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Robert FradkinRobert Fradkin has taken an unusual route to the classics. He majored in Russian at Boston University (1973) but took his junior year abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he learned Hebrew and Arabic. In graduate school at Indiana University he continued in Slavic linguistics and added minors in Semitic and Turkic linguistics, receiving a Ph.D. in 1985. He taught Hebrew at University of Washington in Seattle (1982-85) and was Assistant Professor of Hebrew at Brown University (1985-90). Coming back to his Slavic background he moved to the Russian program at Old Dominion University (1990-95) and was visiting professor of Russian at Duke University (1995-96). In 1996 he came to the University of Maryland’s Department of Asian and East European Languages, which houses both Hebrew and Russian. In 1998 he decided to fill a long-felt gap in his linguistic background: Latin. For the next several years he took classes in the University of Maryland Classics department and began to gave papers on Latin grammar at the semiannual meetings Classical Association of the Atlantic States. Given the need in the Washington metropolitan area for Latin teachers, he decided to make a career switch to teaching Latin in Maryland high schools. His scholarly interests include the phonological and morphological structures of the Slavic and Semitic languages, language contact, historical linguistics, applications of linguistic study to language teaching and teacher training, and the development of writing systems and their relation to language structure. At the University of Maryland he developed a unique course, “History of the Alphabets: Hebrew-Arabic-Greek-Latin-Cyrillic” focusing on the rise of an alphabetic writing system in the eastern Mediterranean and its spread throughout most of the current literate world. His 1991 book, Stalking the Wild Verb Phrase: English Grammar for English Speakers Learning Other Languages, sought to bridge the gap between cognitive and intuitive learning. In 1996 he combined his linguistic and pedagogical experience and his life-long love of classical music to publish The Well-Tempered Announcer: A Pronunciation Guide to Classical Music. Currently, he is completing a book on a new approach to teaching Latin grammar, Latin Inflectional Strategies: The Sense Behind Conjugation and Declension (with a Dictionary of Latin Stems). To view his home page with current projects and research
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