Episode 31 (Season 4: Episode 7): Latin with Comprehensible Input? Yes! With John Bracey.

When I studied Latin in graduate school (so I could read medieval Latin texts), we never spoke it. We read it aloud, but we never had a conversation. Didn't seem practical. No one speaks Latin, right?

But what if the tenants of language acquisition applied to Latin just like they do to other languages? 

My guest today is John Bracey, a dynamic Latin teacher with a captivating story about how he came to the profession of language teaching. He's also a practitioner of comprehensible input (CI) as a foundational classroom strategy. 

In today's episode, John shares his story about how he found Latin (this is a really unique and cool story!) and how and why he adapted CI to the classroom of a "dead language." He also shares his own personal struggles with education in general and how those challenges have shaped his vision and practice as an educator. 

To learn more about John and his work, check out his website https://magisterbracey.com/