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This is the first in a series of answers to Critiques and Comments to Communicative Approaches to Ancient Languages (which is a mouthful and I won't repeat it like that. Essentially, I asked people on twitter for some of their best critiques of Communicative-Approaches, and received a
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A brief note this week, introducing you to the superb work of Alexius Cosanus: Magister latīnitātis sum in scholā classicā Vestōniāna, quae in Tennēsiā locāta est. Italus sum ex illā terrā tūscolatīnā, quae Maremma vocātur. Operam dēdī praesertim antrōpologiae et linguisticae, quārē minus mē classicistam quam linguistam dīxerim. In pāgellā
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I'm so pleased to present this next in my series of interviews with Latin/Ancient Greek content creators, with Claire Mieher: So, tell us a little bit about yourself, and your previous experiences with languages I grew up in Western Massachusetts and lived exclusively in the Northeast until
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1. paulum nobis narra de te ipso, et quomodo alias linguas in primis didicisses. Nōmen mihi est Caia Caesarēnsis (vel saltem id vocārī mālō, partim quod Novae Caesarēae versārī soleō). Profestrix sum nōn Latīnae sed Physicae et investīgātiōnēs īnstrūmentīs mathēmaticīs condūcō ad vulcānōs in fundō maris pertinentēs. Quamquam inūsitātum sit,
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So, tell us a little bit about yourself, and your previous experiences with languages So my career to date is a pretty odd one. I went to law school fully intending on becoming a criminal law barrister and then a judge (naïve 16 year-old me wanted to sit in
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Series forward: One of the things I'm interested in doing more of, is promoting those involved in generated new, original authored materials for Latin and Ancient Greek. I hope this will spotlight some of the amazing work being done and produced, and encourage you to go and read
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Over on twitter, our friend Travis asks the somewhat provocative question Almost every single Communicative Greek resource I've ever seen commits a very basic error with naming. According to John Lee, Greeks said: τὸ ὄνομά μου or ὄνομά μοι but NEVER τὸ ὄνομά μοι. How has literally everyone
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Lately I've been talking here and there about a few things that all interrelate, so I thought I'd try to bring them together in one post, with a pitch at the end. Reading Easy Greek I spend a lot of time these days reading quite easy
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I'm going to try a thing, where I just post some observations on a Greek passage 'in passing', i.e. not an in depth study or anything, but things I noticed this week. This week is Mark 9:1-29, and I'm using the
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Series forward: One of the things I'm interested in doing more of, is promoting those involved in generated new, original authored materials for Latin and Ancient Greek. I hope this will spotlight some of the amazing work being done and produced, and encourage you to go and read
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Just this week my sodalis latinitatis graecitatisque optimus (Andrew Morehouse) and I launched a new podcast! It's called ἑλληνιζώμεθα and it is an unscripted conversation between us in Ancient Greek about, well, about topics that interest us. The first episode is now live, you can listen on Anchor,
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Thanks to the generosity of a number of individuals, I'm pleased to announce that you can now apply for a scholarship for any of my courses in the coming year. I recognise that because I operate as a private enterprise and this is my livelihood, unlike more formal