Book Nut Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I would love to have suggestions for a program that can be used more independently for high school Latin I. My dd (14) has completed several levels of Latin in the elementary/middle grades (that we're more heavy on the vocabulary) and she is the type of student that learns quickly and enjoys independent learning. I was looking at Memoria Press's First Form Latin with the DVDs...I'd love any feedback on this program (as well as other suggestions). Thanks! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Book Nut Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 Any Latin suggestions? :confused: Please? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanie Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 My kids have been using Henle Latin for self-study for a few years now. I have no complaints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahKate Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I am using Jenney's first year latin this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquinas Academy Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 So You Really Want to Learn Latin can be done independently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Book Nut Posted August 24, 2011 Author Share Posted August 24, 2011 Thanks so much; I'll check these out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Ds has completed First and Second Form Latin independently. (I intended to learn along with him, but he left me in the dust!) He "only" scored the national average on the NLE Latin 1 exam, but most of his incorrect answers were in the history/culture section. His course averages for both levels were in the high 90s (97 for Second Form!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In The Great White North Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Dd used Henle independently also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Book Nut Posted August 24, 2011 Author Share Posted August 24, 2011 Ds has completed First and Second Form Latin independently. (I intended to learn along with him, but he left me in the dust!)He "only" scored the national average on the NLE Latin 1 exam, but most of his incorrect answers were in the history/culture section. His course averages for both levels were in the high 90s (97 for Second Form!) Thanks for posting a response. I'm glad First Form (and Second) can be done independently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie-Knits Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 We are using Latin Alive and are quite pleased with it. I am learning along with my youngest ... I like the mix of dvd, exercises, and readings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomen Nescio Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 I was looking at Memoria Press's First Form Latin with the DVDs...I'd love any feedback on this program (as well as other suggestions). Thanks! :001_smile: I personally wouldn't dream of using a program that did not include macrons. Yes, I've read the author's essay on the subject. I've also read Charles Bennett's century-old declaration of the failure of the attempt to teach the restored pronunciation that he himself helped pioneer. I don't find either persuasive. You have to pick your poison, of course, and there is a great deal to be gained from studying Latin in most forms. Even when you're not using Latin, the intellectual exercise of confronting it pays dividends. But wrestling with an alien system of pronunciation is also a challenge that you'll be the better for having set yourself against. I suspect that the frustrations that lead people to embrace simplified pronunciation have less to do with the inherent difficulty of restored Latin than with the fact that Latin books give very little guidance about how pronunciation itself actually works. Latin has the makings of a great introduction to the subject of phonetics, and its lessons would pay off in studying not only foreign languages, but also your own, just as is universally acknowledged to be the case with Latin's grammar. I generally recommend Lingua Latīna per Sē Illūstrāta combined with some book of grammar. I haven't had a chance to look at the grammar book designed to go with the program, but Wheelock's would do. Read everyday, and read aloud. You can get a CD version that includes vocal readings of most of the chapters, though the speaker seems to split the difference between the classical v and the Italianate v, and so it sometimes sounds like a b. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 My 6th grader is doing First Form mostly independently (nearly finished and ready to move on to Second Form). My 8th grader uses Ecce Romani independently. Both use CDs but no DVDs. The 6th grader has suddenly started wanting to work on her own without waiting for a 'lesson;' that wasn't the plan, but she seems to be doing fine, and I will start scheduling some discussion and oral review time with her. A high schooler should have no problems. Remember, there is no reason he can't read a teacher's guide just as well as you can - hand it over! Both Ecce and First Form have the background/guidance bits separate from the exercise answers (FF actually has a different book for workbook answers). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam L in Mid Tenn Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Artes Latinae was one of SWB's recommendations in the first ed of WTM. I think it was on cassette tapes then and it was a bit cumbersome to use. I have it on CD and I understand there is a newer DVD version now. It is expensive, but completely independent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Artes Latinae was one of SWB's recommendations in the first ed of WTM. I think it was on cassette tapes then and it was a bit cumbersome to use. I have it on CD and I understand there is a newer DVD version now. It is expensive, but completely independent. I have the CD version also, and keep trying to use it, but it is so. very. boring! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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