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Re-sequencing vocabulary for NT Greek learners
Download NTGreekSequencing.mp3 Here's the audio, and slideshow, for a presentation I did late last week, which will be of interest to some of you. Powerpoint Audio
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But didn’t you do grammar-translation?
I get this a lot, of variations on it. Yes, it’s undeniably true that I studied Greek and Latin via grammar translation methods. I did 5 years of Latin at university, all G-T. And I was taught Greek via G-T. And at the end of 5 years
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Maybe the key to teaching the perfect is not to teach it
As I've been working on Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata, I've had more of a chance to reflect on Ørberg's methodology in LLPSI, but also principles of SLA, how to sequence a text, and how to shelter vocabulary and/or morphology for students. It
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Could one write a communicative curriculum to cover Mounce?
I’ve been a bit behind in my blogging; I have some half-finished materials but the busyness of general life has been rather much lately. This is a question that was put to me, and I thought it worth making into a post. The answer is, “only if we
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Same conversation, same text - a technique
One of the things I have been reflecting on recently, both in reading a fair bit, but also working on the composition of LGPSI, is how useful it is, and would be, to take the WAYK concept of “same conversation” and apply it at the text level. Same conversation is
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Reading... sideways?
One of the things I've become increasingly aware of as a strategy for developing greater comprehension and fluency, is what I've taken to calling 'reading sideways'. In particular, this has crystallised for me lately while reflecting on my reading through the Lingua Latina Per
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The Greek Perfect, Learners, and you (part 1)
Having been asked about how you teach the Greek perfect, or even how you figure it out, I thought I’d start by surveying a range of books that I have to hand or easy access to, to see what they say about the Perfect. The Greek perfect tense for
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How to teach students the aorist vs. imperfect
Or, how to teach students aspect not time.... Here's how 95% of Greek textbooks teach Greek verbs. 1. Start with the present indicative. Explain it's basically equivalent to your L1 present indicative. 2. Introduce the imperfect indicative. Explain it's basically equivalent to "was
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State of the Projects, Jan 2019
It’s been a long time since I wrote a post like this. But I think it’s time to resume an end-of-month personal reflection. Language Logging January was always going to be a bit weird on this spectrum. I logged 58’33” altogether. 6’31” for Gaelic
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Re-conceiving the middle voice for Greek and Latin students (VI)
Well, I hope by this point, I’ve done a few things: 1. Convinced you that Greek has an active v. middle voice system, in which the middle domain covers a range of different categories, all generally united by ‘subject affectedness’ 2. Convinced you that ‘deponency’ is not a useful
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Re-conceiving the middle voice for Greek and Latin students (V)
So, about Latin then All through this series (one, two, three, four) I’ve been careful to include Latin examples of the various semantic categories covered. That’s because I’ve often wondered about Latin – does it really have deponent verbs? The answer is, it’s complicated. It’s complicated
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So, you want to log hours of language activity
How can you practically do this? How will I be doing this? This is a follow-on post from this one. Firstly, let me address an issue raised by my wife, which is comparing my Latin experience with Mongolian is apples and oranges. Because time spent in Mongolia was overwhelmingly