As a senior in high school, I have been asked every year for the past four years what classes I will be taking in the fall. As I go through my five different periods on my fingers, I am always met ...
With students gone for the day, 6th grade teachers Joy Ford and Ryan Rusk sat in a classroom discussing the Latin root temp. After determining that “contemporary” and “temporary” share the root, which ...
As a sidebranch to dust's thread about learning Mandarin - how hard do you think it would be for somebody to pick up some level of proficiency in either classical or ecclesiastical Latin? I don't need ...
I took four years of Spanish in high school. Today, I’m only good for “Hola!” and, “Dónde está el baño?” (At least I’m covered where friendliness and a very basic human need are concerned.) And that’s ...
“The Roman Church has special obligations towards Latin, the splendid language of ancient Rome, and she must manifest them whenever the occasion presents itself” (Dominicae Cenae, 10). Teaching Latin ...