by Dwane | Apr 3, 2015 | Education, Latin
A adult student in Japan has been watching the Lingua Latina recordings. He sent this note: I’m really surprised at the way you teach Latin. Your magic wand makes the “dead” language so alive and approchable that I always feel as if I were learning present-day French...
by Dwane | Apr 3, 2015 | Education, English, Latin, Motivation
Impede: To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct. Yesterday, I blogged the word “expedite.” When you break it down, to expedite, is to un-shackle the feet. Once the feet are free, things happen faster. To impede someone is the exact opposite. The Latin verb...
by Dwane | Apr 2, 2015 | Education, Latin, Visual Latin
I received this question: I’ve see you say in various contexts that to learn Latin you need to commit about an hour a day. So far as I’ve explored Visual Latin (prior to the introduction of Linga Latina, I’ll grant you), it seems that each chapter...
by Dwane | Apr 2, 2015 | Education, Latin, Uncategorized
I received this email: Hi, I wanted to contact you to see if you had any suggestions for Classical Conversations Challenge Directors that need to be able to tutor Henle. I shared the online classes but they actually need to begin this adventure this summer. Have you...
by Dwane | Apr 2, 2015 | Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Antipodes: directly opposite. Once used in the United Kingdom to refer to Australia and New Zealand. After all, those countries are on the opposite sides of the globe. This means, of course, that the feet of the residents of those countries are directly opposite. ...
by Dwane | Apr 2, 2015 | Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Expedite: to make it happen faster; to speed up the process. Inigo Montoya wanted to expedite the death of the man in black. “I do not suppose you coulda speed things up?” – Inigo Montoya Expedite comes from the Latin verb expedio, meaning, to loose, or to set...
