Editor. Publishing Comenius' vocabulary 📚 in English, Latin and Anc. Greek | Cœptus ad ēdendōs librōs vocābulāriī trilinguēs Comeniī. | 🇪🇦: @comeniustri
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This is the English language account of the original @ComeniusTri project.
You will find here news about it and other projects, fragments and screenshots of the books and everything Comenian.
Valēte!
Comenius Anglicus 🇬🇧🇺🇲 retweeted
If your Latin course does not lead to language acquisition, please re-title it to something more forthright, such as "Fun with Grammar by means of the Latin Language" or "AP spending 45 minutes looking up unfamiliar terms in a dictionary in order to build character".
Comenius Anglicus 🇬🇧🇺🇲 retweeted
This is a very good point, and the reason of course is that most students who are taught Latin are in fact being taught *Classics* - and many Latin teachers are only able to conceptualise the teaching of Latin as part of Classics (whose telos is reading difficult Roman authors)
Comenius Anglicus 🇬🇧🇺🇲 retweeted
No-one says ‘the point of learning French is to read the Troubadours’ or ‘the point of learning English is to read the Metaphysical poets’. There is a vast canon of Latin literature: there is something for every level of difficulty and every taste. End/
Comenius Anglicus 🇬🇧🇺🇲 retweeted
It frustrates me that Latin teaching is so focused on difficult authors, being Virgil into even GCSE. It’s like assigning George Herbert to students doing English as a foreign language. 2/
Comenius Anglicus 🇬🇧🇺🇲 retweeted
In conventu c. i. “#Latinitas et doctrinarum orbis”, Georgius Augustinus Laminarius (Universitas Carolina Pragensis – Schola Latina): orationem habuit cuius titulus est: ‘De Ioanne Amos #Comenio eiusque docendi methodo’: youtube.com/watch?v=aDKY3ACp…
#lingualatina #comenius #komenský
Comenius Anglicus 🇬🇧🇺🇲 retweeted
I take the massive reaction to my tweet about Latin as a very positive sign that there are many, many people out there who care about it as a subject. Can I point new followers to the charities Via Facilis and Classics for All, which do a great job in promoting classics.
The old languages are coming back to life…
Can you understand ACTUALLY SPOKEN Old English??
Here are a few snippets from my conversation with @colingorrie , the first recorded conversation between two advanced OE speakers in over 800 years!
Check out the whole episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=Ww6hoKRW…
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Comenius Anglicus 🇬🇧🇺🇲 retweeted
Latin was a revelation for me too: it taught me the inner logic of my own language and opened the doors to others. But I owe just as much to Ancient Greek. If Latin gave me structure, clarity, and rhythm, Greek - with its complexity and its rich, nuanced vocabulary - taught me to embrace contradictions and live with ambiguity
Comenius Anglicus 🇬🇧🇺🇲 retweeted
How do you say 'Latin' in Latin?
⚠️ Latīnum (substantivized neuter adjective) should only be used in certain phrases like 'in Latīnum convertere'. The nominative is to be avoided.
✅ lingua Latīna
✅ sermō Latīnus
✅ litterae Latīnae
✅ Latīnitās
👨⚖️ #Antibarbarus
