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Is using translation cheating when it comes to learning a foreign language? In the paedagogical world of communicative Latin and Ancient Greek, we often eschew translation as an obstacle to acquisition — but there is more than one kind of "translation" ! In this video, I show you how to use translations to improve reading fluency in your target language; and this technique may be the only way to learn to read some ancient languages.
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Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart
0:00 Intro
0:55 There's Translation, and then there's TRANSLATION
3:08 The OTHER kind of Translation
5:27 The Translation-Reading Technique
6:08 Step 1
8:12 Step 2
9:07 It’s like watching a foreign film with subtitles
10:04 This is like watching Anime
14:29 But that's not enough...
17:48 Step 3
19:18 Terence, Adelphoe
20:40 Why this works
23:17 Step 4
25:04 Where to find translations
31:13 Concluding remarks
33:06 Birds in my backyard
Is using translation cheating when it comes to learning a foreign language? In the paedagogical world of communicative Latin and Ancient Greek, we often eschew translation as an obstacle to acquisition — but there is more than one kind of "translation" ! In this video, I show you how to use translations to improve reading fluency in your target language; and this technique may be the only way to learn to read some ancient languages.
Sign up by April 12 to take part in the summer session classes at Ancient Language Institute! It's time to learn Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, and Old English! Sign up at AncientLanguage.com
Lysias Loeb edition on Amazon: amzn.to/4kPv03d
🦂 Support my work on Patreon:
patreon.com/LukeRanieri
📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks:
luke-ranieri.myshopify.com
🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella "Vir Petasātus"
learn.storylearning.com/lu-promo?affiliate_id=3932873
☕️ Support my work with PayPal:
paypal.me/lukeranieri
And if you like, do consider joining this channel:
youtube.com/channel/UCLbiwlm3poGNh5XSVlXBkGA/join
🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/latin-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables
🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/ancient-greek-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables
🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam
🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian)
youtube.com/ScorpioMartianus
🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio:
lukeranieri.com/audio
🌍 polýMATHY website:
lukeranieri.com/polymathy
🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram:
instagram.com/lukeranieri
🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast:
youtube.com/LegioXIII
👕 Merch:
teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus
🦂 ScorpioMartianus.com
🦅 LukeRanieri.com
📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon:
amzn.to/2nVUfqd
Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart
0:00 Intro
0:55 There's Translation, and then there's TRANSLATION
3:08 The OTHER kind of Translation
5:27 The Translation-Reading Technique
6:08 Step 1
8:12 Step 2
9:07 It’s like watching a foreign film with subtitles
10:04 This is like watching Anime
14:29 But that's not enough...
17:48 Step 3
19:18 Terence, Adelphoe
20:40 Why this works
23:17 Step 4
25:04 Where to find translations
31:13 Concluding remarks
33:06 Birds in my backyard
