cross post: new study group for familia romana or wheelocks latin

[catholicmommy]

Sorry for the cross post.. just thought some of you might be interested in this:

 

Not sure if anyone has posted this here... while it's not a 'teaching' study group, it's certainly nice to have others to work along side and help motivate your studies. I'm trying to study latin, myself, so I can keep up with the kids.

 

There is a Familia Romana group starting soon as well as a Wheelock's beginners group.

 

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The Lingua Latina Group:

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Diana Poskrop <hariscruff@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Your are cordially invited to celebrate the birth of a second new group!

 

Name: Lux ("light")

Hostess: Diana Poskrop

Address: hariscruff@gmail.com

When: Thursday, October 6, 2011

No RSVP needed, but BYOA (Bring Your Own Assignment).

Togas are optional.

 

The e-mail with the first assignments will be sent to LatinStudy by

October 6, and due Oct. 13. All assignments will include templates

that you can copy and paste, so don't worry about formatting yet.

 

Each week, the assignment will be:

(1) to read a section of a capitulum ("chapter") from "Familia Romana"

(FR); and

(2) to write, and send to me, exercises from FR's workbook, "Exercitia

Latina I" (EL).

 

Both texts are part of Hans H. Oerberg's Lingua Latina series.

 

For most of the exercises, you need to write only the missing word(s)

or ending(s). One or two may require phrases, and there'll be some

open questions.

 

As with learning any language, it's far better to spend, say, 15 or 20

minutes a day on Latin, rather than scribbling frantically for a

couple of hours on the day that the assignment is due (though we've

all been there!).

 

If you find that the written assignments are taking up too much time,

please tell me! Don't drop the group for that reason. The exercises

can be shortened. Also, partial assignments are fine. There are no

grades here :-)

 

By cap. 14, we'll begin to spend 3 weeks on each capitulum. However,

we can start before then. Let me know at any point you feel you need

more time, and we'll discuss it. This is YOUR group!

 

By the way, cap. 1 includes many geographical names. The only ones

you need to remember are the few country names, "Roma," and

"Tusculum."

 

MATERIAL

 

** Required **

 

_Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, Pars I: Familia Romana_

by Hans H. Oerberg (sometimes spelled "Orberg")

ISBN: 978-1585104208

 

This is the latest edition, but any one from the 1980s on is fine.

It's also available on CD-ROM for Windows and Mac. See the

publisher's website below for details.

 

_Exercitia Latina I_

by Hans H. Oerberg

ISBN: 978-1585102129

 

** Not Required **

 

There's also a Latin-English vocabulary list that will come in handy

that you can download for free or buy as a booklet for $5. See the

publisher's website.

 

If you'd like to see what grammar is being covered in each capitulum,

with explanations, you might be interested in:

 

_Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Latine Disco: Student's Manual_

by Hans H. Oerberg

ISBN: 978-1585100507

 

If you'd like something much more detailed, check out:

 

_Lingua Latina: A College Companion_

by Jeanne Marie Neumann

ISBN: 978-1585101917

 

WEBSITES

 

Lingua Latina series (publisher):

http://focusbookstore.com/lingualatina.aspx

 

LatinStudy:

http://www.quasillum.com/study/latinstudy.php

 

Questions, comments, and suggestions are welcome at any time!

 

Your hostess with the mostest,

Diana Poskrop

hariscruff@gmail.com

 

The Wheelock's group:

Group: Wheelock Beginners (Septimus)

Text: Wheelock's Latin, 7th ed. rev, ISBN 978-0061997228

Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>

Comment: A chapter of Wheelock every week

Comment: Requires the new Wheelock 7th edition.

Assignments:

First assignment will be posted October 2nd.

 

 

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[mommymilkies]

I'm confused. How can I sign up for Wheelocks?

[catholicmommy]

Oops :-) sorry if it was confusing. It's part of an email list called latin study.

 

The website is here and they give a great explanation:

 

LatinStudy:

http://www.quasillum.com/study/latinstudy.php

 

You sign up for either a daily digest or individual messages (similar to a yahoo group).

 

You can email the leader of the group for more info or to join. It's open to anyone.

 

Wheelock 7th edition:

Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>

 

Familia Romana:

Diana Poskrop: hariscruff@gmail.com

 

Basically, what happens is there is an assignment sent out each week (or every two weeks depending on the leader), and then you are responsible for typing the answers into the template that the leader emails you. This enables the leader to collate everyone's answers (using some special computer program) and he/she posts the collation to the email group.

 

This way, you can easily compare your answer to everyone else's to see if you are on the right track. It's called a study group because there isn't a 'teacher'.. it's just people studying together. There are groups of all abilities on the list, so if you have a question about something related to latin, you can ask it on the list and you will usually get a quick response from an expert :-)

 

Does that make sense?