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April 2008 Blog Posts (22)

Catulle Horatique, avete atque valete?

A recent email from the College Board:

Dear Colleague:

The College Board views the support of world language and culture programs as one of our highest priorities. As a not-for-profit organization, we are committed to keeping student exam fees reasonable, so we will continue to bear a considerable financial loss annually to provide schools with AP world language offerings.

During the next several years, we will significantly increase our… Continue

Added by Matthew Moore on April 4, 2008 at 6:58am — No Comments

Trends in teaching Latin

It is always fascinating to hear of people talk about trends in teaching Latin - particularly when this is aimed at the idea of teaching Latin as a modern language would be taught. Adler's huge textbook for conversational spoken Latin was written in the mid 1800's - at over 700 pages of dense text in a small typeface. A more comprehensive book of conversational Classical Latin has yet to be written.

I have before me another remarkable trendy little book by WHS Jones, (1905) called… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on April 1, 2008 at 6:44pm — No Comments