August 28, 2006

Latina Est Non Gaudium

Or something similar.

I try to be a good student sometimes. Really, I do. I buy all the extra Latin help materials, I install the drills onto my computer.

But the vocabulary drills aren't very helpful when they test vocab from the whole book instead of by chapter. WTF?! I have done 2 chapters. Not 40.

The form drills are okay, I can choose part of speech, tense, person, number, etc. That one is working with me. The vocab? Not so much. Back to the flashcards.

Le sigh.

Posted by Jenelle at August 28, 2006 08:03 PM | TrackBack
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The reason they probably test vocab from all chapters is because it's just rote memorization. Once you've got the grammar down, it doesn't really matter what words you know. In fact, the more words you know the better, because grammar applies to all of them in a virtually universal manner.

Posted by: shank at August 29, 2006 06:33 AM

Yeah, Shank, learning hundreds of extra vocabulary words so I can pass an ungraded computer drill isn't a huge misuse of my available study time.

Posted by: Jenelle at August 29, 2006 11:57 AM

Give me a break. You expecet me to actually believe that you find studying boring and chorish, and that knowing hundreds of new words doesn't make you feel like a friggin genius?

Let's be honest here, you've got a hard-on for academics or you wouldn't have gone back. Besides, I'd be willing to bet "tarsal naviculars" is pretty much 100% based in a couple of those new Latin words you've memorized.

Posted by: shank at August 29, 2006 01:50 PM