Textbooks
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Teaching With Shelmerdine, Introduction to Latin (Draft)
Kirsten Traudt Susan C. Shelmerdine’s Introduction to Latin: Second Edition provides a (mostly) full introduction to Latin which is aimed at students with little or no previous background in the language. Although it’s a “grammar-translation” style textbook, it also includes short readings adapted from Classical poetry and prose. Readings in the early chapters primarily discuss…
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A Brief History of Teaching Ancient Greek and Latin (Draft)
James F. Patterson A teacher should know not just how a topic is taught but why the topic is taught that way. It is therefore worth learning a bit about the history of teaching Ancient Greek (hereafter simply Greek unless otherwise qualified) and Latin. A classics scholar should find this unsurprising. Arguments today about the…
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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 (1) English definitions are so out-of-date or obscure that students need to look up the English in order to understand the definition.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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Ørberg, Lingua Latina
Text forthcoming. In the meantime, watch this: And read this: http://indwellinglanguage.com/reading-latin-extensively/
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