Rereading is your single most important tool, but instructors rarely take the time to show others how. It’s self-explanatory, right? Just reread. Well, what I’ve learned is there are different ways to reread a text and people benefit from a bit of an introduction. I want to point out Luke Ranieri’s technique. If language acquisition…
A colleague and I had a neat opportunity this morning to sit down with a student and chat about the Latin in Harry Potter. The student was writing a research paper on the classical roots of the story’s plot, characters, and language. There are posts scattered all over the internet that discuss these things, but…
Online resources can be difficult to use, or at least uncomfortable. Many sites have all the information you need but are not formatted nicely and require the user to make too many repetitive clicks. I want to share a workflow I’ve been using recently that is completely based on online resources and at the same…
I finished Of Mice and Men last night. A friend sent it as a gift, and it was mysteriously enthralling from the start. I read the little novella a chapter at a time late at night. I would pick it up every few days when I was at the end of my rope, tired and…
For years, I’ve found a lot of benefit in small reading groups, but recently one of my groups morphed into a practice space for conversational Greek. I thought some of you might find this interesting and something you want to try. Let me explain a little. Reading Group Kojo and I have been meeting on…
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about self-deception in Brothers Karamazov, Proverbs, and Avett lyrics, and that post was in part a testimony to how much I’m enjoying reading Brothers. I want to make a few other simple observations here. One thing I love about Brothers Karamazov is how short the chapters are.…
Live Click is my favorite feature of Accordance, and yesterday I created a few new workspaces to better take advantage of its features. I use Accordance primarily as a reading companion, a place to turn to for reference resources as I read from a print text. Most frequently, I look to Accordance to be a…
An interesting thread appeared this morning while doing some reading in Proverbs. The thread runs through Proverbs, Brothers Karamazov, and an Avett Brothers song, and I think it’s worth explaining. Proverbs In Proverbs 14:8 there is a word at the end of the verse that is normally glossed something like “deceit” or “treachery.” So the…
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Accordance has released a host of new daily readers that focus on the original languages of the Bible. All of these are based on 365 day reading plans, starting today, January 1. Each provides the type of readings you can work through in less than five minutes a day, which means if you fall behind…
In May of 2021, this site will be ten years old, and I intend to keep it going. Why would someone choose to blog in 2021? It is now way cooler to have a podcast or YouTube channel. My answer has two parts but is simple. First, I blog because I enjoy writing — especially…
