Leigh Bortins
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Common Latin Book Club | Episode 8: Sum, Esse
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August 17, 2026
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1:01:19Now PlayingEpisode 8 of the Common Latin Book Club, recorded August 12, 2026. Leigh Bortins hosts, joined by Jennifer Courtney, Chief Academic Officer, Timothy Knotts, Director of Challenge Development, and Kathy Donegia, Curriculum Developer and author of Common Latin.
This is the first lesson-by-lesson episode. After six episodes covering the six tasks in overview, the group now works through Tour 1, Lesson 1 exactly as a family would at home: the irregular verb sum, esse -- "to be," "I am" -- studied through all six tasks against Exodus 3:14.
They open with the three vision statements of the grammar strand, then read the Vulgate aloud, recite the present system catechism, build a two-word vocabulary list, attend to the verb chart, study what a linking verb does, and finally parse and translate the verse. Along the way: why reading aloud comes before parsing, how to start with your least accomplished Latin student, why a Latin verb can stand alone without a subject pronoun, and what Jerome's "qui est" tells us about translation as an art.
Next session: Lesson 2, first declension nouns.
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