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Tagged: Latin, Memoria Press

This topic has 4 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 7 months ago by Amy.

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November 10, 2013 at 12:17 am
Missy OH
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Does anyone on here use these? I’m interested in them because they have DVD’s. I have never taught Latin but we are carefully considering adding it. This would mainly be for dc ages 12 to 7, even though I have one hs’er that might have enough time to get one year in.
November 10, 2013 at 6:42 pm
TailorMade
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November 11, 2013 at 1:28 pm
Larkrise
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My brother (13) and I (22) had never studied Latin, so we split on Latina Christiana I this year. We did not purchase the DVDs, but my impression is they woud be necessary if you wanted the students to study without your help and you didn’t want to give them the teacher’s manual. (Both my brother and I teach each other with the manual, but we have to carefully overlook the “answers.” And the CD is invaluable for pronunciation.)
We have enjoyed it thoroughly and been challenged by every lesson. We enjoy adding the history portion (comprehenson questions would be replaced by straight narrations for a more CM approach), but we’ve mostly ignored the geography—mostly because we’re not quite sure what to do with the maps or why.
Memoria Press Latin is grammar based, and I’m sure it would be more difficult if the student didn’t already understand nouns, noun cases, subjects, adjectives, predicate adjectives, verb tenses… There’s not enough information in the Latin course for an introduction to these concepts. (My understanding is that classically trained children get much earlier exposure to grammar and parts of speech than those educated according to Mason’s philosophy.)
In our case, Latina Christiana I was a good fit, and we plan to get Latin Form I in January. If you are interested, you can read two blog posts I have written about our experience with Latina Christiana I.
I would be glad to answer any more specific questions, as best I can…
November 11, 2013 at 3:16 pm
HollyS
Participant
We are using Prima Latina. I also just use the CD. We skip most of the writing assignments and do our lessons aloud as a family. I have my older two copy the new words and prayers in place of their copywork once a week or so.
Prima Latina doesn’t cover much grammar (so far anyway)…we’ve mostly worked with nouns and verbs. I keep our lessons short, no more than 10-15 minutes.
November 14, 2013 at 4:15 pm
Amy
Member
We didn’t use the DVDs, but did enjoy First Form and Prima when we used them. We’ve switched to Visual Latin, partly because there aren’t expensive (when you X4) workbooks to buy and it leads into Lingua Latina, which I love.