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 | 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....
by Dwane | Dec 18, 2023 | Education, English, Vocabulary
December: the twelfth and final month of the year December comes from the same root word that gives us the English decade (a period of ten years), decennial (occurring every ten years), decimal (to the tenth place), and dime (ten cents). December means: the tenth...
by Dwane | Dec 13, 2023 | Education, English
Noel: the period from December 24 to January 6. I have to admit, I did not know this was the definition of Noel until I did some research for this word. Noel came up the other day in a French class I am taking. The teacher was telling us about the French ‘Santa...
by Dwane | Oct 6, 2023 | Education, French, Italian, Latin, Motivation, Spanish
I received this question. It sparked a short correspondence between us Good afternoon and thank you for your resources! What is the most important/significant material to glean from Virgil’s Aeneid, from a grammar and/or rhetoric perspective? I am leading a...
by Dwane | Oct 5, 2023 | Education, Motivation
I received this comment from an online student: Hi Magister, This was triggered by “If you come to Latin class every day for 30 minutes you will learn Latin…” I heard an interesting quote on a different definition of intelligence. The speaker did not...
