Expert

Expert: a person with a particular skill, special knowledge, or a person who knows a lot about a particular subject. Expert derives from the Latin expertus (tried, tested, proven by experience).  Expertus is the past participle of the verb experior (to test, to put to...

Diagramming Direct Objects

The next video in the English diagramming series is here! I am slowly working my way through the famous First Year Latin text by Robert Henle.  This is not my favorite Latin book (Lingua Latina, by Hans Orberg is.), but, I have quite a few students working their way...

How to diagram a subject and verb

In one of my online Latin classes, the First Year Henle Latin class, we take a grammatical approach to learning Latin.  Unfortunately, there is simply never enough time to cover all that we need to cover. With this in mind, I am launching a new Chalkboard series on...

Listen up!

You have already completed one language program.   You spent the first few years of your life listening to your parents.  Whether you knew it or not, you were enrolled in a language immersion school.   For the first few years of your life you slept – a lot.  You...

On the road again…

Guys, I will not be around today.  My grandfather turns 90 today.  I will spend much of the day driving to a party for him. While I am on the road, here is a repost.  Of course, if you have never read this… it is a new post. It is an answer to the most common...