Word Up: Live and “Adumbrate”

Ran across an interesting quote this morning during Word Up: Live! Vocabulary.com quoted Lauren Collins from an article in the New Yorker. “More than any juice cleanse or lottery win or career switch, a foreign language adumbrates a vision of a parallel...

Go long, Hermann!

I’ve been reading The Decline and fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. Today I came across this quote.  Gibbon is describing the Barbaric tribes far north of the Roman Empire.  Well, at least I think is.  I suppose it was possible that he was predicting...

Henle Latin again.

I received this comment: I’m looking for some help with my Latin study. I am a first year Classical Conversations Challenge B tutor. We are using Henle 1. This is my first year tutoring and also learning Latin. I’m not finding Henle very user-friendly for someone...

First Year Latin by Robert Henle – Live online!

Since Classical Conversations adopted Henle Latin as their preferred Latin textbook, we have received requests from students asking for an online Henle Latin Class.  Well… here it is! This fall, I will take students through the first year Henle course! That’s right....

Bad medicine is what I need.

I am re-reading many of the testimonials that have come in through the years.  I am mining them for some advertising ideas. Honestly, by March, I am done with Latin.  Tired of it.  If Latin came over to my house to ask to borrow an egg, I would probably throw the egg...