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[Jon Christianson]

I'm glad he likes the Henle videos!

My answer is that sticking with one program as thoroughly as possible is usually the best idea. I wouldn't generally recommend a program switch for any reason other than that the previous one isn't working for you, such as the switch you've already made...

[Jon Christianson]

I'm back! I was sick for a while.

Anyway, your question. First, a disclaimer: accents and macrons are not an authentic part of Latin orthography. We merely include them to assist students in pronunciation and emphasis. Your student is not writing poorly if he or she leaves them out entirely;...

[Jon Christianson]

I can stomach them all, but I prefer lih-see-ah. A lih pronunciation most closely resembles the pronunciation of the Greek upsilon that our Roman y replaced, which is more of a ü or a halfway point between u and y. It also mirrors the nearly identical Lydia, a neighboring region of Anatolia to Lycia....

[Jon Christianson]

The shuh gets a definitive boo from me. True, the ci(vowel) combination often gets muddled into a sh sound - special, spacious, prescient - but that doesn't typically apply to proper nouns like place names. I've never heard Galicia as Gah-lee-shuh, or Francia as Fran-shuh, or Mercia as Mer-shuh. (Those...

[Jon Christianson]

Her question can be reduced to a simpler one: is mythology worth studying, or is a particular mythology worth studying? Is there something intrinsic to mythology itself that is valuable to us? Or, are there traits of some mythologies that are valuable beyond the realm of mythology? If the former, then...

[Jon Christianson]

I'm writing as fast as I can!...

[Jon Christianson]

Yes, but I daresay not arbitrarily so. There's a difference in sense between something being done by hand as in with the use of one's hand versus by hand as in by a person, and that difference should govern one's discretion.

For example, if something is written by hand, the clear sense...

[Jon Christianson]

Yes, synecdoche permits all of the given examples to serve as stand-ins for the living agents in question. A distinction is not being made between the person and the part, so there's no sense of the person doing something by means of the part.

For the record, the ablative of agent can...

[Jon Christianson]

I would mark both ass correct, with the following notes:

4. Nova could indeed be feminine nominative singular or neuter accusative plural - that is, it could modify either via or oppida. However, in terms of the best translation, adjectives of quality typically follow the noun they modify;...

[Jon Christianson]

The short answer is that it is certainly age-appropriate, but it can appear not to be if you don't know what you're getting into!

Watership Down is the Aeneid of rabbit literature. (Easily the strangest sentence I expect to write all day.) It takes a whole lot of themes from epic poetry...

[Jon Christianson]

Hello,

Great question! One has to be quite careful with the word for in English, as we use it for a whole lot of things! Your daughter is correct in saying that nam means for, but only as a conjunction, such as, "Do not tell me, for I already know the answer." So, it isn't acceptable...

[Jon Christianson]

Correction! Silly me, we do spiral our FFL and SFL Teacher Manuals, don't we? In that case, eventually we very likely will spiral the upper Forms' Teacher Manuals as well.

As for the flashcards, it appears that we're having supplier issues on that front. Until the paper market gets a little...

[Jon Christianson]

I don't believe so, no. For the Forms, we pretty much reserve the spiral binding for workbooks. As for flashcards, that's a mystery to me!

- Jon

[Jon Christianson]

Ditto! No plans to update anytime soon. By 3FL, parsing is something we want our students to do in their noggins.

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[Jon Christianson]

Perhaps it's an obvious take on my part, being a company man and all, but I wouldn't advise a detour unless there's a pretty obvious benefit to it. A one-student situation like yours permits possible adjustments in a way a classroom doesn't, but in this case the relative merit of bypassing a possible...