The new lesson takes what you have learned and shows you how to use it to start 'performing' the Homeric line. (we will get to grammar and translation, but first the fun stuff). The goal is to be able to do it 'live', so follow the directions carefully. We're building a skill, step by step. Trust the process--I've taught many students to do this over the years, and they are always surprised that it 'works'. Remember, we read traditional English poetry left to right without needing to pre-puzzle out the stress accents (think rhyming couplets, limericks, etc.). You can learn to do it with Homer.

I need to get the next bit up, on doing the full hexameter lines. But first, it would be awesome to know if things are making sense so far, what is still seeming tricky or confusing, etc. so I can patch that in before we get to the fun of building up the ability to 'sight read' meter. I've also just about got a web app ready for vocabulary acquisition... Getting a few hundred very high frequency words memorized is powerful, and I've got a beta build for some fun ways to go about that.

1.5 is up. learn how meter works when dealing with 2 or 3 words next to each other. The full line of verse will be the next step.

I'll have new Lessons up this week. We will move towards building the ability to work through the meter of a line of hexameter not just single words, and start basic grammar. I've also been working on digital flashards and ways to make the process of learning the vocabulary fun and interactive. Some version of that will hopefully go live in the next week, and I'll share the web link to the Alpha version of the app.

new lesson is up. we're getting close to being able to start working on how to do 'scansion'...reading lines from the Epics out loud in meter.