by Dwane | Mar 28, 2015 | Education, Latin, Uncategorized, Visual Latin
I received this question: “My girls are working on Visual Latin 1 this year and enjoying it. I’m a little worried about next year and VL 2 as they are mostly following but I am noticing it getting a bit harder for them. If they enrolled in one of your...
by Dwane | Mar 27, 2015 | Visual Latin
I received this correction today: “You haven’t heard from us in awhile. 🙂 You might have updated this since our last download, but Natalie and Spencer just finished taking test LIV. #28 is marked on the answer key as being C. to come. Natalie thinks it...
by Dwane | Mar 27, 2015 | Visual Latin
A student tipped me off to a mistake today. In Visual Latin, test 55, question 36, the answer should be eagle, not bird. 36. Aquila A) bird B) osprey C) eagle D) hawk I wrote these tests and quizzes during a writing marathon weekend. I got tired....
by Dwane | Mar 24, 2015 | Latin, Q&A, Visual Latin
If you are learning Latin or teaching your children Latin, and you feel overwhelmed, do not despair. You should feel overwhelmed. Latin is tough. In fact, it is tougher than you think it is. If you are learning Latin, you are climbing one of the toughest academic...
by Dwane | Mar 24, 2015 | Ebook, Education, Latin, Visual Latin
“The language which diffused throughout the provinces of the empire was not the classical Latin of Tom Brown’s schooldays. It was the Latin spoken by the common people. Ever since Latin had become a literary language (in the third century B.C.) there...
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...
