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| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5727 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 9 of 16 12 May 2012 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Is it thorough? Would you recommend it?
I assumed it wouldn't be like Lingua Latina, but it might be a decent course. It seems people like it looking at the reviews. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6657 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 10 of 16 12 May 2012 at 11:38pm | IP Logged | ||
It's thick. I haven't used it, just looked through it. But from my first impression it looks like it would be just as good as the PD courses you can find at textkit.com. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5727 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 11 of 16 12 May 2012 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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OK. Thanks again.
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| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5343 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 12 of 16 13 May 2012 at 1:39am | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't examined that particular textbook, but if it has more English than Latin (as seems to be the case from Hampie's comments) it isn't anything special.
Latin, Greek and Sanskrit textbooks suffer terribly from this grievous approach, where page after page is dedicated to explanations and analysis in the instruction language and only as an afterthought are we treated to a miserly and plainly insufficient supply of material in the language we're actually studying. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5727 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 13 of 16 13 May 2012 at 2:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I think most texts have more English in them than in the target language. The book I have now for Latin is good, and it has more English than Latin.
I think I'll try to go as far as I can using materials from textkit because I need to get into the habit of using free resources rather than buying resources. I'm also interested in trying out Ancient Greek, so that site is good for that, too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5563 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 14 of 16 13 May 2012 at 12:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Have you looked at Evan Millner's latest offering -
http://store.payloadz.com/details/1003308-audio-books-langua ges-step-1-50-millner-serial- and-oral-latin-course-3-hours-5-mins-.html 200 short progressive lessons (and growing), with exercises for $2 per 50 lessons and printer paper if you don't want to use the internet. Based on Adler and Comenius, it looks like a nice introduction to me. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5727 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 15 of 16 13 May 2012 at 6:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Evan Millner's course
19 lessons on YouTube I really enjoyed his French serial and oral course, and did about 30 lessons out of the 31 he has up. I think it's a great method to learn a language. Thanks for mentioning it. Unfortunately, I don't know how to unzip Winzip files. Edited by Michael K. on 13 May 2012 at 6:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Antanas Tetraglot Groupie Lithuania Joined 4810 days ago 91 posts - 172 votes Speaks: Lithuanian*, English, Russian, German Studies: FrenchB1, Spanish | Message 16 of 16 15 May 2012 at 1:34am | IP Logged | ||
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I have tried CD-ROM version of Lingua Latina. The main advantage over the printed one is that one can do exercises and be instantly corrected by computer.
I have also a printed book of Familia Romana and I enjoyed reading it far more than staring into computer screen. The main advantage (there are others of course) of this course, IMHO, is audio. Ørberg has made audio recordings of all except the last four lessons of the first volume of his course. I like his pronunciation. It's neither French (like Assimil) nor English (like TY Beginner's Latin) but, again, that is my personal preference. Maybe it's just me but I learn better by hearing. So, yes, I think they are worth 6 bucks. It's a pity that the second part of LLPSI (Roma Aeterna) does not have audio recordings (except of several questions to each lesson). It would have made it a killer Latin course. Just imagine listening to the stories from Aeneid and other classical sources in Latin. I would pay additional $60 for that and, perhaps, even more. There is also Lingua Latina: A College Companion, by J.M. Neumann, a companion to the first volume of LLPSI (also published by Focus) but I found Ørberg's own Latine Disco much more interesting and informative. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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