Today will be a day for review. I shall review old vocabulary, verb principle parts (I am currently learning 4/6, but I try to memorize the perfects), and perhaps revisit some old exercises. I won’t have too much time so this might spill over into Saturday.
Note:
-I won’t be posting a daily thread Thursday and Friday, because both days are entirely full and I won’t have really any time (except flash card review before I sleep?). But I will return on Saturday.
PS: Sorry I believe I typed in Monday in the subject of the last daily thread, while it should have been Tuesday.
Hi Gonzalo, I am studying Greek from Mastronarde’s Introduction to Attic Greek, which has an answer key. In the past I have read about half or so of the book informally without doing exercises (what a waste of time THAT was), so now I am going through it making flash cards, doing the exercises, and trying to get it to stick more clearly in my mind. It is clearly more challenging this way.
These are cue cards, upon the front of which is written either the substantive with the genitive, or the verb with all 6 principle parts, and with the English definition on the rear. I use these for review, at least when I remember. I am long overdo for some such review.
IIRC you can buy some such cards from Vis Ed, but custom ones based on one’s own studies are more effective.
Plukidis, I know what you are talking about. I use it a lot. For instance, when I get up in the morning and I am preparing myself in order to go to my High School and while I start to read, study, or drinking a cofee at the same time I prepare a cards in which I write the nominative and genitive (of substantives), the neuter, femenine and masculine form (if an adjective) and verbs with their Spanish translation. I read it when I am going to my High School and thus I learn that vocabulary.
ok, I’m not really, just when it comes to this…lol.
I have been having a hard time sitting myself down to get stuff done. busy days! So yesterday I decided to keep my Cambridge Latin book beside my bed and read a bit before bed each night… so that even if I do nothing else, I am at least getting that little bit… last night I read a couple of pages, and will do so again tonight.
I’ve begun reading the introduction to my Odyssey 1-2 edition (Peter Jones). I find the typography and format to be quite … unfortunate. I am so far not impressed with the information in the introduction either. I shall hope for better in the commentary. (Perhaps it is a mistake to hope for too much in a student edition.)
I read a bit of Caesar during my lunch break today and continue apace with composition.
Well, if this is any comfort, it was a light day for me as well. I just did simple review. And I won’t be posting in the daily thread until Saturday due to “external factors”. Best of luck to all in their studies.
