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 | Sep 14, 2017 | Education, Vocabulary
I am willing to bet some of you woke up this morning wondering, “What is a hapax legomenon?” Fortunately, you subscribe to my blog. And, fortunately, a word loving friend of mine sent this article to me this morning. And, so, fortunately for you…...
by Dwane | Aug 24, 2017 | English, Latin, Vocabulary
I received this question: My son came across a problem on Visual Latin 1 Lesson 15. On the answer sheet it says that the word “feminam” means wife and “feminas” means wives but on the vocabulary list, it is not listed. It is listed as woman....
by Dwane | Aug 16, 2017 | Latin, Visual Latin, Vocabulary
I received this question: My question: my 10-year-old son and I are super enjoying VL1. You are a brilliant teacher. Now that we are on lesson 10 he has a lot of vocab words to memorize. He writes out the flash cards and reviews them almost daily. Are there any better...
by Dwane | Jul 28, 2017 | Education, English, Vocabulary
Years ago, I think in Surprised by Joy, I read about the English education of C.S. Lewis. Unfortunately, Evernote didn’t exist at the time. As a result, I can’t source what I am about to say. Anyway, at some point, and somewhere, I read about the...
by Dwane | May 23, 2017 | Education, Latin, Visual Latin, Vocabulary
I received this question: My daughter is enjoying her Latin study with your fun and engaging lessons. We bought the Visual Latin 2 printed course materials. We have not been able to find a place where there is a copy of all the latin vocab from volume 2 (lessons...
