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Lots of my current thoughts are emerging out of my studies in Gaelic this semester. Today I want to talk a little about how we conceptualise a 'word'. And why it's so problematic a concept but ineluctably so. I think that a lot of us, when
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I've been working away on writing course notes for λαλεῖτε, which is designed to be a course in "how would you learn to speak Ancient Greek, as if you were doing a course for a modern language and learning the basic language that a CEFR-A1 course
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Best Friend When it comes to language learning, time is your friend. It's there every step of the way, and you are going to be spending a lot of it to get anywhere. And so don't sweat it. Enjoy the ride. It will take time, and
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I mostly write about classical languages here, Greek and Latin, but long time readers will know that I have been a long-time learner of Scottish Gaelic [1] . I thought it might be informative if I wrote a little bit about what I'm currently doing for my Gaelic
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Two things occasion my reflection today. Firstly, the crisis now engulfing U Chicago, and its internal documents circulated, regarding cutting humanities, languages in particular, sending students off to other institutions, trying to get AI to teach languages. There's a lot more to be said about that, and this
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If you haven't heard elsewhere, Gregory Stringer, an excellent and experienced Latin speaker and teacher, is running a course starting in September geared towards the new AP Latin course covering Pliny. He and I talk about the new curriculum, his new workbook, and the course in this video.
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It's probably everybody's favourite question for me, and one of my least favourite, because I know how much people want this to progress, and I want it to progress, and it's ... slow-moving. So in today's post I want to tell you
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I'm pleased to announce here the launch of my book, Ὁ ἐπὶ Τροίᾱν Πόλεμος (the Trojan War). The novella is a translation and adaptation of Bellum Troianum by Brian Gronewoller, it's a 5000 word novella for Elementary-Mid readers. It's a great little book,
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I've held off writing this for a few reasons, but time is running out on me. Firstly, I enjoyed a summer holiday here in Australia, and did my best not to work. That was successful, but now it's time for me to return from sun and
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I know that you are used to me announcing projects and not exactly completing them. It's a character flaw. I'm working on it.Over on my patreon I have begun releasing, one a week, short 100-ish word stories. These stories are composed with very restricted
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χαίρετε πάντες! After 5 years of teaching students their way through Athenaze in an online environment, I've become very familiar with the book and its main narrative, and I've taught a lot of people all the way through both volumes now. In 2025, as part of