Tip of the Week

I’ve been studying languages for over 20 years.  Along the way, I’ve picked up some tips and tricks.  Sign up for the “Tip of the Week” and, every Saturday, I’ll send it straight to your inbox. Of course, if you don’t want another email in your bulging inbox, you can...

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...

Henle’s First Year Latin

This year, I am taking a team of students through First Year Latin, by Robert Henle.  We set out to read the book in two years.  As we read, however, I am realizing it would be better to speed up.  We need to read the book in one year.  Better to rip a band-aid off in...

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...