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| Demiurg Triglot Newbie Turkey Joined 5075 days ago 12 posts - 19 votes Speaks: English, Turkish*, German Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 4 21 September 2011 at 6:35pm | IP Logged |
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Hello. After studying Latin for some time through Cambridge Latin Course, I've decided
that it won't serve me any good to keep on reading Latin without really knowing the language. So I decided to take AP Latin the next year. However, I have problems on how to study the language (It will be self-study). I have Wheloock's Lating and Workbook, 4 of the North American Cambridge Latin Courses and an English-Latin dictionary. What I plan to do is work on Wheelock's Latin and Workbook and simultaneously research and read on Roman culture and literature. When I get a good enough command of Latin, I'll read more advanced Latin literature. Once I'm comfortable with the language used in literature, I'll start working with Aeneid (will take probably around a year to do) and the Iliad and Odyssey (in English of course) and focus deeply on grammar and literary techniques and but a prep book on the AP and prepare. Sorry for post length, but how would you rate this strategy and what would you advise me to do or not to do? Thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6662 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 2 of 4 21 September 2011 at 9:28pm | IP Logged |
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What is AP?
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5970 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 4 21 September 2011 at 9:57pm | IP Logged |
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In the US, you can take college-level classes in high school if your school offers them. They are called AP (Advanced Placement) courses, and at the end of the course, if you pass the AP exam for it, you receive academic credit and don't need to take the equivalent class when at univerity. There are a few of these courses available for commonly studied languages. Edited by meramarina on 21 September 2011 at 9:59pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6473 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 4 of 4 22 September 2011 at 4:13pm | IP Logged |
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It sounds like a decent strategy. I think Wheelock doesn't deserve its high reputation
because it leaves a lot of things unexplained, or suddenly uses the future tense in an exercise about the present, but I'm unaware of a better textbook on the North American market. When I teach Latin online, I have my own materials. Since the language is quite far from modern European languages in its structure and style, the sooner you start to read authentic texts, the better. I typically spend only 25 classroom hours teaching [a small group of motivated online] students Latin grammar and a basic vocabulary. After that, they're already ready to study selected non- simplified passages from various Roman authors, with the help of a vocabulary list of course. I treat this as an overview and actually squeeze in a lot of authors into the next 20-25 hours: Caesar, Cicero, Phaedrus (Aesop's fables), Martial, Catullus, Tacitus, Seneca, Livy, Nepos, Pliny, Suetonius, Plautus, Horace, Juvenal, Ovid, Lucretius and Virgil (roughly in order of difficulty, of the selected passages at least). This way, they can get a taste and later decide what they enjoyed reading and what they want more of. So after less than 50 hours, you could be at a level to independently study whichever one of these authors you enjoyed the most. The AP Latin exam requires detailed knowledge of Virgil, so it's good to dedicate a lot of time to that, though one year shouldn't be necessary. It depends on how much practice you had spotting stylistic devices in English or in your native language. In Latin there are more of them, and used more skillfully, but the biggest hurdle is to learn to recognize any at all, rather than being drawn in by the content. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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