Why I Wrote Clarke's Latin

Ed Clarke

doi:10.1017/s205863102100012x

Abstract

Never has the phrase annus horribilis seemed more applicable than in this past dreadful year. Virgil's lacrimae rerum have, I imagine, been with us all throughout; though I doubt that it was ‘the tiers of things’ he had in mind.

Highlights

Though very few silver linings have presented themselves beneath the black cloud of the coronapocalypse, I have endeavoured to use such extra time as it has afforded in the furtherance of my Clarke’s Latin project
The entire course spans more than 2200 pages and a 250000 words, including 20000 questions and 30000 words of continuous Latin prose
Once pupils have the hang of subordination and can cope with continuous prose – and, their first Latin composition, which follows the exercise above – they move on to the accusative case

Summary

Introduction

Though very few silver linings have presented themselves beneath the black cloud of the coronapocalypse, I have endeavoured to use such extra time as it has afforded in the furtherance of my Clarke’s Latin project. I developed a method of producing Latin words and simple phrases, as well as their English translations, through computer generation. While my first Latin course, Variatio, provided 60 questions on the present tense of first conjugation verbs, Clarke’s Latin

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