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Devac  ·  1329 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 28, 2021

Home is starting to look homely. Taking the rest of the week off because of epic muscle soreness.

I'm kinda annoyed with how classical languages are taught. There's practically no effort directed at conversation, which, sure, I'm not gonna meet any Romans, but that's how people acquire languages better. Nobody teaches introductory Spanish or German by forcing down tables of terminations with intention of translating Cervantes or Goethe by the end of the year, at least nobody who retains students, so why is Latin and Greek so often stuck in the XIXth century? Rethorical question, at least mostly, but a real problem. Right now, I'm mostly using YouTube (he also has two Greek playlists), and wait for my copies of Lingua Latina per se Illustrata and Alexandros to arrive.