by Dwane | Apr 11, 2015 | Education, Latin, Visual Latin
I received this email: Dwane, I am very interested in having my daughter do this online class but have a few questions about it’s structure. 1. Are the online classes interactive? 2. It seems that this class is a combination of both Visual Latin and Lingua Latina....
by Dwane | Apr 11, 2015 | Education, Errata, Latin, Visual Latin
I received this comment on Facebook: Question: In lesson 27, 27B Sentences number 14 – Instead of matrem docuit, should it read, matrem docere? Here is my reply: Yep. You are correct! Thank you for pointing this out to me. Here is the question 14. Pater putat...
by Dwane | Apr 11, 2015 | English, Latin, Vocabulary
Pedestrian: a walker; someone who journeys on foot. As an adjective, something pedestrian describes a going on foot; walking; made on foot; as a pedestrian journey. Interestingly, pedestrian also means boring, mundane, banal, prosaic, or commonplace. When we use the...
by Dwane | Apr 11, 2015 | Education, Greek, Vocabulary
Gastropod: Snails and slugs. These guys are members of a class of mollusks (Gastropoda) that use their stomachs as a foot. I used to work with some guys like that. A scientist named Georges Cuvier coined the word in 1795. Cuvier created the word by combining the Greek...
by Dwane | Apr 11, 2015 | Education, Latin, Visual Latin
I received this email: We are working through the Cornelia primer that was made available through CompassClassroom. Is there an answer book to make sure I am translating correctly? Just wondering how to incorporate this along with VL. I am also curious if you place...
