![]() I can’t tell you how many times I have looked up the word “tamen.” J To be sure some of this is due to my own defects i.e., being 72 years old, memory ain’t what it used to be. I find that, though my vocabulary has grown a lot, it is wholly inadequate. But alas, I can’t seem to get past the decoding phase, to the reading phase, for example when I try to read the fabulae from Fabulae Syrae or when I work on Pensum B, at the end of each chapter, which requires reading comprehension. Then I do the Pensa at the end of each chapter. After reading the chapter several times, including aloud, to my wife’s everlasting delight, I always write it out, which gives me another view of words and their relationships within sentences. I have also observed Professor Dowling’s tenet of working on my Latin every day. subject, direct object, indirect object etc. Then slowly a la the Dowling Method getting the meaning of each word and how they relate i.e. ![]() ![]() I read through each chapter, first, somewhat quickly, to get the lay of the land and to check out the Grammatica Latina section and the end of each chapter. When I noticed I was starting to forget the verb paradigms, I took to reciting them aloud as I drive to work each morning. I did all the rote memorization of the paradigms before starting with LLPI which helped immensely. I have been following the Dowling Method for slightly more than two years. I am working on the last few chapters of Lingua Latina: per se Illustrata Pars I.
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