by Dwane | Nov 17, 2015 | Education, English, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Vocabulary
This week (and probably next week) my etymology students and I will study the Greek and Latin words for, well, word. I find it fascinating to take a look at every word we study in about ten different languages. All of these languages are somehow related to our very...
by Dwane | Oct 9, 2015 | Education, Latin
I received this comment: We love your home school products! I have a question about Visual Latin. My children and I completed the first 25 lessons and did the worksheets as we completed each lesson. We even took a few days in between some of the episodes to memorize...
by Dwane | Feb 20, 2015 | Education, English, German, Vocabulary
Sledding: the perfect disruption of productivity. It has snowed here in middle Tennessee for the first time in forever. I don’t mind, since the cold never bothered my anyway. My productivity, though, has plummeted. There are five kids living in my house, some...
by Dwane | Feb 6, 2015 | Education, German, Motivation
I received this comment: Hello Mr. Thomas (I almost called you Dwane because my class refer to you by that), I want to switch from learning Latin, scholastically, to German or Norwegian. The problem is that I don’t have a clue what resources would be good, other...
by Dwane | Sep 19, 2014 | Education, English
Fascinating article by John-Erik Jordan, a writer over at Babble languages. 139 Old Norse Words That Invaded The English Language When I say “Old English” what comes to mind? The ornate, hard-to-read script? Reading Beowulf in your high school English class? The kinds...
