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This is a follow-on from ‘on the desire not to speak’, and a continuation of the longer ‘objections’ series. See here for parts one, two, three, and four. And today I want to talk about those whose objection to communicative methods is, paraphrasing Jeremy J. Swist, I don’t
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Part of my ongoing response to answers to Critiques and Comments to Communicative Approaches to Ancient Languages. See here for parts one, two, three. What about students who have selected Latin or Greek because they want to take a foreign language that doesn't require them to speak, or
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This is third in a series of answers to Critiques and Comments to Communicative Approaches to Ancient Languages. See here for parts one and two. @consistam: not a critique, but I'm curious about how proponents of communicative approaches handle the transition to upper level classes, where literary and
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This is second in a series of answers to Critiques and Comments to Communicative Approaches to Ancient Languages. The first post has had some very thoughtful and worthwhile responses so do go and read them. I have quite a few posts to come, so today I thought I'd
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Inspired in large part by the Latin Listening Project launched by Justin Slocum Bailey, I think it's high about time we had an Ancient Greek one. So I'm starting one. There's been more and more listenable material in Ancient Greek lately, what I'
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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