I obsess over things...like macrons

[ginlindzey]

So I'm about to get down to some serious grading but got distracted by the thought of searching quia.com for Vergil vocab lists.  I'm starting to think about Vergil stuff for next year for the Latin 4's.  And I'm going to start with a little Vergil with the Latin 3's pretty soon anyway, as soon as I figure out what I'm doing this bizarre TAKS week...

ANYWAY, I found a few lists but no one had macrons.

And I sat there staring at these lists, arrogantly demanding in my head that people start using macrons, asking why others don't use macrons, etc etc.

I need to get a life.  

Ok, I do think they are important.  I do think that the right way to learn vocab is OUTLOUD, said correctly, and that the only way we can possibly do this is by always having macrons on vocab and passages so that we always hear the word right, say it right, etc.  Then, when we've truly LEARNED it right, when we next meet it we will hear it/say it right and no longer need macrons.  But we need them when we are learning them.  We really do.

Or so I think.

*sigh*  So, well, yeah I guess I could just use someone else's lists on quia.com but I know what will happen to me.  I'm going to want the macrons.  

I'm starting to feel a bit like Monk.

Comments

[jeltzz.livejournal.com]

don't worry Ginny, I obsess over macrons too.
- Seumas M

[ginlindzey.livejournal.com]

OH GOOD!

I was just looking again at the Vergil lists (and not grading) and noted that one person had capitalized the long E of 2nd conjugation infinitives.... and I understand WHY to do that, but that seems to be more of a nerdy grammar thing than learning new vocabulary in context thing.



I wonder if I can find a colleague that at least has a list in MS Word that already has macrons....

But I'm avoiding all the grading again...

[jeltzz.livejournal.com]

When I started making lists of the vocabulary in Oerberg, that's when I started making lists with macrons. I'd realised how important it was when trying to learn hebrew vocabulary, because learning hebrew i had to learn to write the words in order to differentiate between characters that were pronounced exactly the same, and so when I became convinced that Latin needed to be pronounced properly, or at least the vowel lengths, that's what tipped me over the edge.

But go and do the grading...

[ginlindzey.livejournal.com]

ok, if I must

Quia Vergil vocab. lists with macrons

[(Anonymous)]

Ginny, I have Quia vocab. lists with macrons, but only for the first half of Book 2. Don't know if that's very helpful. They're at http://www.quia.com/pages/latinibsl.html

You're welcome to copy them if they look useful.

-Jeanine Edson

Re: Quia Vergil vocab. lists with macrons

[ginlindzey.livejournal.com]

Hey, THANKS!

I had no idea you read my blog. HA. Thanks....that's very sweet.

And I'm so glad someone else out there likes macrons!!

gin