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Living an Ancient Language (Patreon)

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2022-05-08 17:45:43
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2023-11
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Many of you follow Luke Ranieri's excellent channels polýMATHY (about a range of subjects in language and science) and ScorpioMartianus (for learning Latin and Greek) already, and personally I've long admired the incredible good cheer and skillful pedagogy he brings to everything he does. In this video, which I'm posting early on Vimeo for Patreon to enjoy, he and I had a long discussion on what I think is one of his signature causes: learning ancient languages in the same way one would approach a living language.

I hope you get as much out of this conversation as I did, and it's had me thinking hard about the right way to freshen up the teaching of Old Norse as I begin to do serious spadework on my upcoming Old Norse instructional book for Hackett.

There's also another, very wide-ranging, conversation between Luke Ranieri and me on his channel now.

For now, thanking you for your kindness and support, and wishing you all the best,

Jackson Crawford

P.S. My Patreon messages don't work. I don't get notifications for them, and there's nothing on my home page to show me  when there is or isn't a  message. I can't even always see them when  I check for them manually, and you won't see it if I reply! The best   ways   to get in touch are: a) just to comment on posts like this, b)  to  post   in the  Community page, or c) to email my assistant Stella at   [admin  AT JacksonWCrawford.com]--remember the 'W' between my first and last names in that domain name.

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Anonymous

Grātiās vōbīs agō hōc prō sermōne. Thanks for this conversation. As a fellow Latin speaker, I'll add one more thing that might be useful. I've noticed that conversations about this question are often too abstract to be persuasive: it's too easy to dismiss the advantages of the "active approach" as fantastic or exaggerated. What skeptics really lack is experience. There are real questions about how best to teach this way, and the problems of purity and cosplaying aren't straw men, but the bottom line is that if you learn to speak Latin you'll be able to read many more books much faster and with a keener eye than if you'd learned the conventional way. The results are concrete, but very hard to describe in abstract terms. Heck, I don't know why it works, but it sure does.

Anonymous

Ranveig, everyone is a Master at something and a novice at something else, so never think your questions are "dumbass". For me, I went to school for Rehab Counseling and I minored in Sub. Use Counseling (or as I call it, going to school to learn how to shut up and listen). Before that, I got my degree in Psychology. When I was in my field, I was a Suicide/Crisis Counselor. And I have been rescuing animals since I was a child. For my current occupation, I manage a team and a department for a company that sells higher end floor and Decor products. I have absolutely no experience (or even a hardcore interest in Old Norse language or Viking Culture). I just like learning about ancient languages. I support Jackson because I believe in him and what he is trying to do and I think he deserves to make a living off of all the work he has put into his studies and for the time he spends teaching it to others. Everyone has a beginning and they grow from there. For me, I always worry about making a group mad at me for asking a question that all of them already know the answer to (and thus "slowing" the class down), so I am afraid to ask questions.

Anonymous
>>83631644

Thanks Tammy, i appreciate that. I don't really mean the "dumbass" thing in a self-deprecating way, it's more like a tactic to make it easier for myself to interact even though i might worry what people think. My cognitive functioning varies quite a lot due to some health stuff atm and i regularly say and do things that just don't make any sense, so i'm just working on accepting the emotional discomfort that comes with that stuff. Idk it might be a weird tactic but for me it helps. :) Anyway, i agree it can be nice to just sit back and enjoy watching an interesting conversation between knowledgeable people. But i feel like you are setting a totally different standard for your own questions compared to everyone elses? I'm sure there are plenty of people watching these videos that also don't have an old norse background and would enjoy some of the more basic questions too. But of course the point of this whole thing is to enjoy yourself so if you don't feel like asking questions then that's totally fair.

Anonymous
>>83631644

I also discovered, during my schooling to be a mechanic, that everyone will survive if they sit through a dumb question of mine here and there. More importantly, such a question often reveals one or two other people who wondered the same thing, but didn't want to ask