The accusative case is tricky to teach. It is usually one of the first pieces of grammar a student encounters that is radically different from English. The students at this stage are often very young and not great at processing wordy technical explanations. 1/10

I am often asked what resources I recommend to parents of young children wanting to teach Latin to their little ones. I am glad to say these picture story books are now available from the University of Dallas website k12classical.udallas.edu/shop/?fbclid... (Photo by author Jessica McCormack) 1/7

In language teaching there is hot debate over whether correcting a student's use of the target language is helpful or discouraging. Here's one interesting piece of data: users of the Latin & Greek Discord can self-assign a tag to indicate if they want to be corrected or not. 1/8

Remember the part of the bible with a giant horde of skeleton zombies? I read an illustrated and tiered story of the vision of Ezekiel and the Valley of Dry Bones here! 💀 This includes a simplified Latin version plus the original text from the Vulgate! youtu.be/jQ4J31R2j1c 1/2

Would you rather a single humanities scholar discovered & published new knowledge that gets read by only a few, or that a large section of the general population all collectively read, understood & appreciated one more thing that is currently only appreciated by scholars? 1/3

My Latin YouTube channel just passed 10,000 subscribers! Gratias vobis ago! Thank you so much everyone for your support of my learner-friendly Latin content. May we continue to make Latin more comprehensible and fun to learn for everyone!

A diagram from a dictionary of how time of the day and night is conceptualised in classical Roman times. The day is divided into 12 equal hours, starting with the first hour, while the night is in four watches. (Image credit to Taiara Peter, Learning Latin Facebook group.) 1/4

A lovely piece of evidence of baby talk from Ancient Rome, Varro (ap. Non. 81, 4), babies had their own words for not just Mummy (mamma) and Daddy (tata), but also food and drink. "cum cibum ac potionem buas ac papas vocent, matrem mammam, patrem tatam" 1/3

It was great to be on this podcast! We talked about tiered readers, appropriate challenge, sheltering vs unsheltering, overcoming non-linguistic challenges to reading ancient texts and more!

Have a free tiered Latin fable, Lupus et Agnus ('The Wolf and the Lamb')! It's a sample poem from my Phaedrus project, The Beasts of Rome: A Tiered Reader of Phaedrus Fables I. foundinantiquity.com/thebeastsofr... More info below! 1/3

Speaking of sets, do you know about Claudius, Boy of Rome?!? Encyclopedia Britannica used the FORE sets to make a short (16 min) docu-drama about a boy in Ancient Rome, complete with Latin dialogue!! An underated masterpiece I show students every year! youtu.be/0Abhgr9LFCo?...

I'm going to be sharing a free sample poem from my Phaedrus' fables tiered reader soon - stay tuned for the wolf and the lamb in 3 tiers!