Summer Latin Institute – DAY 4, 9:19 a.m.

Just spent about 45 minutes in my office at the Graduate Center drilling second declension nouns, first-second declension adjectives, and noun-adjective agreement with a student, then moving on to sequence of tenses, relative time, purpose clauses and indirect commands. Our struggling students are so self-conscious about their speed. We must constantly remind them: Latin is a marathon not a sprint.

More soon… 

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