Scamming Language Programs
Every day, I get a text or email or run across a “reel” on Facebook that says something like, “Quit saying ‘Sto bene,’ (or any one of dozens of everyday phrases, and then offers what real Italians say.”
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The Greek Conservative Mind
For over ten years I am have been working, intermittently, on a course of lectures and/or written chapters on aspects of Ancient Greek morality, social and political institutions, civilization, literature, and philosophy, that would present the ancient Greeks from a rather different perspective than either the current Marxist-feminist attack on ancient racist patriarchs or the old Liberal defense of the founders of democracy, secular reason, and progress.
Augustine’s Confessions, Book III EXPANDED 09/15! Natural Law
Augustine sees the most earthly desires as a feeble and dissolute shadow of the only reality, the Creator and His love for man who resists the love
San Francisco Bay Blues, Part 2: Chinese Guy, Ron Ronson, and The Armenians
These days, dishwashers are usually wearing headphones, which are a kind of progressive lobotomy, but in those days, they just minded their own business and could think their own thoughts, while as a waiter, I had to deal not just with cranky and befuddled old people, burnt out shells of what had once been human beings but with my fellow-waiters, most of whom were even less appealing.
Greek I.44 AUDIO
Vowel stem nouns of third or consonant declension, prepositions as adverbss, and Partitive
Ignorant Bliss,
Revolutionary leftists are forever praising European social policies to the skies and condemning the rednecks who despise foreigners and the Americans who respect them without knowing one significant fact about any country, tradition, or person in any European country.
Augustine, Book II. 1-7
The second book of The Confessions is perhaps the best known, because it has given us the mythical story of a terribly dissolute young man who eventually overcame his carnal temptations.
Italian August 31 VOCABULARY
Let us prioritize our learning. The most important part of the lesson is the grammar, the least important is the reading. This week we can cut back the reading to about five pages. In addition, instead of trying to learn all the vocabulary, I’ll select the most important.
