Interviews and thoughts on learning Koine and Ancient Greek Cover photo by silversea on Unsplash
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Stories of the science at the Wellcome Genome Campus and the people behind it. With this free podcast, we aim to provide access to conversations we are privileged to have every day on campus. If you like science, but don't know the career options available or where they could lead you, this is the podcast for you! If you have enjoyed listening to Decoding Life head over to 'Your Digital Mentor Podcast', also from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or whereve ...
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Interview with Sawyer Moranville of Lingua Deo Gloria
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Lingua Deo Gloria links: Website Twitter/X YouTube Intro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright2022 Licensed under a CreativeCommons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Wally Tungsten(http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/65571)
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Resources mentioned: Luke Ranieri's Ephemeris technique Amazon: O Pharos by Adrian Hundhausen Intro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright2022 Licensed under a CreativeCommons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Wally Tungsten(http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/65571)
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Language Card Games Leitner box tutorial: https://youtu.be/HN0OUnLxFeU?si=OxNbfBZE12PIP81E Intro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright2022 Licensed under a CreativeCommons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Wally Tungsten(http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/65571)
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Links Jenny's Website: argos-didaskei.com YouTube: Ancient Greek with Argos Google Doc for organizing collaboration: here Intro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright2022 Licensed under a CreativeCommons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Wally Tungsten(http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/65571)…
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Interview with Timothy Brady in which we talk about his new Greek Reader and how to manage vocabulary and phrasing to learn to speak or write a specific period of Greek. Links: Reading Greek with the Desert Fathers (book) Intro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright2022 Licensed under a CreativeCommons Attribution (3.0) lice…
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Interview with Michael Kopf of Agros Education
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Interview with Michael Kopf of Agros Education Website: https://sites.google.com/view/agros-edu/ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/AGROS_edu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AGROS_edu Facebook: https://facebook.com/agrosedu Email: agros.edu@gmail.com Intro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright2022 Licensed under a CreativeCom…
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Memory Techniques for Ancient Greek: a Comprehensible Input Approach
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Resources Lynne Kelly's Memory Craft Anthony Metivier's Magnetic Memory Method Mattias Ribbing and his book with Per Sundin, Maths Unwrapped Intro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright2022 Licensed under a CreativeCommons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Wally Tungsten(http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/65571)…
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In this episode I’m talking with Rogelio Toledo, who along with Jenny Teichmann ran Triodos Trivim. Rogelio and Jenny decided to close Triodos Trivium at the end of last year, so I thought I’d find out what they’re up to now. Links: Rogelio’s website SummerSchool that Rogelio and Jenni Glasser are running Rogelio’sYouTube Channel Gospel ofJohn with…
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Please welcome back to the Podcast Dr. Seumas Macdonald. Links: Website: https://thepatrologist.com/ Bluesky YouTube Intro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright2022 Licensed under a CreativeCommons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Wally Tungsten(http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/65571)…
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Interview with Angela Taylor of Alpha with Angela
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In this episode I’m talking with Angela Taylor who produces the Alphawith Angela YouTube channel. We talk about how she began learning Greekand spend most of the episode talking about Alpha with Angela and whatit takes to produce a series like it. Alpha with Angela is a free Comprehensible Input based series thatassumes little to no prior knowledge…
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Cognitive Load Theory and learning Greek [Solo episode]
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In this episode I talk about Cognitive Load Theory and what I think are some of its implications and applications for us as language learners. This is based mostly on my reading of Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory in Action by Olliver Lovel. Intro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright2022 Licensed under a CreativeCommons Att…
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Interview with Monique Neal on Koine Greek Advent/Christmas music
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We talk about Koine Greek Advent and Christmas music and Monique's teaching with the Circe Institute. Monique Neal: Monique.c.neal@gmail.com Circe Institute GreekApprenticeship Program Circe Institute Music mentioned Today theVirgin ChristosGenatai [Christos Genatai](https://youtu.be/hIaLOmg0gsE?si=zTP8HNHS1W7Mj0fF) Text of the Homilyby Gregory the…
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Language learning and Dopamine [Solo episode]
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How dopamine works in our brain and how this affects our ability to focus, do hard things, and how we can leverage this system to increase motivation. Huberman Lab Podcast: Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination and Optimize Effort How to Increase Your Willpower and Tenacity Intro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyrigh…
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Thoughts for independent language learners [Solo episode]
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Some thoughts for independant language learners I got from reading Don't Go Back to School by Kio Stark. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Go-Back-School-Handbook/dp/0988949008 Intro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright2022 Licensed under a CreativeCommons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Wally Tungsten(http://dig.ccm…
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Thoughts on the Iverson method [Solo episode]
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Some thoughts on the Iverson method for vocabulary learning. It's a quick, simple wordlist based approach and I think it may have some potential to fit into a CI based learning routine. Links YouTube: Language Learning 1: NJL Iversen's Wordlist method
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Tune in today for something different. I’m talking with Colin Gorrie about Old English and his journey to learn and teach an even more niche ancient language. Links Website Youtube Twitter Substack Ancient Language Institute's Old English page
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Reading of LGPSI Cpt 3 in Lucian Pronunciation. Text by Seumas Macdonald: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata/003.html
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In this interview I'm talking with Leigh Cobley, but you probably know him better as Leandros Corieltauvorum. He's one of the two people behind The Ancient Greek Podcast. Leigh didn't start out learning Greek in formal classes. He started through language exchanges or intercâmbios. We talk about the importance of motivation and community to languag…
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In this episode I talk with Kevin Grasso, one of the founders of Biblingo. Kevin's story is a bit different than some of the other people I've interviewed. He started out trying to apply communicative methods early on. Now, he's also trying to bring insights from general linguistics into the Koine Greek world. We talk about second language acquisit…
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Quick tip: How to figure out if a word in the GNT is worth learning with STEPBible
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If you're reading the GNT, STEPBible makes it really easy to figure out if a word is worth learning or not by making word frequency info easy to find. Here's how.
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In this episode, I talk with Andrew Morehouse. Andrew's a high school Latin and Ancient Greek teacher. He's also one of the founders of Latinitas Animi Causa, a site offering resources as well as classes in Ancient Greek and Latin. Tune in for a great conversation about his Greek journey. We also talked about about how Second Language Acquisition r…
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In this episode I talked with Michael Halcomb. A Greek professor, pastor, podcaster, and one of the founders of GlossaHouse. This was a great conversation, especially if you're learning Greek in a class or program that doesn't use communicative based methods. Michael shares how he incorporated more natural and communicative methods into the courses…
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Interview with Jenny and Rogelio of Triodos Trivium about their journey into Ancient Greek
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In this episode I'm talking with Jenny and Rogelio of Tridos Trivium about their journey into Ancient Greek. Jenny and Rogelio teach Latin and Greek online and create some truly wonderful YouTube videos in Ancient Greek. Website: https://www.triodos-trivium.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@triodostrivium Twitter: https://twitter.com/triodostr…
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A reading of LGPSI, chapter 2 by Seumas Macdonald. Text: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata/002.html
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A reading of LGPSI, Chapter 1 by Seumas Macdonald Text: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata/001.html LGPSI homepage: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata/
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Interview with James Tauber on the Greek Learner Texts Project
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In this episode I interview James Tauber about the Greek Learner Texts Project. This episode's a little different, but it's valuable and was a lot of fun to record. Links James's website: https://jtauber.com/ Greek Learner Texts Project: https://greek-learner-texts.org/ Paul Nation's publications: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-…
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An explanation of my thoughts on how humans learn languages and what that means for how we go about doing it as adult learners.
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1st John 1 reading in a Lucian pronunciation
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The text of 1st John 1 used is from the SBL Greek New Testament (https://www.sblgnt.com/), which is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (https://www.sblgnt.com/license/)
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Interview with Luke Ranieri on how he got into Greek
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An interiew with Luke Ranieri about how he got started with Greek, some of the things he's used, his thoughts on resources, and pronunciaiton schemes, and more Links Luke's website: https://lukeranieri.com/ PolyMATHY: https://www.youtube.com/@PolymathyLuke ScorpioMartianus (Latin): https://www.youtube.com/@ScorpioMartianus Legio XIII (Latin and Gre…
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I used the song Good King Wenceslas to learn the Greek Alphabet. Maybe it will help you too? Or at least you can laugh at my singing ;-) Intro and outro music: Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright 2022 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/65571 Ft: Wally Tungsten (http:/…
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An interview with Dr. Seumas Macdonald of www.thepatrologist.com about his journey learning Koine and Classical Greek. He's a teacher, tutor, and author of comprehension based materials for learning and teaching Greek. He offers some very practical advice for learning Greek.
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Socialising Genomics with Professor Anna Middleton
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For the final episode of this season, we spoke to Professor Anna Middleton. Anna is Head of Society and Ethics Research at the Sanger Institute and has spent her career investigating the ways in which genomics research impacts society. It was amazing to hear about the groundbreaking research that Anna has done, from her PhD research into attitudes …
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Connecting Communities: Inclusive Science Communication with Em Dixon
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This week we had the opportunity to speak with Em Dixon. Em loved science growing up, but discovered that it was seeing the benefits of communicating the research that got her really excited. We had a lovely conversation covering the paths into science communication, why it is so important, and how it can be used to improve diversity and inclusion …
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Manning the Lifeboats with Lindsey Crosswell
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Lindsey Crosswell is Head of External Relations at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), an organisation that sits on the Wellcome Genome Campus alongside The Wellcome Sanger Institute and many others. Lindsey has had an extensive career spanning many industries, this vast experience is something she has brought to her current role. It …
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Exploring the Single Cell Universe with Dr. Sarah Teichmann
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Dr. Sarah Teichmann is a group leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in cellular genetics, and co-founded the Human Cell Atlas. We start with the science of protein structure and move into single cell genomics and the human cell atlas. We discuss the global perspective that has motivated her research from her PhD to now. We also dive into what it…
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Transcription of a Life in Science with Dr Alena Pance
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Dr Alena Pance has had an incredible career traversing neuroscience, cancer, and tropical parasite research. She has always had a focus on transcriptional regulation and it was incredible hearing about how she adapted to these very different fields. Alena was very honest in this interview about her two very different experiences of having children …
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GWAS, Serendipity, and Female Leadership with Dr Gosia Trynka
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Dr Gosia Trynka is a group leader at the Sanger Institute and Experimental Science Director at Open Targets. Her group works on immune genomics as they study how human genetic variation impacts the immune system and predisposes people to develop autoimmune diseases. In today's episode we hear not only about this science, but also about her transiti…
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Microbes to mentors: the more the merrier with Dr Christine Boinett
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Dr Christine Boinett is a bioinformatician at the Sanger institute who started her career as a wet lab scientist studying antimicrobial resistance. She is incredibly passionate about ensuring equitable access to bioinformatics training across the globe. This passion has spilled over into the making of a podcast, along with colleagues, called Your D…
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The talent of technicians with Burcu Bronner-Anar
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Burcu made a brave career change recently into management, as leader of the technician commitment at Sanger. It was great to hear about how her experience as a wet lab technician has helped her in this role, tackling the issues that technicians and technical experts face throughout their careers. Plentiful experience in the malaria lab at Sanger de…
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Asking for what you want with Dr. Anne Bishop
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Anne joined us to talk about her incredible research career and her experience of returning to research after an 8 year break, through the Janet Thornton fellowship. She also shares incredible insights into life with twins and the balance she has found. Here are some resources that you might find useful after listening to our conversation with Anne…
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From pirouettes to programming with Harriet Craven
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Harriet started her career in software development peering over the shoulder of her flatmate. This seems to be a beginning that resonates with many women in coding. Harriet is passionate that it shouldn't fall to luck for girls to find out about coding, like it did for her. In this episode we explore life as a software developer while studying part…
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Subscribe now to Decoding Life, a brand new podcast series Launching on Monday 8th March. Kathryn and Sophie will be joined by some incredible women from a range of different careers, all contributing to the science being carried out at the Wellcome Genome Campus. From software developers to researchers, each one of these amazing women have all con…
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