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Recently I have been writing and semi-publishing a series of texts with the title 'A Spartan Tale'. You can see the first two here and here, via my patreon. I will, at a future point, provide a more stable means of accessing the text. In this post
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Recently the Australian government released a statement signalling its intentions to drastically alter the way it costs, funds, and charges for studies in Australian universities. Now, many of you readers are not Australian, so let me explain a little briefly. Undergraduate (Bachelor) students (and others) are here able to defer
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I often find myself coming up with analogies and illustrations that help students understand not only how a particular piece of language works, but how languages, and language learning, works as a whole. Here's one that I think is good, but a little bit odd. Think of your