DisclaimerThe views expressed on Dead America podcast are the views of the person expressing themselves.We are here for entertainment only for any Medical or Mental Health concerns you might have. We always recommend seeking local listings for a qualified provider in your area. We will always consider other points of view on any subject. We do not necessarily agree with our guests all of the time. We value everyone. All of our guests deserve respect and a platform to voice concerns. https://www.deadamerica.website (The Dead America Website) https://www.latinforlife.com/ (Latin For Life Website) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU_OTGbBQOw (Youtube Video) Kay Neal I'm on a mission to make the study of Latin mainstream--or at least a lot closer to the mainstream than it is now. Latin is mostly absent from the curriculum at any level of our education system, but it ought to be brought back, especially in the early grades. The only place that Latin shows up in school is when Latin and Greek roots are covered, as a way of building vocabulary. But I can tell you that memorizing roots off a list is not the best way to get these extremely useful and productive words into a student’s head. If you study Latin vocabulary in the context of Latin grammar—that is, if you study Latin—you go deep into English grammar, and this is something that isn’t really taught these days. But you need grammar to make sense out of words. You have to put words together in a certain way, or they don’t mean what you want them to. Studying Latin heightens your awareness of how words work together to make meaning. In fact, studying Latin gives you a foundation that you can build all sorts of academic success on. A person who has built a solid foundation in the basics of Latin in elementary school: * Will never think that a new word is too complicated to handle. * Will be able to read difficult texts in English (I'm talking especially about the classics) and absorb the author’s meaning. * Will understand the concept that languages have different ways of getting meaning across, which means that the Latin student will be able to enjoy later experiences with foreign languages in high school or college or life. * And perhaps most confidence-building of all, will be able to recognize when it is the speaker or the writer that is at fault and not their ability to understand. I've identified three different groups to reach out to first: people who for some reason or other have always wanted to learn Latin, parents who are not too happy with the education their child is receiving in public school, and people who already studied Latin but didn't get on top of the material the first time around and want a chance to really understand it. I have three free reports (corresponding to these three groups), and I'd be happy to share any or all of them with you. They go deeper into why Latin is worth studying. The titles are: https://www.latinforlife.com/whyyouareright (* Why You Are Absolutely Right to Want to Learn Latin) https://www.latinforlife.com/fiveways (* Five Ways Your Child Is Being Shortchanged at School--and What You Can Do About It) * Why You Don't Remember Any of the Latin You Learned All Those Years Ago (and What You Can Do About It) ---------------------------------------------------- Transcript https://www.mediafire.com/file/c1yp8gitu2jtlbe/Kay_Neal_Transcript.docx/file (Download) Kay Neal SUMMARY KEYWORDS Latin, people, English, study, read, sentence, podcast, language, called, wrote, grammar, book, long, Spanish, kay, endings, learn, thought, curriculum, action SPEAKERS Ed Watters, Kay Neal Ed Watters 00:00 challenging ourselves. That's what Dead America is truly about. On today's episode, we do just that. We dive deep into learning. And we talk to an individual that wants to promote learning Latin. Latin is something that most of us don't even think about. But you know, when it boils down to it, Latin has a lot to do...