Oh, C’mon.

by | Sep 5, 2015 | Education, English, German, Grammar, Latin

I received this email: Yesterday, a tutor talked to the parents about the importance of reviewing English grammar no matter what language they are studying.   She told us that our kids can’t give the ‘logical’ grammar terms. For example, verbs...

Thee, Thou, and all that (Part 2)

by | May 21, 2015 | Education, English, German, Spanish

Yesterday, I blogged about the English pronoun “you.” Here is part of the post: Often you will hear people say things like, “I can’t read the King James Version of the Bible.  I get tired of the formal ‘thee’s’ and ‘thou’s.’” Funny thing is, those...

After Visual Latin?

by | Feb 27, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, German, Latin, Visual Latin

I received this inquiry: “If we strive for passing the NLE Level 2, which I am hope translates to a level 2 language equivalent in French, Spanish, etc (?), what additional materials may be necessary, if any, once a student has completed your Lesson 60? I have...

Sledding

by | Feb 20, 2015 | Education, English, German, Vocabulary

Sledding: the perfect disruption of productivity. It has snowed here in middle Tennessee for the first time in forever.  I don’t mind, since the cold never bothered my anyway. My productivity, though, has plummeted.  There are five kids living in my house, some...

German

by | Feb 6, 2015 | Education, German, Motivation

I received this comment: Hello Mr. Thomas (I almost called you Dwane because my class refer to you by that), I want to switch from learning Latin, scholastically, to German or Norwegian. The problem is that I don’t have a clue what resources would be good, other...