What To Do Outside of Language Class?

I love taking classes with those in the living Latin and Greek community. The learning is much better when you use the language itself as the medium of discussion. If you get taught in the language, respond in the language, and everyone else around does as well, you get so much more exposure to vocabulary and the various forms in a more language-natural way. And on top of that, living Latin and Greek is just way more fun.

Though I'd like to spend many hours in conversation in and out of class each week, I'm limited by time and funds. Outside of class, when you have no one to talk to, what should you do? There are many answers, some good, some bad. I have some preferences in this regard...but are they good?

This is an area where SLA research can help. And it's for that reason that I read through Laufer and Rozovski-Roitblat's 2011 paper entitled "Incidental vocabulary acquisition: The effects of task type, word occurrence and their combination." In brief, the study is on the effectiveness of Focus on Form versus Focus on Forms for vocabulary acquisition. If you're interested in an overview of the paper or want to know what the difference between Focus on Form and Focus on Forms could possibly be, I created a video.

If you, dear reader, happen to have any recommendations for learning materials, I'd love to hear from you. In the meantime, I have things to study, so back to that.