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The internet brings spoken Latin back into classrooms
This article was originally written for the Iris publication of the Classics Association Victoria. The print version will come out in March 2022 at the annual conference. I will also be presenting a talk on incorporating spoken Latin in classrooms. Thanks to the internet age, we now have ways of teaching and learning Latin that…
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Aeneid poster for sale, and other merch!
I’ve opened a merch shop for Found in Antiquity, to support my YouTube channel and my work in creating more comprehensible input in Latin and Ancient Greek! Aeneid Poster I’ve just started adding products, but let me show you this pretty poster: These are the first 11 lines of the Aeneid, the epic poem about…
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A living Latin project: LingQ’s 60 Mini-Stories
2023 update: The first 10 mini-stories are finalised! Here are the links to all audio files: Would you be interested in partnering with us to translate 60 Mini-Stories into Latin? This is an open, Creative Commons project in which we have the ability to create adaptations, videos, and supporting materials without fear of infringing copyright,…
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How to boost your Latin acquisition up to 1200%
If language acquisition is driven by comprehensible input, we want to maximise the amount of input for our students. But how can we do this without overloading an already crowded curriculum and burdening students with extra tasks? We have to do less of some things in order to make room for better things. In this…
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A complete guide to Classical Latin pronunciation: the sounds of Golden Age Latin
I have now made a Classical Latin pronunciation series on Youtube! Check out the first three parts here: These videos are suitable for complete beginners and advanced students alike. I speak 100% in Latin, with no English in these videos. This means I make no verbal descriptions of the sounds or comparisons to any variety…
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Grammar Analysis scores don’t correlate with unseen translation ability
Some of the types of assessments Latin teachers have been traditionally setting are quite weird, the kind of things that aren’t normally done in any other languages. Consequently, it is hard to find recent research on whether what we are testing really matters. Perhaps one of the strangest things we do is Grammar Analysis, where…
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Why I’ve changed my mind on Comprehensible Input (but still can’t stand LLPSI)
I used to seriously question the Comprehensible Input method for learning ancient languages, but now I strongly recommend it as fully authentic and the best method for gaining reading fluency and becoming a lifelong learner of ancient languages. However, I still cannot bring myself to recommend the Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata textbook (LLPSI) as…
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When ‘comprehensible input’ is not enough
I’ve been on Latin reddit discussions for years and one single educational theory comes up again and again as if it were the only way to learn a language: Krashen and his comprehensible input hypothesis. Put simply, a learner should be introduced to the each feature of the language incrementally, by receiving input that contains…
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Getting better at teaching scansion
Previously, I had taught the scansion of dactylic hexameter by giving a lecture of the whole system then getting students to have a crack at it with a copy of Latin text – and with no macrons printed either. (I quickly learned not to use the opening of Aeneid 1 as the starter material, because…
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‘Palatina Medea’ or ‘Medea Palatina’? A preference for adjective-noun word order in Latin
We’ve been told that adjectives in Latin ‘tend to’ or ‘prefer to’ follow the nouns they describe. But on the contrary, the statistical evidence shows that Caesar and Cicero actually preferred putting adjectives before nouns. We didn’t learn that ‘noun then adjective’ rule from reading unadapted Latin. We didn’t discover it from real usage. We…
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