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My son has completed 1 year of Henle Latin through CC's Challenge A program. For the first half of Challenge B, he will simply review what he learned previously. Because he did well with Latin last year, I would like to supplement his curriculum for the first half of the school year so that he continues to learn new material. What Latin curriculum would you recommend?

A friend suggested Lingua Latina, but as she has never used it herself didn't know if I could get by with just the textbook (Familia Romana) or if we would need the entire set.

Another suggestion has been Picta Dicta.

What are your thoughts?

Thanks.

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Classical Conversations goes part way through Henle 1 in Challenge A. In Challenge B, they go back to the beginning and go over the same material double-time during the first semester, and then in the second semester they cover the rest of Henle 1. Because he learned the material well last year -- i.e., he wouldn't be learning any new vocabulary or endings this fall -- I am considering giving him a different Latin curriculum to supplement this fall until he reaches the new material in Henle in January. 

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I think you're smart to switch away from Henle.  My daughter switched to PS, and her vocabulary was significantly behind because Henle teaches about 25% of the quantity of vocabulary that it should.   In addition, the layout is crowded and not the easy on the eyes.   

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7 hours ago, CLMmom said:

Classical Conversations goes part way through Henle 1 in Challenge A. In Challenge B, they go back to the beginning and go over the same material double-time during the first semester, and then in the second semester they cover the rest of Henle 1. Because he learned the material well last year -- i.e., he wouldn't be learning any new vocabulary or endings this fall -- I am considering giving him a different Latin curriculum to supplement this fall until he reaches the new material in Henle in January. 

In that case, I cannot speak much for Lingua Latina other than it was one of my initial choices that my son rejected.  I think it's important to do all the books at each level, though.
What my son did end up gravitating to a bit was Cambridge Latin.  It has a similar immersion approach as LL, where they're reading Latin straight off the bat, but it can be scaled down to 1 book at a time.  We are using that to supplement First Form Latin this year - which is the first quarter or so of Henle.  Another choice is Latin's Not So Tough which is very reasonably priced.  Book 1 is alphabet, book 2 is basic vocab, book 3 begins sentences, so you could probably start around 4 or 5 for reinforcement of Henle.

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