by Dwane | Aug 22, 2014 | Latin
I received this question today: I am currently lesson planning Visual Latin I for my HS sophomore. Your VL/Lingua Latina schedule does not begin combining the two until lesson 17 or so, but your sample Week 12 lesson already has the student doing chapter 2 of Lingua...
by Dwane | Aug 22, 2014 | Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Abstain: to withhold oneself; to refrain from voluntarily; to refrain from indulgence. I attempted to abstain from chocolate and coffee once. Ah… to be young and foolish again. Abstain comes from Latin ab (away) and tenere (to hold).
by Dwane | Aug 21, 2014 | Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Absent: gone, not there, not present physically, or not present mentally. Absent derives from Latin absunt, which means, they are not here. Absunt itself derives from Latin ab (away) and the infinitve esse (to be). With the condition of American schools these days,...
by Dwane | Aug 21, 2014 | Ebook, Education, Latin
Recently, I received this question: I have a 17 year old daughter who has done Visual Latin through lesson 45, but hasn’t read Lingua Latina. She is planning on finishing through lesson 50. I noticed your on line classes use the book along with the DVD. I was...
by Dwane | Aug 20, 2014 | Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Abrasion: A scrape. Fall off of a bicycle and you may end up with an abrasion. Abrasion can also be the act of wearing or rubbing off. For example: The constant abrasion of chairs left scratches on the hardwood floors. Abrasion come from the Latin word abradere,...
by Dwane | Aug 19, 2014 | Education, Latin, ScreenCasts
Online students… one of you asked today about liberi, libero, and liber. Here is the answer: http://youtu.be/KTTzZE1PoSI
