WiseOwlKnits Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) Help me decide on a Latin program for DD. We've finished Song School Latin and she loved it. I'd like something she and I can work through together to learn Latin since I don't have a Latin background. I really want a solid foundation for Latin - DD wants to be a doctor when she grows up. Even if she changes her mind later on, I figure a strong basis of Latin will help her. :) I originally thought we'd go with LfC, but I've read great things about Lively Latin and Prima Latina too. HELP! :) Edited March 28, 2012 by Hill Country Classical Academy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Just to offer something different- Have you looked at the suggestions on Don Potter's Latin page? Mandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wapiti Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 GSWL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 LFC. LFC A was my first Latin, and I'm on my second pass with my current third grader (as well as currently doing SSL and LA with my others). We love CAP on the whole, Headventureland is fabulous (free) fun, and SSL to Latin Alive ensures I'm not hunting for the next step in a couple years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyLittleWonders Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 We were using Latin for Children A with both my oldest and middle sons, but it was a bit much, even for my fifth grader. So, I bought Getting Started with Latin and we are all enjoying it. My plan is to do the entire book together and then to restart LfC A. I really love the LfC program, as do my boys (they are quite taken with Magister), but I felt we needed something a bit gentler. I tried Prima Latina, but it was almost mind-numbingly slow, maybe because we already had some LfC A under our belts. GSWL is a great fit here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Seconding GSWL. It is so much more affordable than the other options. I like that it teaches one new thing at a time and provides lots of English-to-Latin (and Latin-to-English) translation practice. It's great for a first intro to Latin and I know three members on this forum whose kids went directly to Henle after GSWL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomandlorih Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Help me decide on a Latin program for DD. We've finished Song School Latin and she loved it. I'd like something she and I can work through together to learn Latin since I don't have a Latin background. I really want a solid foundation for Latin - DD wants to be a doctor when she grows up. Even if she changes her mind later on, I figure a strong basis of Latin will help her. :) I originally thought we'd go with LfC, but I've read great things about Lively Latin and Prima Latina too. HELP! :) Almost exactly the situation at my house!! So... :bigear::bigear::bigear: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corraleno Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Seconding GSWL. It is so much more affordable than the other options. I like that it teaches one new thing at a time and provides lots of English-to-Latin (and Latin-to-English) translation practice. It's great for a first intro to Latin... :iagree: Only $10 for the Kindle or Nook version (both of which can be read on a computer), $20 for the print version, and the MP3s are free on the author's website. Jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 My son, third grade loved SSL too. He cried when we finished. We started Lively Latin a couple weeks ago and he is loving it too! Thank goodness :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4littleones Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 My 3rd grader boy does great with Latina Christiana I. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivka Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I can't say enough good things about Lively Latin. It's been a huge hit here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenC3 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 We've been doing a combo of Latin Primer and Visual Latin. We love both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudoMom Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I would do a combination of Visual Latin and Getting Started with Latin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I would look at GSWL or Great Latin Adventure (GLA). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Rebecca has been doing well with LFC A. We'll move on to B next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiseOwlKnits Posted March 29, 2012 Author Share Posted March 29, 2012 Wow! I'm going to have to give GSWL another look to figure out what I'm missing with it. I wasn't so impressed with it when I looked through it, but so much positive feedback warrants another look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiseOwlKnits Posted March 29, 2012 Author Share Posted March 29, 2012 We've been doing a combo of Latin Primer and Visual Latin. We love both. I would do a combination of Visual Latin and Getting Started with Latin. Thanks for mentioning Visual Latin. I've never heard of it so I'll check it out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 I'm 90% sure we'll be trying I Speak Latin in the fall. It looks really easy to learn, fun, and has a pronunciation guide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Just to throw a different wrench in the works, my DD has really loved the materials from Cambridge-Minimus, Minimus Secundus, and Cambridge Latin. It's whole-part rather than part-whole, so you're learning by reading. I do also have LfC A and B, but what I discovered was that while DD enjoyed LfC A (admittedly, she was doing it at age 6), she didn't retain the vocabulary at all well, even with Headventureland games. But once we started doing the reading/translation based Cambridge materials, she started retaining a lot more vocabulary. We continued to play the games on the site and I keep the chant CD in rotation in our carschooling playlists too, and this year she started doing the LfC A activity book as "fun practice". I'm sure she's not getting the same level of recall and understanding that she'd get if she were doing it as a high school course, but I'm impressed by what she's picking up and she's just plain enjoying Latin and being able to read Latin (she was reading inscriptions in the Medieval room of a local art museum today :) ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadeOrchidSong Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 My ds9 and ds7 finished GSWL just after ds7 turned 7. They both learned well. I recommend it highly. We are now using Lively Latin 1, but this is because I want to slow down before we start Latin Prep. We are doing Lively Latin 1 very fast, 1 lesson in a week because it is very easy after we did GSWL. In 10 weeks or so we will move on to Latin Prep. If ds7 had been older when we finished GSWL, we would move right to Latin Prep. So I recommend GSWL highly. I tried Latin for Children A and sold it. I couldn't imagine doing it since it was so boring with far from enough practice for the concepts learned. Lively Latin is good, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiseOwlKnits Posted March 29, 2012 Author Share Posted March 29, 2012 Just to offer something different- Have you looked at the suggestions on Don Potter's Latin page? Mandy Thanks for suggesting this site! I downloaded some books after seeing them on there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristinannie Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 I vote for Latina Christiana. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melenie Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Just to offer something different- Have you looked at the suggestions on Don Potter's Latin page? Mandy Thanks for this link. :-) We like GSWL as well. For 2nd grade we memorized the vocabulary in GSWL and for 3rd we will get more into the grammar. It is easy to do with the younger kids and you do not need any Latin knowledge to teach it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medieval Mom Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Yet another recommendation for GSWL. We love it here! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElegitNos Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 Help me decide on a Latin program for DD. We've finished Song School Latin and she loved it. I'd like something she and I can work through together to learn Latin since I don't have a Latin background. I really want a solid foundation for Latin - DD wants to be a doctor when she grows up. Even if she changes her mind later on, I figure a strong basis of Latin will help her. :) I originally thought we'd go with LfC, but I've read great things about Lively Latin and Prima Latina too. HELP! :) What does "solid foundation" mean? Does it mean fluency, or does it mean repeating paradigms? For me and my kids, it means fluency. So, what I'm doing is a direct-immersion approach. For thirty minutes a day we speak in Latin. Yes, our vocabulary is limited, our expressions are limited, our fluency is limited, but we actually use the language rather than learn about the language, and we are growing. As a guide we use Lingua Latina, Familia Romana Pars I. Grammar comes only after active experience with the language. If you're interested the direct approach was pioneered by Rouse (editor, Loeb Classics) headmaster at the Perse school (in Cambridge, I think) c. 1900. Anyway, you can find plenty if you google Rouse, Orberg. Vale! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 We'll be using GSWL for 3rd. I bought the Kindle version. It's great! Makes so much sense to my non-Latin brain. :D My son liked the first few lessons we tried out too. It also has free audio to go along with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 Another glowing recommendation for GSWL! It's especially good for parents who don't know Latin themselves, as it's easy to learn it alongside of the child. We started with that toward the end of third grade and are moving on to Latin's Not So Tough for fifth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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