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Internet troubles
As I suspected... internet troubles. First of all, we WILL be meeting tomorrow (Tuesday, March 19, 2019) and Wednesday (Tuesday, March 19, 2019) for the regular Henle Latin and Lingua Latina classes. However, the numerous early morning classes I teach are going to...
Here is why I am self-employed
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.' - Dave Barry
Letter of the week. 🙂
"We love and greatly appreciate your site! Thank you for the all the effort you clearly put into it!! We use your previous Lingua Latina class videos to clear up unclear concepts. The Lingua Latina book is great but your lessons make for a much fuller learning...
Despacito… sort of.
I know, I know. The craze is over. No one talks about the song "Despacito" anymore. But... here's the thing. I am working on filing taxes these days. And, I feel like my uncle is pointing his finger at my wallet. Soooo... I can either continue working on taxes,...
Kudos
I get notes like this all the time. Picks me up when I'm feeling low. “We subscribed to your classes in January because my son needed some extra help with the class he was taking locally. He never got to participate in an online class because your class was much...
How do I spell Latin verbs?
A student contacted me this week with several questions. How do I know which verb is in which conjugation? Once, I know, how do I know if I am spelling it correctly? Here is my reply: https://vimeo.com/322230934 Here are the helpful sites: The Latin...
Which verb conjugation?
I received this question: I recently started Visual Latin lesson 40...and am very confused over the verbs and their conjugations. While I'm rather rusty on the endings, I could identify a verb if I had all four of the principal parts, and from there sort it into its...
No classes March 7 – 11.
Guys, I am taking a very short spring break. There will be no morning classes March 7 and 11. In other words, no classes on Thursday and Friday of next week and no classes on the following Monday.
I received this question: Dear Mr. Thomas, I have been studying hard on the different tenses of verbs. These days, my Latin lessons have been filled with present tense, imperfect tense, perfect tense, future tense, the three participles, the supine... it's enough to...
What next?
I received this note: Hi Dwane, Hope all is well man! I have to say I really miss the Latin classes with you Dwane. Since I finished VL2 in December I am trying to learn French. I found a website called French 4 me/French with Vincent that has 4 grammar...