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What Latin after Lively Latin Big Book 2?!


CarrieF
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Looking for anyone who has a child(ren) that have gone through Lively Latin 1 & 2 and then continued on with Latin . . . what did you move to after LL and why?!

I have been looking through the Memoria Press catalog but can't figure out where my son would "fit" in with the First Form sets and/or Henle. Is there anything else out there that would be better?!

Any thoughts or suggestions welcomed and appreciated. : )

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If your student is 10 or older, then Latin Prep is a good option. Some of it will be review after Lively Latin, but it moves faster, so your LL basis will be very helpful. There are samples here. It's available in the US from horriblebooks.com, or from the UK with free shipping from bookdepository.co.uk

 

Laura

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I've done up to half way through level 3. I can't compare it to LL, but by the end of level 3, you will be pretty much prepared to start reading original texts of the Roman period.

 

One of our boardies here worked out that LP 1-3 were very roughly equivalent to the language elements of US high school Latin years one and two.

 

Laura

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(sorry if this is a hijack . . . )

 

So, Laura, what is the next step for a kid who started Latin Prep at 10/5th grade, and goes through a book a year? Or even 3 books in 4 years, to be done by the end of 8th?

 

 

Well, that would be a fairly normal schedule in the UK. The mismatch is that foreign languages are commonly started younger in the UK than in the US. Calvin got to the equivalent of Latin Prep 3 plus a bit by the time he was fifteen (the last couple of years were in school). Now he's moving on from there: consolidating his grammar but spending most of his time getting deeply into Latin literature. He's very excited by Latin poetry for example.

 

For home educators: firstly, I wouldn't rush through LP too fast. We actually did the first half of book 3 twice, because it was stuffed full of material and we had rushed it. He probably spent four years at home on 2 1/2 books, in the end. If he had stayed at home I would have put him into Galore Park's SY Latin Book 3 after we finished LP. SY Latin is designed for older children and the last book extends the content of LP3. So a child starting at 10, progressing as Calvin, did might finish SY 3 at about age 15. At that stage, I think that finding a specialist tutor/college class and diving into the literature would be perfect.

 

Of course, it all depends how much time you spend on the language. Calvin was studying Chinese for all the time he studied Latin, and we added in French when he was twelve.

 

Laura

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