FYI:  I’m planning on posting new blog messages at least every Tuesday.  Hold me to it!  Here’s the first:

What I did on my summer vacation…

I worked like crazy on BigBook 2.  I’m pitifully slow, as many of you know, and I don’t always have realistic expectations of what I can accomplish in a day, week, or month (I’m working on improving in that area!).  It’s not always easy to find the exact image I have in my mind to illustrate something.  A simple thing like finding an image of a sword can turn into a half hour search for the right shape, color, etc.

For those of you who have been asking, I have to report that I expect all the grammar and derivative work to be finished by or before Sept 15, the history to follow a month later, and the initial CDs to be burned shortly after that.  This book will end up about a third larger than BB1 (I’m  thinking of calling it “The Bigger Book of LivelyLatin.”) and will have the same features:  audio files, online vocab games, a My History of Rome, Vol 2 section, etc.

There are presently over 200 pages of BigBook 2 presently in the virtual classroom.  That should keep new students busy until the release of the whole book in October.  There are a few students who are caught up to me.  For these, you can email me to request the lesson files as they exist at present: word files not yet put into PDF pending final proof-reading.

OK, let me get back to work…