by Dwane | Feb 7, 2018 | English
My mom recently sent this to me. Good luck learning English. I love our language… but, what a linguistic train wreck it is. Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds...
by Dwane | Jan 16, 2018 | English, Vocabulary
In our series, “Word Up: Live!” this morning, we looked at two English words. Here they are: Loquacious: talkative; garrulous; apt to blab and disclose secrets. Loquacious comes from the Latin verb loquor, meaning “I speak”. Here are a few example...
by Dwane | Dec 27, 2017 | English
As some of you know, I am running a ridiculous experiment. Late this year, I lost the ability (okay, okay… the will) to rise early. I wanted to pick the habit up once again but wasn’t quite certain how to motivate myself to do. So, I decided to...
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 | 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....
