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The Ancient Language Institute exists to aid students in their path to proficiency in ancient languages. Co-Founders @JRob1572 and @HammillRyan
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Why bother reading old books anyways?
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We can take you from zero Greek knowledge to reading the classical Greek works of mythology, drama, poetry, and philosophy. You don't need a fancy degree. You just need the right tools, a good teacher, and some hard work. We'll show you how.
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Want to study an ancient language this fall? This Sept - Dec, we are running everything from beginner to advanced classes in Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, and Old English.
Brief 🧵 below on some of the offerings:
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For 10 straight years, Tim Griffith spoke in Latin to his children exclusively.
He has been a pioneer of comprehensible input-based approaches to language teaching in the Classical Christian Education movement.
ALI would not exist in its current form without him.
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Ok, you think about Rome everyday. Do you think in Latin everyday?
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The demand for Latin classes is outstripping the supply of Latin teachers. Classical schools ask us constantly for help sourcing Latin teachers.
That's why we are running a crash course in Latin this summer, aimed especially at new teachers. Two sections are already full!
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Experience Homer the way he's meant to be experienced.
This July, for ten days, we will be reading and speaking in Ancient Greek, memorizing passages from the Iliad and Odyssey, and coming to a deeper knowledge and appreciation of the greatest poet in history.
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Grammar-translation and related modern language teaching methods don’t work because they’re predicated on a mistake about what is going on when you learn a language.
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For the first time, the Ancient Language Institute is moving from the internet to the physical world. Come join us in August 2023, for a 10-day Ancient Greek immersion camp!
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Homer is not dead! The classics live yet! Even on Twitter! Thank you everyone for 1k ❤️🔥
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On Englalande is sum holt. On þām holte is sum bera.
𝐼𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡. 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑟.
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It is time for classical education to shine.
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Does meter scare you? Wish you could recite Latin poetry better?
Luke is here to help. Come join us this spring for some introductory Latin meter and recitation workshops!
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This summer. Will you learn Ancient Greek?
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The plebs shall read Vergil in Latin, the commoners Homer in Greek, the plowboy shall sing the Psalms in Hebrew - and know their meaning.
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We are bringing Ōsweald Bera to the world this fall of 2024.
Congratulations to
@colingorrie
on completing an amazing project!
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"There is no metaphysical common ground between modern school and classical education."
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HAPPY EASTER
Χριστὸς ἀνεστή
Christus resurrexit
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Want to read some Greek this spring?
Vladimir Chiurlea will be leading a course dedicated to Isocrates' letter to Demonicus.
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He has a ton of wisdom and we were delighted to have him on New Humanists to talk about Quintilian, Ad Herennium, coaching soccer, W.H.D. Rouse, Picta Dicta, and more. Give it a listen:
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Pretty good for two hours’ work. Thanks everybody!
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At long last, we are once again accepting applications for people interested in studying Old English in a one-on-one tutorial format.
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This week, we kicked off reading the Aeneid in Latin in three separate tutorials, all with Latin students who've been with us from the very beginning of their Latin studies.
They were so happy and pumped. Now, the first 11 lines of the Aeneid belong to them. On to next week.
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@mjjhoskin
They can be, certainly. Thus, it'd be much desired that the res be present in the classroom. ;)
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The founding city of democracy, Athens, killed the founder of philosophy, Socrates.
Democracy and philosophy - two things we in the modern world say that we love. But it seems that they didn't love each other. Why?
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Petrarch goes so far as to dream of a Julius Caesar reborn in medieval Europe and baptized a Christian, who goes on to conquer Egypt from the Muslims and present her as a gift - this time not to Cleopatra - but to Christ.
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Very excited to announce we're adding a third section of Beginner Biblical Hebrew this upcoming fall. Now you can choose between Thurs, Fri, or Sat for H101.
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How do you learn a language that's not a mother tongue?
@JRob1572
and
@CarterEhnis
of ALI,
@nemessmer
of
@biblingoapp
, and
@colingorrie
will be streaming a conversation about learning "dead" languages on Monday June 20 at 12pm PDT. Come on over!
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Teaching Latin in the fall?
Want some help?
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This September, for the first time, we will have multiple cohorts in our Aeneid Seminar.
In our “Aeneid Seminars,” we spend an entire term conducting a close reading of a single book of Virgil’s masterpiece, reading and discussing it in Latin.
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Want your child to benefit from Tim's expertise?
No, we cannot send him to your house to speak in Latin to your kids for 10 years...
But we can teach your child Latin using the tools Tim developed, which condense decades of his study and experimentation...
For 10 straight years, Tim Griffith spoke in Latin to his children exclusively.
He has been a pioneer of comprehensible input-based approaches to language teaching in the Classical Christian Education movement.
ALI would not exist in its current form without him.
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Don't let the New Testament be just Greek to you.
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ALI's very first Old English students started reading
@colingorrie
's Osweald Bera back in January. Their first reading in this upcoming fall term will be selections from the Wessex Gospels.
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Section A: Full
Section B: Full
Section C: 2 spots left
Section D: 9 spots left
The demand for Latin classes is outstripping the supply of Latin teachers. Classical schools ask us constantly for help sourcing Latin teachers.
That's why we are running a crash course in Latin this summer, aimed especially at new teachers. Two sections are already full!
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Tim has been a champion Latin outfitter for the classical education movement. Between the students he has taught and the tools he has built, Tim will - without question - shape an entire generation of Latin scholars and teachers.
Last year, he asked us...
For 10 straight years, Tim Griffith spoke in Latin to his children exclusively.
He has been a pioneer of comprehensible input-based approaches to language teaching in the Classical Christian Education movement.
ALI would not exist in its current form without him.
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Are you an artist? 🎨
Yes, ALI is an online school - but we are also constantly building tools and curricula. Most of that has remained internal to our classes and students.
But pretty soon, some of that work will break containment.
Which brings us to the art...
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@AGROS_edu
@nemessmer
@AndrewCogburn1
@charles_loder
@biblingoapp
Yes, and as a second order effect, it produces in the minds of students the idea that language learning and language study are above all a matter of translation.
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Today is the last day to sign up for our Spring term (classes start in January).
.
@theancientlang
is an amazing resource. If I ever get around to learning Hebrew or Latin (or just to improve my Greek), I know where I’m turning for help.
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For everyone craving more Tim Griffith content, his lecture at a
@NewSaintAndrews
Disputatio just dropped
For 10 straight years, Tim Griffith spoke in Latin to his children exclusively.
He has been a pioneer of comprehensible input-based approaches to language teaching in the Classical Christian Education movement.
ALI would not exist in its current form without him.
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Beginner-friendly Latin poetry workshop with Luke Ranieri is now sold out.
Does meter scare you? Wish you could recite Latin poetry better?
Luke is here to help. Come join us this spring for some introductory Latin meter and recitation workshops!
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All Old English courses for the fall are here:
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Don’t disappoint the Bear! Sign up now!
Ōsweald the Bear is back
We're starting a cohort of Old English in January, so if you'd like to hop on, now is the time
The students who started last January are now reading the Wanderer and the Seafarer... with Beowulf on the horizon. This could be you this time next year!
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Those who started with zero Old English last January… here’s what they’ll be doing, starting this January:
“…a prose account of St. Andrew, the heroic poem Andreas, as well as the classic elegiac poems The Wanderer and The Seafarer.”
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@wilrogan
Nice thread. You might enjoy reading
@colingorrie
's essay about language learning, especially for ancient languages, from a linguistics angle
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The Characters caricatures different human types: the Bumpkin, the Flatterer, the Superstitious, and many others. This work not only offers insight into the everyday life of Athenians, but also presents a source of idiomatic Greek, phrases and expressions.
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A look at what ALI Bible Camp was like last year
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Yes, we’re doing Homer Camp in July.
And in August: Bible Camp, in the SF Bay Area
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Imagine you are the leading figure in a movement to renew the study of the classics, but you come to the end of your life and the educational and political situation has only gotten worse. Such was the vista spread out before Petrarch in his twilight.
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Everyone knows that active use and grammatical study are opposing pedagogies. What this workshop presupposes is, what if they aren't?
Come learn the Ancient Greek parts of speech, in Ancient Greek, with
@AGROS_edu
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Excited to announce our second Bible Camp teacher - the stellar
@JThornhill51
!
If you want to come read and speak in Ancient Greek this summer, come join us in Eugene, OR from Aug. 14 - Aug. 25.
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Should you study Ecclesiastical or Classical Latin?
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Jacques-Louis David was one of the giants of Neoclassical painting, and his enormous tableaus of scenes both ancient and contemporary are imprinted in many peoples' minds.
When you think of the death of Socrates, does this painting come to mind?
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Finally, Old English. Get your hands on a pre-publication edition of Ōsweald Bera, Colin Gorrie’s new Old English textbook, by joining us for E101.
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Fearing for his job and the damage such a discovery would do to the Grammar-Translation Method, the anonymous employee turned this remarkable manuscript over to us. The original is now under lock and key in the ALI archives to protect it against vandalism.
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We are very grateful to have Katherine L. Bradshaw on our team, teaching Latin and Ancient Greek (and developing curriculum for us too!).
She shares here a little bit about the shape of her scholarship and teaching - check it out.
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Look!
@colingorrie
and
@Norsebysw
talking old languages, pedagogy, and of course, Ōsweald Bera.
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Many links to his various projects are in the show notes. Check out
@NewSaintAndrews
(where he teaches) and
@RomanRoadsPress
(which sells his Picta Dicta products) to learn more.
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About as many downloads of the Solzhenitsyn episode in the past 2 days as we had in the month it was released.
Thanks everybody - hope you enjoy! 🗣️🎧
When Solzhenitsyn came to the US as a Soviet exile he was a celebrity dissident. The Harvard Address was his first major public appearance. People were excited to hear the great dissident speak.
They were very disappointed—even angry.
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Very excited to be sponsoring this event!
Join us for the 2nd annual Bay Area Davenant Dinner!
@WBLittlejohn
will present the keynote address, "On Naming the World: A Protestant Vision for Christian Education".
Register now!
8/12 at the Blackhawk Country Club
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Get a guide to lots and lots of tools for studying Old English from a very experienced guide!
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We're doing more Theophrastus on April 26th - the fourth session in a series. Even if you haven't been to the previous three, you're perfectly welcome to jump in on the fourth.
When we think of Athens, we think of the Athens of Pericles, Socrates, the great orators in the Agora. But where is everyone else? Weren’t there also ordinary people in Athens, and if so, can we find out more about their lives from our sources?
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People are saying:
(our teachers are amazing)
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In this course your student will learn Latin through engaging pictures, sentences, and short stories. No need to suffer through grammar charts and vocab lists. Instead, begin listening to, speaking, and reading in Latin from the very first day of class.
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Back in 2019, ALI got started with
@JRob1572
teaching a couple Latin classes. In 2020,
@ScorpioMartian
came on board to start our Ancient Greek program. In 2021, Tyler Foster joined and started building our Biblical Hebrew program. Well, it's 2022... what are we adding this year?
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ὁ Κέφαλος knows of which he speaks!
Seriously, if you ever want to experience world class spoken Classical Greek, this is where you want to be. The instructor is an absolute genius‼️
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We're now halfway to capacity. If you're thinking about coming... don't wait too long...
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This July, join us in North Carolina for: Homer Camp, feat.
@AGROS_edu
,
@JThornhill51
, Vladimir Chiurlea, and Cole Whetstone.
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A pandemic. A changing climate. A hopelessly divided country. Christianity threatened by Islam. Universities completely out of touch with normal people. Late medieval Italy was a basket case.
All the while, a small group of men was dreaming of the Roman Empire...
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We have some fun projects cooking up over in the Latin for Kids department at ALI. Check out our very first "Introduction to Philology" video, all about the word "stilus," presented by
@colingorrie
.
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There is less than a month left to sign up for our immersive Greek camp - and only a few spots left. Get that application in soon if you're thinking of coming!
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Irving Babbitt was the architect of New Humanism. He was also T.S. Eliot's mentor at Harvard. But in 1928, Eliot's essay criticizing his old mentor's humanistic project was published, which provoked a terse, and sharp, rebuke from Babbitt.
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New OE class running this fall!
With
@colingorrie
, read across the genres of Old English prose literature, including both secular & religious works. You will also get your first taste of Old English poetry.
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Come spend an evening with Erasmus - and ALI Fellow Katherine L. Bradshaw!
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Join
@colingorrie
@HammillRyan
and
@JRob1572
this afternoon, Friday, September 16th, at 1pm PDT for a livestream info and teaching session about the new Old English program at the ALI and the Colin's Oerberg-style reader.
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So fun to have students "graduate" into reading and studying their target language on their own, and then having them come back to start a new one
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Students have been having an awesome time reading Theophrastus' Characters with ALI Fellow Vladimir Chiurlea. The Workshop series continues on May 10th!
Naturally, yes, and there are many sources that tell us about the everyday life of Athens in the Classical Period and beyond. One of the more accessible for Ancient Greek students is the “ἠθικοὶ χαρακτῆρες”, by Theophrastus, who was one of Aristotle’s most diligent students.
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Parables & Miracles of Jesus
Come read the gospels in Koine Greek. This August, come read the Evangelists' accounts of the parables and miracles of Jesus. We'll be reading and speaking in Greek for five straight days.
Yes, we’re doing Homer Camp in July.
And in August: Bible Camp, in the SF Bay Area
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Read Bede. READ BEDE.
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ALI’s most popular course: Latin 101.
This is where to start if you’re a Latin beginner, or if you did some Latin a long time ago and it never really “took.” We will read the world-famous “Lingua Latina” and get a great intro to the cases and declensions of Latin.
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Learn Old English vocabulary and grammar by reading a newly written graded reader designed to delight with its charming narrative, to educate about medieval England, but most of all, to instruct students in the fundamentals of the Old English language.
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ALI is the Exclusive Carrier of Osweald Content. Join us this summer!
Why not learn Old English this summer?
Beginning in May, I will be teaching a new cohort of my beginner's Old English class at
@theancientlang
.
The course is designed around an original Old English story which recounts the adventures of Ōsweald, a bear in Anglo-Saxon England.
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We are looking for a talented illustrator to work with. We have a "shovel-ready" project ready to go. Just need to find the right person.
So if you like old stuff and can draw good, please reach out!
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