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Why Speak Latin?
Our modern language colleagues know that mastery comes when the student has internalized the language. They understand that internalizing happens through communication; through experiences that intimately, directly, and frequently involve the hearing and speaking faculties. Internalizing requires quick, immediate exchanges; communication that promotes thinking in the target language, without recourse to English. This principle is equally valid in Latin instruction,…
This is an excerpt from "Why Speak Latin", by Nancy Llewellyn.
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Latin Lives ... Literally!
by Dean CassellaAlmost twenty years ago, I asked my first Latin teacher when I would be able to speak Latin. Laughing, he sardonically replied: "Not for a long time." Year after year went by for me as an undergraduate, master's student and finally a doctoral student in Classics. Despite having read several thousand pages of Latin literature, and having taught the language professionally for years, that magical moment that I had been waiting for, the Latin conversation, never reared its lovely head.
29 July 2009 [Read the whole article at Fort Worth Renaissance]
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