Aesop's Fables... in Latin!
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Thanks so much for your note, Neill! The Internet really is amazing: when I was a graduate student, I hoarded big piles of Latin stuff in notebooks... but now we can share stuff online for free - it really is a different world, especially for people…
Hi Laura. So far, so good. It always seems like each semester is a big fly wheel. It takes some effort to get it started and then once it's spinning it runs pretty well. I'm doing some review for Clayton and Caroline, before we begin book 2. But, my…
Hi Neill! How is your new semester going??? We just finished our third week at the University of Oklahoma, and now that I've finally got those classes humming along smoothly, I hope to be getting back into some more Latin projects again, whoo-hoo! :…
I am looking forward to starting the new school year. I will be using "Latin is Fun" book 2 with my 13 y/o son and 11 y/o daughter. It worked well for them last year. They were able to work through it pretty much by themselves last year and on Frida…
Hi Neill, I am so glad you liked it! That rhyming proverb I put at the end is medieval, since the medieval were so fond of rhyme - and I am too! The ant and the grasshopper is one of those fables that is still very famous and my students all resonat…
Just finished reading this on Tar Heel reader with my 8 yr. old. Wow Laura, you did such a great job on the the pictures, the repetition, and the vocabulary level. I was glad to see the link at the end to the vocabulary page too. I am very excited a…
Hi Neill, my favorite source for etymologies online is the very nifty etymonline.com site, which has this for suffrage; I'm not sure what a suffragan bishop does, but "prayers or pleas on behalf of another" definitely sounds like it comes from the e…
I have been wondering how we got suffragan bishop to suffragette, and how does frangor relate to all this?
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- At 12:29am on December 23, 2008,
Laura Gibbs said…
- Ha ha, that's where we need FOLK etymologies, in addition to the linguistically defensible ones: gurus are groovy!
Alas, though, the Etymology Online Dictionary says that "groovy" is out of date by 1980s. Oh no!!! :-)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=groove
- At 8:25pm on December 18, 2008,
Laura Gibbs said…
- Ah, Sanskrit...!!! Guru is indeed a Sanskrit word and - get this! - it is etymologically related to gravis in Latin: a guru is someone who is "weighty" - someone with gravitas as Latin would put it! :-)
- At 9:01am on December 18, 2008,
Laura Gibbs said…
- Hi Neill, I've started in on my vocabulary-building notes over at Verbosum, and I decided to start with the bundus suffix, since you had mentioned it here (plus, it's one of my favorites!). Here is the post:
Adjectives from -bundus, -cundus
- At 12:33pm on December 4, 2008,
Laura Gibbs said…
- Hi Neill! That is one of the things I like about later Latin writers - they are not shy to use words that are not purely classical (they were exposed to a whole range of Latin usage that is really beyond our wildest dreams these days - Latin was a dead language but very much a part of religious and political discourse in Europe well into the 17th century; it was familiar to them, and not just through Cicero).
You are exactly right about the formation of sitibundus - and of course we have "moribund" as a marvelous English word to remind us of this marvelous Latin suffix. These are the kinds of things I will be posting at the Ning here - I am not entirely persuaded about the whole English-vocabulary building thing, but I love learning about Latin word formation, and -bundus is a very productive suffix, and well represented in Barlow's Aesop (it fits with the hyperbolic extremity of Aesop's little plots, after all, where characters and their motivations are not exactly subtle, ha ha).
Anyway, now that the galleys are FINALLY away to the printer, and the academic semester is almost over, I can start adding here all the stuff that would not fit in the printed book - audio, Latin word formation, questions prompts, quizzes, etc. That, for me, is the really fun stuff.
:-)
- At 9:05pm on December 2, 2008,
Laura Gibbs said…
- Wow, Neill, it is so nice to meet another fan of Oerberg! It is absolutely my favorite of the Latin textbooks out there! I hope you will find these fables to be good reading - I am a big fan of fables because they are "chunks" of prose with a clear starting point and a clear stopping point so you can say to yourself, "euge! omnia intellexi!" and then go on to the next story. That's also why I like proverbs so much - they come in even smaller chunks than the fables.
Oh look, we are sort-of neighbors - I'm in Timberlake NC! :-)
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New Semester
I am looking forward to starting the new school year. I will be using "Latin is Fun" book 2 with my 13 y/o son and 11 y/o daughter. It worked well for them last year. They were able to work through it pretty much by themselves last year and on Fridays we would go over the chapter and work on things that were a problem.
I really am a fan of Dr. Traupman. He and Oerberg rock. They are in the Latin pan(demi)theon along with Laura Gibbs, Rose Williams and the others.
I really am a fan of Dr. Traupman. He and Oerberg rock. They are in the Latin pan(demi)theon along with Laura Gibbs, Rose Williams and the others.
Posted on August 26, 2009 at 4:44pm — 3 Comments
Formica et Cicada
Just finished reading this on Tar Heel reader with my 8 yr. old. Wow Laura, you did such a great job on the the pictures, the repetition, and the vocabulary level. I was glad to see the link at the end to the vocabulary page too. I am very excited about this resource and very thankful for wonderful teachers like you who make it available. Whole courses could be taught just using these stories and TPRS methods. By the way, we had real fun reading the story. Austin's "homework" is to memorize the… Continue
Posted on July 24, 2009 at 1:58pm — 1 Comment
Etymological musing
I have been wondering how we got suffragan bishop to suffragette, and how does frangor relate to all this?
Posted on May 22, 2009 at 11:19am — 2 Comments
Verbum meum gratiosissium hodiernum
Turpilucricupidus.
Wow. What a great word. Craving filthy lucre. I can't wait to shoehorn that into a sentence. Ain't this a great language! It's amazing what one will stumble upon when reading the dictionary.
Wow. What a great word. Craving filthy lucre. I can't wait to shoehorn that into a sentence. Ain't this a great language! It's amazing what one will stumble upon when reading the dictionary.
Posted on May 15, 2009 at 12:15pm — 3 Comments
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