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Start: 2025-06-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Tagged: Getting Started with Latin, Latin, Latin Alive, Wheelock Latin

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June 5, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Anonymous
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Has anyone used Wheelock Latin for high school level? If so, would you share your thoughts about the program? I have an opportunity to buy it today and wanted to get some input on it first. Thanks so much!
June 5, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Bookworm
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This is a good, thorough, solid program. We own a copy that my son has used for his own personal use–we use another curriculum. The weakness of Wheelock’s is the dearth of help for teachers. There are online groups I know of that use it. If you don’t know Latin already, it’ll be hard to teach it using Wheelock’s.
June 5, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Anonymous
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I don’t know much Latin. My daughter has been using Getting Started with Latin and has done excellently. The version of Wheelocks I have an opportunity to buy is the new 7th edition here:
http://wheelockslatin.com/more_wheelock.html
It also shows at the bottom of that page that there is an online teacher’s guide and the text itself has answers to the exercises in the book. It does has free online audio recordings of the pronunciation of the vocabulary. She does her foreign language on her own. That is how Getting Started with Latin is designed. So with those extras on the Wheelock’s site, do you think it would still be hard for me to keep up with her work? I usually do an assessment almost every week where she does translation exercises. But these are written.
I’ve also been looking at Linney’s Latin, which is completely free. This is the continuing course after finishing Getting Started with Latin. Unfortunately, he hasn’t finished all the lessons yet. There’s 73 chapters and he only has 46 lessons done. So I’m concerned that she’ll get to the end of the lessons that he has completed and not be able to go further. The thing that I really like about Linney’s courses is how he has the book lectures. With Getting Started with Latin, there are book lectures and vocabulary audios plus other things. She has done so well with this program. In fact, I am considering using the Getting Started with Spanish for her second language.
I have also looked at Latin Alive! and it looks good as well. It’s just a little pricey.
Any thoughts?
June 5, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Bookworm
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As she moves forward, you will eventually be needed to grade assignments. Right now, her choices of vocabulary are quite limited—going forward, they will not be. For every sentence translated, there will be maybe 10 ways to do it right–and dozens of ways to do it wrong. The only way you will know is if you know. I found it very necessary when using a book program to learn it all myself so I could grade and teach. And you need materials that will support you–for instance, listing several different ways your child could have translated the passage. You’ll want to ask if this is possible using the teacher’s guide–many of the basic programs like Wheelock’s DO have teacher’s guides–but they are intended for Latin teachers who already know Latin. For a homeschooling mom who doesn’t, you do need more support. I also don’t have any experience with the Linney’s and don’t know how long it will take to get it done.
If you are going to use Wheelock’s, and you don’t want to learn Latin, then I’d strongly recommend finding her a discussion group that goes through together and is graded by group members, so you can know when she’s right and when she’s not.
June 5, 2012 at 6:20 pm
Anonymous
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Thank you so much! I was thinking you were the one that recommended Latin Alive! on a different thread. Is that correct? If so, would you think that might be a better fit generally speaking, that is, aside from having a discussion group or me learning Latin too?
June 5, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Bookworm
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I’ve not used Latin Alive. I really, really like Latin in the Christian Trivium. It has really allowed me to be successful teaching Latin to all 3 boys, at varying ages (10 and up). It’s got GREAT teacher support, and even online support if the materials don’t have what I need. And I’ve used that!
June 5, 2012 at 7:11 pm
sheraz
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This is slightly off topuic…
I learned something today when I was researching the Latin in the Christian Trivium…I was looking at the samples of the first book, and in the first chapter it explains how much of our language is from Latin and listed some expamples.
Blue J uses the word “pax” a lot when she signs her name on the forum, and I always wondered what it meant. Today, I learned that in Latin, “pax” means “peace”. Ahhhh…
For some reason I thought that Bookworm had recommended Getting Started with Latin too. Anyway, we are adding Latin to our curriculum this year, and I keep wondering how much of that is for them or for me? =) I think it is fascinating.
June 5, 2012 at 8:45 pm
Bookworm
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Sonya is the one who recommended Getting Started with Latin to me; I decided I’d like to try it as a gentler intro for ds #3 who has a harder time with languages and who was still working on a few grammar skills. I did like it. I don’t think it’s NECESSARY before a comprehensive beginning curriculum, and it doesn’t really cover very much, but it is a gentler first step and did help prepare my son for more intensive work. It IS a confidence builder!
My kids really like to pick out those Latin phrases and words that crop up everywhere. We used to, on a previous car, have a bumper sticker that said, in Latin, “When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults.” It amused us. The latest idea the teens had was to make up t-shirts that said “Ultime Vir” which REALLY means “sir” but, translated directly, means something on the order of “Ultimate Man” This amused the kiddos, who wanted it put in a Superman type badge on a shirt. LOL We’re obviously much too easily amused here. LOL

June 6, 2012 at 12:10 am
blue j
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“My kids really like to pick out those Latin phrases and words that crop up everywhere. We used to, on a previous car, have a bumper sticker that said, in Latin, “When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults.” It amused us. The latest idea the teens had was to make up t-shirts that said “Ultime Vir” which REALLY means “sir” but, translated directly, means something on the order of “Ultimate Man” This amused the kiddos, who wanted it put in a Superman type badge on a shirt. LOL We’re obviously much too easily amused here. LOL”

Love it! :D:D:D My ds would buy one of those and wear it proudly. 😛