Saved by Latin!

I'm not really stressed these days. Perhaps that's why I haven't been blogging. 

Something funny happened this evening, however. Maybe it's blog-worthy. I had to teach a chapter from a vocabulary book in this one particular class, which has only one student. He usually takes the book home with him, and I hadn't thought to ask him to leave it with me one time so I could prepare in advance for subsequent classes. Because of that, I didn't realize that there was an obscure English word in today's chapter that I wouldn't be able to remember the pronunciation of.

Well, I flubbed its pronunciation. :) Then, not to leave him with wrong information, I had to look up its proper pronunciation in the middle of the lesson, emphasize that my earlier pronunciation had been incorrect, and make sure that he remembered the correct one. It was kind of embarrassing.:) 

On the next page, however, there appeared a small section with some Latin words (to show the students the Latin roots of English words). These I was able to pronounce confidently, and that kind of made up for it all. 

Haha.. saved by Latin! :)