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Jamie Kenneth Banks

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I speak Latin to read and connect

October 29, 2025

SPEAKING Latin? What an obnoxious party trick. Or are you a priest? Sounds fake. Anyway, we’re serious scholars in this department. That’s all wrong. I learned to speak Latin so I could read it more fluently. I teach Latin through spoken immersion when I can for that reason: it’s effective. And more fun–even BECAUSE it’s … More I speak Latin to read and connect

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Teach Them Fighting Words

August 16, 2025

One day it had gotten to that point and I was in the German School director’s office big mad about racism. We’re allowed to speak in English if we absolutely need to: if it’s urgent, say, medically or emotionally. It might have been easier for barely-intermediate me…but dammit, I was gonna show her I was … More Teach Them Fighting Words

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