Tip of the Week #290: How to Learn Latin Quickly

I have been teaching Latin for almost three decades.    People often ask me, “If I want to learn Latin, how should I do it?  To quote Hades’ minions in the movie Hercules, “If.  If is good.”   The truth is, you do not have to learn Latin.  Do not let people bully you...

What happened to the Tip of the Week?

For about a decade, I sent out a “Tip of the Week”. Sometimes the “Tip of the Week” was something I found helpful for language study.   Often, it was just something I found helpful.  It could be about any topic, really. About a month ago, ...

Tip of the Week #287: How to Track and Save Money

For a long time, to track our spending, I used Mint as a budgeting app. A month, or so, ago, Mint phased out.  (I honestly do not know where to place the commas in that sentence.) In my quest for a replacement, I stumbled upon Rocket Money. The truth is, my wife...

Tip of the Week #284: Dreaming Spanish

Like never before, I am attempting to level up in Spanish.  Compass classroom and I want to produce some thing like Visual Latin, for Spanish. It’s been a dream for sometime. Unfortunately, my Spanish skills are the hold up.  I still have a much to learn. One...