October Newsletter

Welcome to the Polyglossos October newsletter. Every month, I will talk about things happening in my life that are related to Classics learning and some advice for beginners, along with some extra snippets that didn't fit on my Instagram posts this month.

What I'm up to.

It's refreshing to not read poetry all the time after a year of Latin where poetry is the main focus. For any other AP Latin learners, enjoy Caesar. His writing is considered extremely straightforward.

Advice for Beginners.

Following what I said last week about learning grammar, I think what is also important about grammar is to learn it in a reasonable order. In my opinion, most textbooks do not lay out the grammar in a way that is most beneficial for a good foundational knowledge. The fundamentals of Latin grammar forms at least for the very beginners should be all of the noun cases and the first 3rd declension of the nouns, along with present and imperfect tense for all of the verbs. Some textbooks try to ease readers in to the grammar by introducing some noun cases such as the dative very late into the textbook because it is more complicated. While that is true, I still believe that at least learning the most important uses of all of the cases at the very beginning is beneficial.

Updates on the Book.

Formatting is all done and working on some final proofreading and applying for copyright. DM @polyglossos_ on Instagram if you are interested in contributing.

Latin Short Stories: Myth and History for Beginning Latin Students

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Did you know?

"ne te quaesiveris extra" is better known not as a quote from Persius' Satires but rather as a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance". Emerson quotes Persius in the first line of his essay along with a quote from English authors Beaumont and Fletcher and an except from another of Emerson's own writing.