Light video based Latin course or MOOC

[EmilyK]

My signature is out of date but I have a 15 year old high schooler who's more of the lifelong learner type than my younger child. He's a freshman in a challenging high school that really suits him. He has a pretty quiet summer planned other than some backpacking trips and family vacation. He told me that he would really like to learn some Latin over the summer. He's in his third year old high school French if that makes a difference.

 

Knowing him and his situation, he really thrives with video and audio learning. He and I are doing some fun MOOCs together, he loves watching documentaries and he likes Teaching Company type things. Is there anything like that for Latin, or even Latin and Greek word roots? I will end up doing it with him I'm sure, but I'm more up for reading oriented courses than he is, given how much reading and writing he does for school.

 

Thanks for any ideas. He's a history nut so loves anything about Roman history as well.

[arborite]

Getting Started with Latin. If he is still hungry after that there are many more options!

I haven't seen it, but there is a new Teaching Company Latin I video out now.

[Nscribe]

We bought the Teaching Company Latin video and like it.  Dd is taking Latin with Lukeoin, but the video allows for us to review.

[chiguirre]

There are dvds that teach Memoria Press' Form Latin curriculum. The forms concentrate on learning Latin grammar. There's a whole lot of chanting going on.

 

If you'd rather do a reading based class, there are You Tube videos that teach the Cambridge Latin 1 course.

 

TuTubusLatinus:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if4XZVFTK5A

[Beth in Mint Hill]

Oh my! There are so many great resources available on youtube. I don't know this teacher but he should have won some sort of award for these. I send my students here when they need extra help with more advanced Latin grammar concepts; the channel is called "Latintutorial" and here's a link:

https://www.youtube.com/user/latintutorial/featured

 

And here are my own  recorded "tutorials" for Latina Ponti, which I put together for my Latin class this past year:
http://www.summerlatin.org/LatinClasses.html

:tongue_smilie:

Hope you can get some use from them!

 

 

 

[nansk]

And here are my own  recorded "tutorials" for Latina Ponti, which I put together for my Latin class this past year:

http://www.summerlatin.org/LatinClasses.html

Thank you for sharing the link here. I have used the first few of these videos. I am a visual learner and I prefer to learn by reading books. I actually don't have patience for video instruction and yet, to my surprise, your Latina Ponti videos were just the right length and immensely helpful.

 

Do you have videos for the last four chapters of the book? I have not reached that point yet, but it would be good to have all the lessons for when I get there. Thanks!

[Beth in Mint Hill]

Yes, Nansk, I will have them up this summer... Even though my class didn't go past ch 24; Those extra chapters are sort of extra, for 'enrichment' and so we didn't cover them. But I will record tutorials for them, also.

[Beth in Mint Hill]

Oh yes, and btw, thank you so much for the nice comment! I appreciate you saying that!