Language Methods: Practice
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The Flow
It’s not difficult to argue that the biggest initial hurdle that native speakers of English have to overcome when learning Latin or Greek is the case system. In my experience, the most common problem-areas are: (1) English, of course, does not (99.999% of the time) use case, so the concept is entirely unfamiliar; (2) formal…
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Repetition with Modification
When practicing new grammar, it is best to work with sentences that isolate that grammar with minimal distraction from, e.g., new vocabulary or other complicated grammar. Textbooks often do not adequately isolate the new grammar in their practice sentences, thus dividing the student’s attention. When our students complete a lesson, we want them to incorporate…
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Fixing the Lexicon
As I see it, there are three big problems with the correspondences we make between the target language (Ancient Greek or Latin) and English. (1) English definitions are so out-of-date or obscure that students need to look up the English in order to understand the definition. Perhaps there was a time when immo vero could…
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