Tuesday, January 16, 2007

A Latin Lesson

h/t Orthometer and Monty Python, I have been doing more than my allowed 45 minutes blog reading today. This video reminds me of Mr Gibson my Latin master's teaching style.

I did read somewhere that using another language every day delayed the onset of Ahlzeimer's, is that a good reason for more Latin in the liturgy?

1 comment:

Ttony said...

The first time I saw this was in Spain in the early 80s with a bunch of Spaniards in their mid-20s (the same age as me). They cracked up and told me that they all remembered their Latin teachers as being just the same.

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