Thursday Resource: SORGLL

If you want to listen to Latin (and Greek) read in restored pronunciation, the SORGLL (Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature) website has a nice variety of selections: http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/Latin.htm
The audio files are clear and easy to understand, and they also have translations of the texts. The original texts on the sites have elisions and long marks written in, which is very helpful for students who are learning about scansion and pronunciation.

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Trucks and the Subjunctive in PowerPoint

Since students don’t know how to use the subjunctive in English, explaining the constructions in Latin is complicated.  The presentations linked in this blog post

Links for October 17th

Priceless — the Twelve Labors of Hercules performed by… Vladimir Putin.  (Gratias to Ben Auger!) Constantine the Great — convert or con-artist? Because, of course,

Thursday Resource: Wordle

Wordle is a website that can take any text you enter (like this selection from Caesar) and make a word cloud out of it. More