Micro-posts

Language

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

Greek

Translation is not meaning

One of the downsides of training students to translate in order to understand, is that they very often develop the erroneous notion that translation is meaning. "The meaning of Greek word X is English word Y", or slightly more complex versions of the same. No, no, no. Greek