by Dwane | Jul 9, 2024 | Ebook, Healthy, Wealthy, Wise
During the month of July (2024) Compass Classroom and I are offering a series of free Webinars on Goal Setting. Find out more right here: https://compassclassroom.com/shop/product/setting-goals-live-summer-2024/ To register for the next webinar, simply click here:...
by Dwane | Feb 10, 2024 | Latin, Visual Latin
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 time ago. The charts are free. Here...
by Dwane | Sep 3, 2021 | Education, English, Greek, Latin, Visual Latin, Vocabulary
People are often confused by all that I offer. I get that. It’s confusing. Here’s what’s going on. Visual Latin is a professionally filmed series. I do not personally sell it. It is available here from Compass Classroom. Once they have...
by Dwane | Jul 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
If you have ever worked your way through the Henle Latin series, by Robert Henle, you know the author asks students to diagram sentences. The series was published around seventy years ago. Back then, kids new how to diagram. Schools still taught the skill. These...
by Dwane | Jul 12, 2024 | Education, Latin
In Visual Latin, we learned all of Latin grammar. The complicated Latin endings often overwhelm students. For this reason, I filmed a series of videos. In these videos, I show students exactly how to use the complicated Latin charts I created to explain the...
by Dwane | Jul 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
This summer (2024), I am working my way through First Year Latin by Robert Henle. I am showing students how to parse and diagram sentences from each chapter. This is the third video from chapter...
by Dwane | Jul 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
If you have ever worked your way through the Henle Latin series, by Robert Henle, you know the author asks students to diagram sentences. The series was published around seventy years ago. Back then, kids new how to diagram. Schools still taught the skill. These...
by Dwane | Jul 9, 2024 | English, Latin
If you have ever worked your way through the Henle Latin series, by Robert Henle, you know the author asks students to diagram sentences. The series was published around seventy years ago. Back then, kids new how to diagram. Schools still taught the skill. These...
by Dwane | Jul 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
On Monday, July 8, 2024, I am offering a free webinar on setting and hitting goals. Actually, I am starting a series of webinars. We will meet every Monday morning in July of 2024 This is a free webinar organized by Compass Classroom. Feel free to join. Here is...
by Dwane | Jul 3, 2024 | Latin
by Dwane | May 13, 2024 | Education, French, Online Classes
I began studying French in 2020. As I have studied French, I have discovered many useful resources. Here, I share them with you. I hope they help you as much as they have helped me. If you are learning French, here are my top recommendations: (Note: Some of the...
by Dwane | May 6, 2024 | Spanish
I am attempting to level up in Spanish. Compass Classroom and I want to produce something like Visual Latin, for Spanish. It has been a dream for some time. Unfortunately, my Spanish skills are the hold up. I still have much to learn. As I have studied Spanish, I...
by Dwane | May 6, 2024 | German
German is the first foreign language I fell in love with. For nearly four years, I lived in Germany. My family live this tiny little, hardly on the map town: Leideneck. After returning back to America, Latin distracted me. I dropped German for a long time. Now, I...
by Dwane | Mar 16, 2024 | Tip of the Week
For about a decade, I sent out a “Tip of the Week”. Sometimes the “Tip of the Week” was something I found helpful for language study. Often, it was just something I found helpful. It could be about any topic, really. About a month ago, ...
by Dwane | Mar 16, 2024 | Visual Latin
To help you with the complicated Latin endings, I am creating videos for each lesson of Visual Latin. In these extra videos, I will show you exactly where on the charts to find the concepts and endings you are learning in Visual Latin. Here are the Latin charts I am...
by Dwane | Mar 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
A local student is interested in jumping ahead in French. It’s possible. This is how to do...
by Dwane | Feb 16, 2024 | Visual Latin
To help you with the complicated Latin endings, I am creating videos for each lesson of Visual Latin. In these extra videos, I will show you exactly where on the charts to find the concepts and endings you are learning in Visual Latin. Here are the Latin charts I am...
by Dwane | Jan 25, 2024 | Ebook, Education, Healthy
Last year I wrote a book on goal setting. I am now in the process of editing that book. As I edit, I will post excerpts here on my blog. This is from chapter four: _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Latin...
by Dwane | Jan 25, 2024 | Education, English, Vocabulary
In a French class this morning, my students and I learned the French word for forget: oublier. We spent a few minutes talking about the word. Oublier, the French verb, comes from the Latin verb meaning the same thing, obliviscor. Forgetful, in Latin, is oblitus....
by Dwane | Jan 24, 2024 | Education, English, Vocabulary
Raining hard in Tennessee today. On days like this my apanthropy usually kicks in. Apanthropy is the desire to be alone, a love of solitude. Apanthropy comes from two Greek words. The preposition ἀπό (apo) means “away from”. Ἄνφροπος (anthropos), which you may...
by Dwane | Jan 23, 2024 | Vocabulary
Someone once said, “English is a German language with a Latin vocabulary.” We can see the truth of that statement in the word fiancée. This word came up this morning in a French class I teach. In French, a fiancée is a woman who has promised to marry. ...
by Dwane | Jan 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Last year I wrote a book on goal setting. I am now in the process of editing that book. As I edit, I will post excerpts here on my blog. This is from chapter four: _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Why...
by Dwane | Jan 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Exhaust: to drain; to deplete. This morning, in a Latin class, we came across the Latin verb exhaurire. Exhaurire is Latin for drawing out, emptying, or draining. Exhaurire itself is a combination of the preposition ex, meaning ‘out of’ and haurire,...
by Dwane | Dec 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Snow: small, soft, white flakes of ice falling from the sky. This word has been in our language since the beginning. In Old English, snow was snaw. English is a Germanic language. Finding similar words in the Germanic languages, then, comes as no surprise. German:...
by Dwane | Dec 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Santa Claus: the legendary patron saint of children The name Santa Claus first shows up in American English in 1773. Before then, Santa Claus was known as Sante Klaas, which itself comes from the old Dutch name for the saint: Sinter Niklaas. Today, in Holland, he is...
by Dwane | Dec 19, 2023 | Education, English, Vocabulary
Calendar: a system for measuring the days and months of the year. Calendar comes from the only word in Latin that uses the letter K, Kalendae. The Kalendae, to the Romas, was the first day of the month. It was also the day debts were due and accounts were reckoned....
