Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Awakening Moon<\/p>\n
Didn’t go into the Woolly restaurant meeting this evening and feel mildly guilty.\u00a0 I didn’t have a good reason not to go, I just wanted to stay home.\u00a0 Showing up is important.\u00a0 Anyhow.<\/p>\n
How about this?\u00a0 I’m really liking Latin.\u00a0 Not quite sure why.\u00a0 It has a puzzle aspect I find enjoyable and, of course, there’s the learning curve which I find challenging–a good thing for me.\u00a0 The key reasons are two, I suspect.\u00a0 First, I’ve never finished studying a language, have never gotten to a point where I felt like I had a good grasp of one.\u00a0 A bit of French, some Greek, some Hebrew, some previous Latin, a disastrous semester of German, but no focused, positive experience.\u00a0 I feel like I’m headed toward a good grasp of Latin.\u00a0 Second, I have a particular goal, translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses for myself.<\/p>\n
There’s a novel in there, too and I’m excited about that as the language comes more and more easily.<\/p>\n
I also like having a tutor.\u00a0 This one-to-one learning works well for me.\u00a0 Kate’s taking it has ramped up my learning by the joint working through of chapters after we finish the assignments separately.\u00a0 So, there’s that together aspect to it, too.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow I’ll finish the ancient sentences, translating from Latin into English, then a bit of Cicero, but I’m most excited about a paragraph of Ovid I’ll translate, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Awakening Moon Didn’t go into the Woolly restaurant meeting this evening and feel mildly guilty.\u00a0 I didn’t have a good reason not to go, I just wanted to stay home.\u00a0 Showing up is important.\u00a0 Anyhow. How about this?\u00a0 I’m really liking Latin.\u00a0 Not quite sure why.\u00a0 It has a puzzle aspect I find enjoyable … Continue reading Liking Latin<\/span>