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just a tiny piece of the internet thoughts on the classics language linguistics and miscellanea just a tiny piece of the internet thoughts on the classics language linguistics and miscellanea search home about articles post navigation older posts cards on the table why i am so strongly opposed to grammar translate jun 14 i seriously struggled with latin when i was in high school i had an absolutely amazing teacher i realized that both then now as i go through my teacher training courses so i know that that definitely wasn t the problem i got nearly straight as in the class so clearly i was doing something right but when it came time to translate a chunk of latin i seriously had no idea what was going on it was like i was solving a giant puzzle and i had to figure out what setting of all the variables produced a sentence that made some sort of sense just by itself not even in context i ended up with complete word salad and was super inventive with rules i saw latin as a series of rules i had to manipulate until something vaguely comprehensible emerged sort of like a proof in logic it didn t occur to me until much later that latin was a language that people acquired and manipulated with ease and grace and without needing an advanced degree in linguistics continue reading 4 comments posted in academics education latin linguistics tagged classics education grammar grammar translate language latin linguistics prescriptivism reading method teaching why should we teach our students latin mar 24 this was originally written for a class but i think it also belongs here i hope you enjoy latin is a language dead as dead can be first it killed the romans now it s killing me latin though a vital part of western curriculum for the past 2000 years has lost significant ground in the classroom over the last century the schoolboy s poem i have quoted above explains why no one speaks latin anymore and now that nearly all literature science and philosophy are to be found in english latin is defunct 1 or at least it is perceived to be so because it is not a living language 2 continue reading 6 comments posted in academics classics education latin tagged classics education john dewey language latin neil postman teaching why do we teach latin and what role does grammar play in it jan 11 this is a question that has been on my mind a lot over the past year and is one of the main reasons why i have left my ma program at villanova to obtain my teaching cert at ursinus to address the first question i want to teach latin is because it opens students up to a field that offers a level of interdisciplinary study difficult to find elsewhere it can add depth and breadth to any student s interest let s say you re in 10th grade and like your science classes not only will studying latin expose you to some of the history of science and eventually enable you to read the texts in the original version and yes you do get a lot more out of a text by reading it in the original but you can also use science to study the classics continue reading leave a comment posted in academics classics education latin linguistics tagged classics college education grammar high school language latin teaching grammar translation vs reading methods in latin pedagogy dec 9 to create a dichotomy where there is not necessarily one i would like to ask my very small group of followers anyone who happens across this blog what they think about a grammar translate approach to teaching latin wheelock jenny s latin vs a reading based one orberg s lingua latina ecce romani i ll get to cambridge oxford latin course in a bit i will try to be unbiased in my descriptions of the two methods and as i understand them which may not be very well here are the pros and cons of each pros continue reading 8 comments posted in academics pedagogy and perseus does no dictionaries offer a better solution oct 7 i had just headed over to perseus to look up a greek verb i thought it looked like a 3rd s pres ind m p contract verb but i wanted to double check because verbs are definitely a weak point for me since perseus parses things for me i use it as a crutch all the time horrible of me i know on the home page there was a link to this article it doesn t say anything most of us who use perseus don t already know but it does make some valid points about the pedagogical aspects of letting latin students use it i know when i was learning latin i produced horrible horrible word salad largely because when i was in a rush i would use the click and scribble method to get my translations done on time actually it wasn t until i started using hans orberg s lingua latina as a summer study tool in college that i started producing anything coherent and started reading latin in any sort of natural way that being said my high school latin teacher was an absolute star and deserves every teaching award they give anyway two years ago i started tutoring insert shameless plug for elite tutors online inc and i was introduced to no dictionaries it does face some of the same problems as perseus as far as short definitions go but i like it because it encourages you to read the latin more naturally and it requires you to think about the grammar i e i wouldn t be able to cheat on the verb form i was looking up with perseus however whenever i m stuck on a bit of latin i still find myself running back to perseus so i can see what the answer is even though it might be incorrect at least it would be a plausible mistake i wouldn t be ashamed to make in class though this blog normally has a somewhat linguistics bent to it i have to admit that i m really more interested in second language acquisition and the teaching of non spoken languages i wonder if anyone has any thoughts on the pedagogical merits faults of either of these two online tools and what they think might offer a better solution also go check out this blog where there are two articles that i am aware of about online tools for latin students nodictionaries com wictionary whitacker s 2 comments posted in academics classics education latin tagged latin nodictionaries online tools pedagogy perseus second language acquisition whitaker s words an unhealthy obsession with w and its pronunciation in latin sep 29 oh hello there it has be a very long time since i ve been around but with good reason i ve gotten a new apartment with my wonderful boyfriend and i ve been starting up my life as a student and grad assistant at villanova i thought as a returning to my blog post i would write about my favorite linguistic topic w continue reading 4 comments posted in academics classics latin linguistics tagged allophone claudian letters inversed digamma latin linguistics phoneme sound changes w museum of classical archaeology at cambridge jul 15 life s been a bit dull since i handed in my thesis which went very well but it was broken by the pleasant opportunity to give a tour of the cast gallery the most visible part of the museum of classical archaeology at cambridge the cast gallery is nestled above the foyer of the classics faculty and is really pretty awesome i have to admit though pretty awesome was not how i first thought of the cast gallery i think my thoughts continue reading 2 comments posted in archaeology classics education tagged ancient culture art history cambridge classical archaeology classical art history classics greece museum rome housekeeping jun 26 yesterday i went through and edited all of my posts so there were continue reading links on all of them i hope this makes scrolling through article easier and makes older articles accessible it also helps me see which articles people actually read because homepage doesn t really tell me much i also added an articles page where i ve placed the links to all of the articles i ve suggested in various posts and i added a blogroll on the right if you have a classics linguistics academia or education themed blog that you d like me to check out and maybe post there send me a link in the comments i may have missed a few also i d like to apologize if i accidentally spammed your inbox i found out a few hours later to my horror that every time i added a continue reading tag to a post publicize spread the word for me a bit over enthusiastic on its part but i should have thought about the possibility beforehand so if you were inundated by piece of the internet notifications yesterday i do heartily apologize leave a comment posted in academics you keep using that word i do not think it means what you think it means inigo montoya jun 25 finishing my thesis and viva means that i now spend obscene amounts of time reading silly things on the internet it also means that i spend many of my nights out having fun and then i write my blog while hungover the following morning in short i apologize for another post about a linguistic point from a humor site this is an article from cracked com from 2007 9 words that don t mean what you think it lists 9 words that are extreme or very visible examples of relatively recent semantic shift except for 1 irregardless 1 which my spell check doesn t even correct of course semantic shift is a known phenomenon and once the change is continue reading 2 comments posted in academics education linguistics tagged etymology grammar humor language linguistics prescriptivism semantics writing fighting the inner presciptivist with xkcd jun 18 i ve been reading xkcd comics for about 6 years religiously i have in fact read every single one of them because like a dork when i first started reading them i did the catching up on a new webcomic thing and went through the archives though randall claims his is a webcomic of romance sarcasm math and language it s probably safe to say that language isn t often a topic however in all those years he has never posted a single thing about language that immediately made me think this is wrong however today s comic did continue reading leave a comment posted in 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