Do you study LATIN ahead of your children?

[AudreyTN]

This is something that never really occurred to me. I just figured I'd learn it along with them. Now I'm wondering if I should get a small head start.

[KAR120C]

We're using Lingua Latina, and I've heard from about a billion others now that I really need to be about ten chapters ahead of him.... I'm not quite there yet but we're still in the easy early chapters ;)

[Beth in Central TX]

I would suggest getting ahead of your children as you move to higher level books. When we did Prima Latina and even Latina Christiana I, I didn't feel a pressing need to be ahead of my boys. When we started Latina Christiana II, I saw the need to actually know what I was talking about. The concepts become more difficult because you're dealing with declension, gender, case, and number, and that's just for one word. I find that Latin is easier to explain when I'm confident in what I'm saying, and I can actually do the translation work myself.

 

I'm planning on Wheelock's next year, and I started working through the book last summer. It has actually helped my teach LCII better because I understand the concepts more thoroughly now. In addition, I've worked through R&S Grammar 6 which has helped me understand the Latin grammar and vice versa.

[LisaNY]

This is something that never really occurred to me. I just figured I'd learn it along with them. Now I'm wondering if I should get a small head start.

 

I HIGHLY recommend learning Latin well ahead of your dc. It will make your job of teaching it to them SO much easier.

[Shelly in VA]

OK, so my "yes" actually means that I am at the point where I need to start working ahead of my children. I have just ordered Lingua Latina and Henle for that purpose. We are in LCII this year, and just like Beth mentioned above, I was fine through Prima Latina and LCI, but in LCII I am seeing the need for me to have a better understanding of what I am teaching. Hopefully Lingua Latina and Henle will do this for me!

[Karen in CO]

I took four years of Latin in high school. My pronunciation stinks a badly now as it ever did, but I remember a surprising amount (once I started dusting off those brain cells). I just do a quick read before the lesson, like I would any subject and then go from there. My high school classics courses are one of the big reasons I have been drawn to classical education.

[Anne in Hawaii]

This summer, though, I went back to the beginning of Henle and got a good handle on it and got well ahead of them. Now I try to stay at least a week ahead.

[Sunshine State Sue]

I learned Latin with my son for 3 years. Thankfully, we are using a tutor now. At first I didn't have to, but about the last 1/2 year I did need to stay a lesson ahead. Sometimes, I had questions that I had answer for myself first.

 

Sue

[TCoppock]

We are just starting in Latin with Prima Latina and I am ok just sitting with DS through the lesson. I guess I will need to look ahead in the future though.

[Pensguys]

I voted no.

 

I know I probably SHOULD, but I've been learning right along right now (we're in Latin Prep I). I really have no desire to learn ahead and the only reason I'm learning alongside him is because we do it together. I've graduated high school and college, and as dismal as those educations were, I have no desire to further my education. I have other things I like to do with my free time.

[angela in ohio]

I chose Other because I had 3 years of Latin in high school, so I sort of have it ahead of my dc. I can't remember all of the vocabulary off the top of my head, but it comes back quickly. I do work ahead in the programs I use, though, too, so that I am prepared to teach.

[nmoira]

I refresh ahead of my DD. I took Latin in university.

[Luanne]

but I have to admit it is coming a whole lot easier to her than it is to me. *sigh*

[Snickerdoodle]

 

I would suggest getting ahead of your children as you move to higher level books.

I agree. Right now I don't see their Latin progressing by leaps and bounds so I have a little time before I start working ahead of them. We are using Prima Latina at the moment.

[Patricia in WA]

We are using Latin Prep. Oldest child is in Book 2 and she works fairly independently. She does the exercises and then checks her answers. If she gets them wrong and can't figure out why then I read the lesson over quickly and then help her. My 2nd child is in Book 1. Since I did it with his sister last year, I am finding it very easy to answer any questions he has. He is also working fairly independently. Every now and then I quiz them orally. On Fridays we usually work through a chapter of Ecce (just for something different) and they explain a lot to me then. They are finding it very easy after the grounding LP is providing.

[Jackie in AR]

Well, I used to.

 

Now my sons (both 13) are working ahead of me in Henle.

 

I'm thinking of finding an online Henle class for them in the fall.

 

Dd 10 has just begun Latin Prep I so I'll keep up to speed on what she is learning.

 

There are just so many hours in the day, kwim?