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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
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I was incredibly intrigued lately to learn that Iain MacGilleathain, lesser known brother to Somhairle MacGill-Eain, had produced a translation of the Odyssey into Gàidhlig. There being a veritable dearth of information on John, I ordered Iasad Rann, which is a collection of his verse (and a few prose
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Part 3 of our read-through of of Rachel Aubrey’s thesis on the Greek middle. Part 1., and Part 2. Numbers in brackets are page references. Chapter 2 of Aubrey’s thesis looks at the Greek middle in the context of other languages and their voice systems. How does
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I was very interested, and a little surprised, by the recent announcement by the Gaelic Algorithm Research Group about a Gaelic Linguistic Analyser which performs Part-of-Speech tagging, lemmatisation, and syntactic parsing. Surprised, because I knew of the work that had been done previously on automatic PoS tagging, but
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Carrying on with our read-through of Rachel Aubrey's thesis on the Greek middle. Part 1 here. Numbers in brackets are page references. The rest of chapter 1 provides an overview of approaches to the middle. Aubrey commences this by highlighting two issues – (i) the semantic basis of
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We first meet Dikaiopolis in the popular textbook, Athenaze, reading 1α. He is an αὐτουργός, that is – he owns a small farm allotment and works it with his own hands. He is by no means rich, but he is at least wealthy enough to own one enslaved person. We are
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I’m asked more and more often (surprising to myself), how one goes about getting an active/communicative/spoken competency in Greek, Koine or Classical. And I was asked again today, and I thought I would write up for more general consumption what I would recommend in the current setting: