by Dwane | Nov 19, 2016 | Education, Latin
Not long ago, while I was working online, an advertisement popped up. It posed a simple question. “Which Latin author do you prefer?” The advertisement, in the form of a survey, gave four choices. I could choose Cicero, Ceasar, Virgil, or Livy. I prefer none of...
by Dwane | Nov 1, 2016 | Education, Latin
This is from the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. I am in complete agreement. ================================================== I have already mentioned that I had only one year’s instruction in a Latin School, and that when very young, after which I...
by Dwane | Oct 19, 2016 | Education, Latin
I received this inquiry: I am contacting you because my grandson, who is good at languages, is thinking of giving up latin because he says it is too difficult. Really I think he is bored with having to learn lists of vocabulary etc Obviously we are in the UK but given...
by Dwane | Oct 11, 2016 | Latin
I received this question: I want to ask you for some guidance with Henle Latin and my (our) student. She is doing really well at translating Latin into English. However, when we go English to Latin, she consistently gets endings wrong (although she usually has the...
by Dwane | Oct 5, 2016 | Education, Italian, Latin, Motivation, Visual Latin
I received this question: I have a question about your Latin course. My daughter is 14 and she has just started an online Latin course that uses Wheelock’s Latin. She is having a very hard time with it, there seems to be an overwhelming amount of information in...
