Lege bibliam tuam.

I think today a major jump in reading speed and comprehension occurred with the gospel of John, in part because I am encountering mostly just new inflections of words I already know. The main slowdown at this point is that what I am doing is making entries for all new inflections so I can keep reminding and internalizing grammar, this is meant to be a close reading so it is intentionally very slow. But I have reached enough comfort with the text where I cleared picrel in close reading in about the same time it would have taken to do 250 words yesterday. I did roughly as much today as I have in the past 4. So far this method seems to work well. I am excited to see how fast I can be reading by the end of the gospel of John, and how quickly I can clear the other 4. Then at that point I think I'll casually read more medieval and patristic texts while making my "daily close-reading" text Caesar.

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For an example of how well doing the first 16 chapters of LLPSI prepped me, plus a 5 month period of no Latin, and a smattering of random chapters from other readers plus memorizing some prayers, here's where that has put me in vulgate comprehension when using a word highlighting/dictionary program. Red = Didn't know at all, Orange = guessed meaning from context, Yellow-Green = some mix of vaguely recognizing the word + context.