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“Latin autodidacts, you’re working way too hard!” – How to learn Latin by yourself in 2023
I started writing this essay, which grew to over 16,000 words, with the goal of explaining ‘how to learn Latin on a budget in 2023: the most cost-effective autodidact strategies’. But during its month-long writing process, the essay turned into ‘how not to be deceived by well-meaning but terrible language learning advice’. Since both your…
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Comparison table of self-paced communicative Latin courses
TL;DR? Click here to jump straight to the table without any preamble. We’ve had a look at the options for taking live online Latin classes in 2023, but what if the pressure of keeping up with a cohort of students is not best suited to you? What if you need something more flexible to your…
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Comparison table of Online Communicative Latin Classes
TL;DR? Click here to jump straight to the table without any preamble. In the last decade, even before the pandemic, we’ve seen an increase in the number of adult learning programs which teach Latin via natural methods through online classes. Shall we say, there’s been a boom of Latin taught on Zoom. These programs are…
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Thoughts about practically implementing SSR (Sustained Silent Reading)
I posted this on the Latin teacher facebook group, Latin Best Practices: The Next Generation in Comprehensible Input, talking informally about the kinds of problems I’ve come across in my first year of implementing Sustained Silent Reading (SSR), a reading activity where you allow students to select a novella of their choice and read it…
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Christmas Story lesson activities
Last year I made a Latin video in which I retold the Christmas nativity story in Latin using pictures from a picture storybook. (The version below is told in Classical pronunciation, but I also made an Ecclesiastical version in case that was your school’s preferred pronunciation.) Now I’ve made a sequence of lesson activities for…
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Why the Cult of the One True Textbook Has to Stop
The following is a transcript of my long-form video essay, “Why the Cult of the One True Textbook Has to Stop”. In short, if we truly care about improving language pedagogy, we have to stop worshiping Ørberg. Salvēte omnēs, ego sum Magistra Hurt. I am one of the most vocal critics of the Nature Method…
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4 Interactive Writing Activities More Beneficial Than the Dreaded ‘Latin Prose Composition’
Update: Here are the takeway points in this article, distilled into a YouTube video: If you want to practice your Latin writing skills, is it still worth the drudgery to work through an old-fashioned course in “Latin Prose Composition”, or are there more enjoyable and effective alternatives? This is the question I ponder frequently while…
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Launching a new Ancient Greek YouTube channel
As I’ve been making more Ancient Greek language videos on my Latin channel, it has become increasingly clear that it is best if these Greek videos have their own home on a dedicated channel for Ancient Greek content. So now I’m launching a new channel for Ancient Greek comprehensible input – Found in Antiquity: Ancient…
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12 Reasons why Latinists are not learning Ancient Greek
Are all Latin enthusiasts also engaged with learning Ancient Greek, and vice versa? The poll results are in, and while there’s an overlap, there are also big segments that loyally stick to just one of the languages. In this post, I will investigate why not everyone learns both Latin and Ancient Greek, focusing in particular…
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The Gospel of Matthew, Greek audiobook in Lucian
I’m creating a Creative Commons audiobook of the Gospel of Matthew, narrated in the original Ancient Greek language, using Lucian Koine Greek pronunciation. Audio and video materials I am making YouTube video versions of the audiobook chapters, with text synced to the narration. Here is the full YouTube playlist. In addition, the audio files for…
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