by Dwane | Nov 14, 2017 | Latin, Online Classes, Visual Latin
I received this question: My daughter is taking your visual Latin year one. According to the syllabus, it says that in lesson 10 to start reading one chapter in lingua Latina every two visual Latin lessons. Would you please describe what this looks like or give me an...
by Dwane | Nov 10, 2017 | Education, Latin, Online Classes
Even though John Gotto wrote this, “Who wouldn’t get bored teaching students who are rude and interested only in grades?” and even though I agree with him, what am I to do? Incidentally, I don’t deal with very many rude students. But on a daily...
by Dwane | Nov 8, 2017 | English, Latin, Vocabulary
Many of my students often have the misconception that all languages, including English, come from Latin. Nope. Not true. A lot of languages come from Latin, but English is not one of them. English is a Germanic language. We have borrowed a ton of vocabulary from...
by Dwane | Nov 7, 2017 | Latin
In Lingua Latina class today, we learned about the ancient Roman villa. Here are some videos/virtual tours of typical Roman villas of the first century A.D. (One of my students found these. Thanks, Julia!) This first one is my personal favorite: A cut-away view: A...
by Dwane | Nov 3, 2017 | Italian, Latin
I am currently teaching myself Italian (and loving it). Here a native Italian speaker talks about the difference between Latin and Italian pronunciations....
by Dwane | Oct 23, 2017 | Education, Latin, Online Classes
Students are often confused by the multiple forms of “because” in Latin. A student posted the following helpful explanation in the forums: ================================================= I think I have figured out the difference between: “quia, quod,...
