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Getting Started with Latin: Beginning Latin for Homeschoolers and Self-Taught Students of Any Age |  | Author: William E. Linney
Publisher: Armfield Academic Press
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Sales Rank: 9220
Media: Paperback
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0979505100
EAN: 9780979505102
ASIN: 0979505100
Publication Date: June 1, 2007
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Product Description
What's preventing you from teaching Latin in your homeschool or learning it on your own? If you're intimidated because you've never studied Latin, bewildered by traditional Latin books that move too fast, or just don't know where to begin, then Getting Started with Latin is for you! Specifically designed to overcome these types of obstacles, Getting Started with Latin is divided into simple lessons that explain the fundamentals of Latin grammar in a way that anyone can grasp. Instead of burying you in mountains of information to memorize, new words and concepts are introduced in a gradual and systematic way. You can immediately apply what you've learned by translating the fun exercises at the end of each lesson. To hear the words pronounced, simply download the free MP3 files from www.gettingstartedwithlatin.com. Quickly check your work by turning to the included answer key. With everything you need here in one book, why aren't you Getting Started with Latin?
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Great Prep/Exploratory Course August 16, 2010
oakleysnow
This was a great prep course for getting into learning Latin with teaching both congagations and a variety of vocabulary. It definitely made getting into more complex forms of Latin easier.
Well structured book June 15, 2010
D. DeBoer (Sioux Falls, SD)
The lessons are broken up into consumable chunks of info. I like the way the lessons build upon each other. The kids seem to be enjoying it.
Deceptively Effective. May 4, 2010
heidi
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I mentioned this book on a homeschooling message board to a mother asking what curriculum others were using for Latin. After I explained that I planned to use this for the upcoming year, I decided to check it out again since I had not done much with it in the time since I purchased it. I opened it and read the initial suggestions and such. There is a site that is mentioned in the beginning that gives files for the various lessons of the book. These have audio files and such. There is a brief explaination in the beginning as to various ways that you can use the lessons. Then we get to the lessons. At a glance, they seem way too light. The first few introduce a single word. However, I think the author was very clever in his approach. By lesson 5 (or somewhere in the area) he has the kids translating something like 8 or 9 sentences. These sentences essentially say the same thing, but are worded differently. It is introducing the concept of word placement in Latin versus English. I read through this in a few minutes while the kids were working on an indepedent project and in five minutes highlighted the whole of the first four lessons to the kids. They were initially skeptical themselves about learning only one word or thought a day. Then I wrote the sentences for translation on the white board I had sitting beside me and they successfully translated every one of them.
My daughter who was fighting me the hardest on learning Latin told me later that she liked Latin. That she thought that she could enjoy learning it. The author very blatantly states that it is definitely only one step of the language learning process and not all that is needed to learn all there is to learn about the Latin language, but that his hopes are that the student will learn gently and have interest after completing the book enough to pursue the subject further. I know that it is not the most intensive curriculum that could be used, but I think the excitement and effectiveness that my kids used it in just the few minutes we played with it yesterday is enough to tell me that I made the best decision for us.
Perfect for Young, Eager Pupils April 19, 2010
Greta Hoostal (Warren, OH, USA)
I am home-schooling my daughter and bought this book as an easy start to Latin because I knew she had to have a classical education, but the only foreign languages I had studied were German in high school--learned how to sing a few songs but little else--and Japanese independently--about equally disastrous, and thus had figured I had no propensity for foreign languages.
I started with this book before I needed to start teaching her, and was surprised to find the Latin was not difficult. Since the lessons are very short, I would like to recommend doing at least two lessons at a time, if time permits. What has worked well for me is going straight through the book, checking definitions as necessary on previous pages because there is no glossary (the only shortfall), until the sentences become too confusing. For the next study period, I go to the answer key and translate to Latin until it becomes too confusing. Picking up where I leave off, I repeat the pattern through the whole book. It is possible to get through the book much faster than normal this way, with no depreciation in learning.
Now I have begun to teach my daughter with the book, even though she is only four-and-a-half, since she was already a very advanced reader and had started begging for Latin lessons. She loves it, and has made it about two-thirds of the way through the book with lessons off and on (four-year-olds are fickle!) for about half a year.
This book is not meant to be a standard Latin textbook. It is a gentle introduction, thus especially suitable for young children (if they are eager learners, because there are no pictures, cartoons, or anything else typically enticing for children) and those who find standard Latin textbooks intimidating. The book will not teach anyone a full year of Latin, but will make Latin familiar enough that one has a head start and the beginning of that year is not a shock. By the way, the next easiest Latin textbook with classical methodology (thus, an ideal Latin textbook after this one, for young children and others not quite ready for intensive Latin study) is Nutting's Latin Primer. It has the added benefits of classical illustrations and anecdotes aimed at children about Ancient Rome.
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