Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Sic incipit.

Can't believe I'm doing this. Okay. Here goes.

What I'm liking right now in my class is that every time they get me to say: "Rem acu tetigisti!" they get a "buck." Man! They truly love those bucks. Latina Prima gets semunciae, Quinta gets denarii, and Sexta gets aureae. (Magister has the others.)

Sum asina. Videtur mihi lux per me lucet, ubi de meo die loquor.

I know, know, know that they will do better if I speak in Latin. It's so hard in the levels I teach! Or is this just a fallback that I play with? I know that I should be speaking all Latin at the upper levels. But it's so much FASTER in English! I can download everything I know about the ablative absolute with notes I've had for a decade on transparencies, and ecce! omnes de hoc sciunt! Seriously, they are good notes.

I know that I should do a TPRS story. I know that I should do Substitutions. It's so fun to do that. I could bring in so much. Sed, timeo! Non habeo tempus! Non habeo tempus!

Annula dixit, "Sali modo." Nolo salire!! Timeo salire!

Maybe later, more about the bucks. I'm determined that this be stream of consciousness.

And, in my first post, let me advise: comment away. But this is no ordinary blog. I'm forcing this activity on myself re vera propter petasum meum.


4 comments:

  1. Ita. Sine dubio. Modo fac, iterum interumque. Potes. Magnifice potes. Et, scribe notas novas de ablativo absoluto, sed Latine, et decem annos novos per eos doce! Cur? Quod potes. Sine dubio. Potes. Et, potes amore, calliditate, et habitu. Tu es magistra optima!

    Te amo,
    Robertus Patricius

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  2. Love you Mama! Have fun entering the blogging world!!

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  3. Latine dicendum est!



    Quoque ego tantum Latine loqui coepi.

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  4. I love the name. (Trellace translated for me.) It's perfect. Just perfect.

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