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You may have heard of 'the third year problem'. It's the problem of getting through two years of Latin, through 'all the grammar', and working out what to teach school students in order to transition them to 'genuine' Latin. It's
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Lately James Tauber and I have been collaborating (him doing lots of work, me coming up with new things to do) on vocabulary data. My particular driving interest was how to structure the writing of LGPSI to introduce vocabulary, from the start, that will build students towards a strong basis
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If you've been over to the main LGPSI interface lately, you'll see it's currently at chapter 12. Actually I have written up to chapter 16, but with a little delay in posting some of those until I've had at least an initial
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So, I had this idea, and floated it on Twitter, and now it’s time to make it real. What if we adapted NaNoWriMo for penning original Latin and Ancient Greek texts? When I mentioned this idea, a couple of people said they had done so in the past, and
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Even though it’s only… October, I’m at a point of reflecting on the year gone past. This year I took the initiative to move from only doing individual tutoring, to offering online classes. I’d experienced enough of them myself, knew what other people and groups were doing,
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Just because you have gifts doesn’t mean you’ll get to use them. I’ve taught this many times. But it’s not an easy lesson to learn. I remember clearly one particularly member of a church, saying to me after a service, that he wasn’t sure how
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I think (perhaps naively optimistic) that we’re on the cusp of a generational divide in Latin education. And this post is an attempt to help some on the ‘old’ side of that divide, cross over to the ‘young’ side. What I mean is this: In the last 20 years
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LGPSI, also known as Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata, and by its Greek name ἡ ἑλληνικὴ γλῶσσα καθ’ αὑτὴν φωτιζομένη, is an expansive writing project aimed at producing a new type of Greek reading text built for learners of ancient Greek. It takes its name from the famous Lingua Latina
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it many more times – Ørberg completed a work of genius in composing Lingua Latina per se Illustrata. The more I read it, the more I see how carefully he crafted it, and appreciate the finesse required to construct a book (more
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Lately I’ve started copying out by hand the texts of Familia Romana and Italian Athenaze, complete with macrons, and full diacritics (including marking vowel lengths on alpha, iota, upsilon) in Greek. I was prompted to do so by hearing from a few people how valuable they had found the
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Last weekend I was alerted to this book, A Strange Odyssey: Confessions of a Classicist, by Carlos Martínez Aguirre, translated to English by Elaine Riedel and Francisco Javier González Estepa; (Thanks to David Miller for pointing it out to me.) This book resonated so much that I read it in
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I’m just back from spending a week (a mon-fri week only, quod me paenitet), at the 2nd Australian Rusticatio. What’s a rusticatio? Well, it’s a live-in, immersion week of Latin in a rural setting, in which you only speak in Latin, and participate in various