by Dwane | Mar 23, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Italian, Latin, Visual Latin, Vocabulary
So, I have run out of “equus” words. The Latin word “equus” was not the everyday word for horse. Instead, equus was the classical word for horse. The average Roman citizen in the street had a completely different word, caballus. There is a dirty little secret...
by Dwane | Mar 7, 2015 | Education, Italian, Latin, Motivation, Tip of the Week, Travel
Think Outside the Border Tip #10 – Who wants to learn Italian? According to Frederick Bodmer, in his book, The Loom of Language, French, Spanish, and Italian derive directly from Latin. “The deeper we delve into the past, the more French, Spanish, and...
by Dwane | Mar 7, 2015 | Ebook, Education, Italian, Latin
The deeper we delve into the past, the more French, Spanish, and Italian converge. Finally, they become one in Latin, or, to be more accurate, in Vulgar Latin as spoken by the common people in the various parts of the Western Roman Empire. – Frederick Bodmer,...
by Dwane | Feb 4, 2015 | Education, English, German, Italian, Latin, Tip of the Week, Visual Latin
Hey, everyone! I will be talking here about one of my favorite subjects in a few weeks. So… you know… if you have nothing to do for Valentines… http://www.ihomeschoolstudio.com/2015/01/06/foreign-language/
by Dwane | Jan 24, 2015 | Education, English, Greek, Italian, Latin, Vocabulary
The verb porto, in Latin means, to carry or, to bring. In all its glory, the verb is: porto, portare, portavi, portatum. English pulls quite a few words out of this particular Latin hat. Before we get to that, however, let’s take a look at the way Romance...
by Dwane | Aug 30, 2014 | Education, English, Italian, Spanish, Vocabulary
A cheval: by horse; on horseback. In mountaineering, à cheval is a climbing method. The climber straddles the ridge, placing hands on the crest of the ridge. From the French phrase à cheval (on horseback). The French phrase derives from the Latin caballus (horse,...
