by Dwane | Feb 8, 2025 | Latin
Help With Henle Latin For years—no exaggeration—I’ve received emails and comments from people begging for help with Henle Latin. I’ve taught the series for years, guiding my students through First Year Latin, Second Year Latin, and parts of Third Year Latin by Robert...
by Dwane | Feb 10, 2024 | Latin, Visual Latin
Visual Latin and the Latin Endings From time to time I get questions about the complicated Latin endings. Students want to know if there is a place to find them all. Turns out, there is. If you go here, and scroll down, you will find some Latin charts I made some...
by Dwane | Jul 14, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week # 331: Want to Level Up in a Language? Try Comic Books! 📘 Want to Level Up in a Language? Try Comic Books! I loved reading comic books as a kid. Then I grew up and stopped reading comics. Now I’m reading them again—this time in French, Spanish, and...
by Dwane | Jul 11, 2025 | Motivation
Possessions are problematic I have been reading (again) Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence. This is the most hardcore guide to frugality I’ve ever read — like a Special Forces field manual for cutting expenses. In...
by Dwane | Jul 9, 2025 | Q&A
How do I add sub-accounts for each of my children? Have multiple children? To give each their own account and track progress separately, just follow these steps: After signing in to your account, click on the Members menu and go to Account Info. Next, click on the...
by Dwane | Jul 9, 2025 | Q&A
How Do I Update my Credit Card Information? Go to the Members menu and choose Account Info. After that, click on the Subscriptions link on the resulting page, and you’ll see a screen like this… Click the Update link circled in yellow above, and...
by Dwane | Jul 5, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week # 330: The One Tip That’ll Save You Time with Furniture 🛠 Tip of the Week: Hide It Where You’ll Need It Here’s a tip I wish I’d started using years ago: When you assemble furniture, tape the spare parts and instructions to the underside. Instead of...
by Dwane | Jun 28, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #329: Tired of Forgetting Things? Try This Tip of the Week: A Simple To-Do List that Works I’ve tried dozens of digital to-do lists. Most are too complicated.This week, though, I found something simple and useful: To-do Tab. To-do Tab is a free...
by Dwane | Jun 21, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #328: How to Master Your Time using the Eisenhower Matrix President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” That insight became the basis for the Eisenhower Matrix, a simple but...
by Dwane | Jun 7, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #327: How to Pack Light Not long ago, I took a group of students to Europe. To pack for the trip, I used the following checklist: Rick Steves Packing List (PDF) I recommend packing light. Resist the urge to take it all with you. If you get to...
by Dwane | May 17, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #326: Practice Over Passion Loving something—like learning a language—is a great start. But passion and talent will only take you so far. The real progress comes when you show up consistently, even on the hard days. This is why I structure my classes...
by Dwane | May 10, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #325: Language Learning Hack: One Chapter a Day I often suggest my students listen to the Bible in the language they’re learning. The Bible has been translated into thousands of languages and is also available in audio format. For a long...
by Dwane | Apr 26, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #324: How to Save on Gas, Insurance, and Repairs with One Smart Vehicle Choice Tennessee confuses me. All around me, I hear people talking about money troubles. And, all around me I see gigantic pickup trucks rumbling up and down the road. A quick...
by Dwane | Apr 19, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #323: When Words Whisper Blessings I’ve been fascinated by languages since I was 15, when my family moved to Germany. One of the things I love most is discovering the hidden stories inside everyday words. Since Easter is tomorrow, I wanted to share...
by Dwane | Apr 14, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #322 – Learn French or German with Chatterbug! Forgot to send this on Saturday… so, here I am on a Monday. Back in April of 2022, I discovered Chatterbug.com. In those days, Chatterbug featured live stream language learning nearly every...
by Dwane | Apr 7, 2025 | Tip of the Week
LEGO Tip of the Week #7: A Great Way to Display Your Formula One Collection Hey, Vestavia Hills! If you are a Formula One fan and looking for a way to display your sets, you might like this: https://amzn.to/4i6JQA1....
by Dwane | Apr 5, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #321: A Simple Tool That Could Save Your Life This tip isn’t about Latin or Greek, or any other languages. It’s about survival. And it could save your life one day. If you are going on any hikes this spring, carry a whistle. A whistle can do...
by Dwane | Mar 29, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #320: How I am Fighting Information Overload Sometimes, I bite off more than I can chew. I have too many PDFs, courses, and books—info products I bought with high hopes—I’ve never really benefited from. So, these days, I am focusing on what I...
by Dwane | Mar 22, 2025 | Tip of the Week
LEGO Tip of the Week: Creative LEGO Ideas to Build Outside the Box! At Bricks and MiniFigs Vestavia Hills, we have seen some pretty creative ideas. Turns out, many of you are willing to show us the photos and videos on your phones. 🙂 Well, here are some more...
by Dwane | Mar 22, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #319: The Flu Took Me Out – Here’s What Helped I ended up with the flu over spring break. Fun. Some things you just have to push through, I suppose. When it comes to the flu, I found something that helps. Years ago, while working in a...
by Dwane | Mar 8, 2025 | Tip of the Week
LEGO Tip of the Week #5: Playing with Lego is Good for You! You probably know already, but it turns out, playing with LEGO is actually good for you! The Children’s Wellness Center in London, England recently posted a blog post on the benefits of playing with...
by Dwane | Mar 8, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #318: A Simple Way to Save a Ton of Money This might get me into trouble. There is an easy way to save a ton of money in America. Avoid new cars. I spend a lot of time with students. As soon as they turn sixteen, many start driving brand-new cars....
by Dwane | Mar 3, 2025 | Q&A, Visual Latin
Visual Latin | Lesson 20: Captivus? I received this question: My 6th grader is working through Visual Latin and really enjoying it, however we are often tripped up on the translation portions. Curious about one thing in lesson 20C. Lot captivus est. – Lot is a...
by Dwane | Mar 1, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #317: How to Keep Your Coffee, Tea, or Water Warm I have a weird problem. I teach in the morning. Each class lasts 25 minutes. Between each class, I have time for a very short break. Sometimes, I will heat up a cup of coffee, only to find it...
by Dwane | Feb 15, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #316: A Simple Way to Clean Up Your Camera Roll If you’re like me (and I know I am), your phone is overflowing with thousands of photos. Over the Christmas break, I tried to clean up my camera roll and found the process overwhelming. I needed an...
by Dwane | Feb 1, 2025 | English
Tip of the Week #314: Learn English with Asterix the Gaul For some time, I’d been thinking of resurrecting my old YouTube channel. Hadn’t posted anything in nine years. Honestly, I grew weary of the “Latin perfect pronunciation police”. ...
