I'll have to hit you up for that accent sheet once I get back into the Jones book. And way to go with your former student!
Incidentally, why is it that so many people use counterproductive methods when teaching foreign languages. Here we have Greek and Latin teachers ignoring fundamental parts of the language to 'help' students while Japanese and Korean teachers 'help' their students by using romanization before teaching Japanese or Korean script. (>.<)
My Latin review is decidedly old school in its approach. I'm taking Jenney's first year text and doing a unit a day, but doing it well: reading until I understand, writing down my answers to all the exercises, looking up everything I'm unsure of, reading aloud, and forcing myself to compose the entire answer sentences in my head before I start writing them down.
When I'm really stuck on something I'll look at the relevent chapters in the other texts I own (Using Latin 1, Cambridge Unit 2, Wheelock's, Jones, and Our Latin Heritage.)
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on 2006-11-29 11:06 pm (UTC)Incidentally, why is it that so many people use counterproductive methods when teaching foreign languages. Here we have Greek and Latin teachers ignoring fundamental parts of the language to 'help' students while Japanese and Korean teachers 'help' their students by using romanization before teaching Japanese or Korean script. (>.<)
My Latin review is decidedly old school in its approach. I'm taking Jenney's first year text and doing a unit a day, but doing it well: reading until I understand, writing down my answers to all the exercises, looking up everything I'm unsure of, reading aloud, and forcing myself to compose the entire answer sentences in my head before I start writing them down.
When I'm really stuck on something I'll look at the relevent chapters in the other texts I own (Using Latin 1, Cambridge Unit 2, Wheelock's, Jones, and Our Latin Heritage.)