Beltane Waxing Planting Moon
An all day Latin day. I know, a beautiful day and I stayed inside with Wheelock. Well, I worked outside all day yesterday and will work outside some more further on in the week. I’ve discovered that, for me, when learning Latin, sticking close to one unit and working with it in a solid block of time allows me learn, integrated and reinforce new ideas.
Today the focus was on cardinal and ordinal numbers, ablative and genitive particulars. I’m not quite done, but I got far enough along that the new stuff has begun to sink in. My goal is to finish the chapter, then spend another block of time on Ovid.
If I wait until the weekdays, things begin to interfere and I don’t have the large chunk of time I need when confronted with new material. I always perceived myself as a poor language student, now I think I never devoted enough time to it.
It feels good, learning new things then putting them to use in translating Ovid.
