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Historical greek pronunciation on google maps

You don't like very much the Erasmian or reconstructed pronunciation ?

Do you prefer the Greek historical pronunciation, but you are not sure if you can use it in your classes, because you think you'll be the only one?

Or maybe, you think your students would have some troubles learning Ancient Greek wiht this system?

Other teachers already use it normally.

Have a look into this…

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Added by santi on January 1, 2011 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Learning Latin with Comenius

Comenius arranged his course in a gradated series:

1. The Vestibulum, with an associated grammar for beginners

1a. The Orbis Sensualium Pictus - an amplified form of the Vestibulum.

2. The Janua Linguarum, with an associated grammar and lexicon.

3. The Janua Linguarum Aurea, with an associated grammar and colloquia.

4. The Atrium, with an associated grammar.

5. A Lexicon wholly in Latin.

How could the student use this…

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Added by Latinum Institute on December 20, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

Latinum Update

Update on usage of the various free Latin resources from Latinum.

Cursum Latinum,

This site started to broadcast in August 2010 on YouTube, and now has 1,768 subscribers. To date there have been 173,649 individual upload views of videos.

Latinum…

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Added by Latinum Institute on December 17, 2010 at 7:23am — No Comments

Latin Language Education - Historical Outline of a Method.

A historical perspective on Latin/Greek teaching : Evan der Millner This topic is a very wide ranging one – and a brief essay such as this, can only hope to cover the subject giving the barest of outlines. In this essay, I will mainly concern myself with what could be called the Rudiments of language education. I will also point out that some 'new' methods are actually not new at all. We are fortunate in knowing rather a lot about how the Romans went about teaching their…

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Added by Latinum Institute on December 17, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments

$125,000 Salary for Master LATIN Middle School Teachers

Earn a $125,000 salary and join a team of master teachers at The Equity Project (TEP) Charter School, recently featured on the front page of the New York Times: (http://www.tepcharter.org/nytimes.php).

TEP is a 480-student 5th through 8th grade middle school in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. Applications are currently being accepted for teaching positions in LATIN, Math, Science, English, Social Studies,…

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Added by tepcharter on December 10, 2010 at 1:42pm — No Comments

ELECTIO REGIM /HISTORIA TERRARUM SLAVORUM/

ELECTIO REGIM

/HISTORIA TERRARUM SLAVORUM/

Tronus fuit in centrum regiam.

Totas tribus praesenta fuit.

Unus maior natu dehiscat duos cavos in duos lateralis tronis, qua vespae sedunt liberandus illas.

Triumviri observant supra quem regina vespas sedebit, decendus orationem pro Trionis.

Regina vespas, serva Fortunam, descernet, qui sanguinum…

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Added by Ivan Petryshyn on November 28, 2010 at 12:32pm — No Comments

Cursum Latinum revisited

A few months back, as an offshoot of Schola, I started a second interactive site, the Universitas Scholarium.

I had the germ of an idea - to recreate a germ of a Renaissance Learning Community, in Latin, covering the breadth of subjects that would have been covered, plus some modern ones.

That site died when NING went behind its paywall, although funds were found to keep SCHOLA alive.

The idea sat on the back burner.…

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Added by Latinum Institute on October 22, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Words

The first time a word is encountered, it needs a quick translation, or ,better, a picture or a gestural explanation, especially if it is somewhat abstract.

After that, the brain must be left alone to build its own semantic web for that word. This is a chaotic process, with constant revisions taking place, with meanings constantly shifting and adjusting. Authors can use words in subtly different ways. This cannot really be captured by a translation. It is akin to the method new words… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on October 14, 2010 at 6:20am — 5 Comments

The idea of Europe

Europe, and European civilisation? Where lies its heart? It lies in the Rome of Caesar, the Rome of Cicero. From the fall of the Roman Empire, until the edges of living memory, the throb of the culture of Rome was the heartbeat of European civilisation. Alongside it, beat the secondary hearts of the Church and the Synagogue – but it was Rome that provided the cultural lifeblood of secular Europe.

In the… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on October 9, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Online classics at the University of Connecticut

Salvete! I'm excited to update some information I posted a while back about the University of Connecticut's Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies program's online offerings.

This spring I'll be offering an online advanced Greek course, CAMS 3101 Topics in Advanced Greek, for three credits, on selections from Plato. The course will be offered in a game-based format, in which students will participate as senior operatives on a mission to infiltrate the Academy and discover the… Continue

Added by Roger Travis on October 8, 2010 at 11:13am — No Comments

English Commentary

I came across an interesting editorial today in an edition of Horace - in which the author, writing a translation of the Delphin commentary on Horace, felt the need to explain himself,and effectively, apologise for writing a commentary in English, and not in Latin.

This edition, however, has a very useful Latin paraphrase running alongside the original Latin text, which could be useful to teachers teaching Horace.

This, only in 1832.

By this stage, Latin was no longer being… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on October 6, 2010 at 5:00am — 3 Comments

Memorisation

repititio mater studiorum.

Almost all the Renaissance writers on language learning emphasise the importance of memorising chunks of text - Vives advocates memorising at least a line night.

The benefit of this is that the student has paradigms internalised, to draw on at will. If a student is going to compose poetry, or read poetry with ease, without having to scan, then knowing a selection of poems off by heart, with their metrical structures, would also be… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on October 5, 2010 at 4:30am — No Comments

Audio Visual Course

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Added by Latinum Institute on October 2, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Cursum Latinum

Over the summer, I have been working on an Audio Visual Latin Course, that is grammar intensive, yet teaches Latin through only using Latin. I have called this the Cursum Latinum, to tie in with the Latinum podcast.

The course is aimed at complete beginners, who speak any… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on September 28, 2010 at 4:45am — No Comments

Over-analysis and performance

I was reading this article today, by a psychologist on the 'choking' mechanism that can reduce performance, and I think the same argument can be applied to language study - and to Latin in particular. OK,it does not appear to be totally 'hard science', but the general position is evidence based:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100925120110.htm

Most people I know who try to speak Latin,… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on September 28, 2010 at 4:09am — No Comments

alphabetum graecum

Οur network Alphabetum graecum it's going to disappear.

But you can yet contribute to the question of greek pronunciation at the namesake collaborative web, if you think historical greek pronunciation it's necessary.

Χάριταϛ ὑμῖν ἔχω!

Added by santi on August 22, 2010 at 6:46am — No Comments

Operation LAPIS: first-year Latin as an RPG inside an ARG

I thought it might be of interest to some here that together with a wonderful team of like-minded classicists, educational psychologists, and a coder or two, we'll be launching what we believe is the first-ever practomimetic (game-based) introductory language course.

More at my blog, Living Epic, if your interest is piqued. We'd love to hear from you if you'd like to help iterate, as they say in the game… Continue

Added by Roger Travis on August 16, 2010 at 8:24am — No Comments

YoLink: Search Enhancement Tool

YoLink is a search enhancement tool that allows you to search behind links.
"Less time searching, more time finding."
You can add it to your blog or school site.
http://www.yolinkeducation.com/education/resources.jsp
This site also has links to other ED TECH Sites.

Added by Zee Ann Poerio on August 8, 2010 at 11:17am — No Comments

Titio! Tweeting in and for Latin via Twitter

Twitter is another ubiquitous Web 2.0 communication tool enabling users to "tweet" (post) updates in 140 characters (or less). Some would argue that Martial was the first person to tweet even though Twitter would not be invented until nearly 2,000 years after his death. For users of Twitter, there are those who tweet, those who follow (subscribe to those who tweet), and those who do both. Classicists have gotten into Twitter, too, and some are even using it… Continue

Added by Andrew Reinhard on July 26, 2010 at 9:28am — 1 Comment

translation

I was curious how a lot of 19th century textbooks dealt with the difference between the praetereunte /imperfect and praeterito/perfect: I found translations that distinguished between them, while not ( to my ear) signifying a great difference in meaning: namely I loved for the imperfect, and I have loved for the praeterito. I had loved for the antepraeterito.

To my ear I 've eaten dinner, and I ate dinner are almost indistinguishable - using these methods to render the tenses in… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on July 26, 2010 at 5:59am — 2 Comments