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Nina's Pacific Plains
Personal blog · blog.nina.coffeeculturewriting
Nina's Pacific Plains is a personal blog at blog.nina.coffee about culture and writing. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Books Like Lingua Latina per Se Illustrata”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its list of "nature method" language-learning books, mostly public-domain PDFs for Latin, Greek and modern European languages. Commenters cite the list as a resource.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Nina's blog. I freely express my inner trollness here.
Most-linked posts?
- Books Like Lingua Latina per Se Illustrata5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-12-25
What Hacker News says?
Thank you, had no idea this existed. Here is a link with a list that someone compiled https://blog.nina.coffee/2018/08/27/all_nature_method_books.... . The French link is broken but the others that I tried work.
Comment linking /2018/08/27/all_nature_method_books.html
on “Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?”Submitted Books Like Lingua Latina per Se Illustrata as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere's a list of similar books for other languages: https://blog.nina.coffee/2018/08/27/all_nature_method_books....
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on “Father Reginald Foster has died”There's a set of books on this, called the "direct method" or "nature method" A page with a link to several of these: https://blog.nina.coffee/2018/08/27/all_nature_method_books.... (the site that it refers to is where I initially found the same list of books, but it seems to be defunct) https://vivariumnovum.it/risorse-didattiche/propria-formazio... (defunct, it seems)
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on “The Didactic Novel”For reference: this book is obviously a (praiseworthy) ambition to have a Greek counterpart to the Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata[1] by Hans Ørberg. Ørberg's way of teaching Latin is, in my view, excellent because it is based on a natural view of learning a language: show something, say what its name is, use its name in simple sentences, work up from there. Each time introducing new words surrounded by already-know…
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on “Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata”There are actually several similar books for modern European languages, available as PDFs (in the public domain and/or out of print): https://blog.nina.coffee/2018/08/27/all_nature_method_books.... Ørberg may be the best, though.
Comment linking /2018/08/27/all_nature_method_books.html
on “How far back in time can you understand English?”
