And, then, all of a sudden, they will actually be ahead. For this reason, students of both Lingua Latina and Visual Latin will feel they are a bit behind for a while. I modeled Visual Latin after Lingua Latina. In a book of 35 chapters, the verb tenses don’t even start showing up until chapter 19, or so. Lingua Latina flipped the order, and put the verbs off until later in the book. It’s almost as if they trying to discourage students from learning another language. Henle (and almost all other Latin books) tackle the verbs and their crazy tenses first. Because of this, it doesn’t match up smoothly with First Year Latin by Robert Henle.
This means that I pushed verbs off until students mastered the more concrete, easier to understand aspects of Latin. I modeled Visual Latin after the grammar in Lingua Latina. If you do want to add Visual Latin (for your daughter) it could be a bit frustrating. The difference is, Hans Ørberg ( Lingua Latina) teaches the grammar clearly and through repetition, not through long-winded jargon-filled English explanations. If it were a fight, Lingua Latina would win simply because it shows up with more ammo. Lingua Latina, on the other hand, teaches kids almost 2,000 words. For example, First Year Latin by Robert Henle teaches kids 497 words, mostly combat words and verbs (to get kids ready for Second Year Latin). Lingua Latina will give you much to work with. Visual Latin would likely only be review. I would not recommend Visual Latin for your son, simply because he has already been through so much of Henle Latin. If you are just ready to be done with Henle Latin, then Lingua Latina is the way to go. It’s really just for fun.īack to your question. Right now I am taking students through the Exercitia Latina book (extra exercises). I did for years, and those classes are available on my site 24/7. Unfortunately, I no longer teach the main book live. When you get bogged down, start using the classes on my site. Just start in chapter one and read as much as you like. It will not make sense if you don’t start at the beginning. You could just follow along at the normal CC pace with Henle Latin, and just start reading Lingua Latina as a novel (Which it is).Īs for where to start, my answer is always the same. If you guys are going through Henle Latin, and need to stay with the other kids (CC) while doing so, why not do both? I pretty much always have the same answer to this common question. I’d like to move away from Henle for the next school year (where he would have started Henle 2 if we stayed with CC’s recommendation). He’s done ok, but I feel like we’ve been flying to keep up with the CC Latin schedule and are barely getting by.
Also, my high school son will finish up Henle 1 this year with CC. How do you recommend making that transition? Start VL from the beginning? Or start somewhere in the middle?Ģ. I’d like to make the switch to Visual Latin to make the rest of her Latin career less painful.
I have a daughter in CC who will have moved through Henle 1, lessons 1-15, by the end of this school year. (Also, we are currently members of your website and have used it as my son works through Henle 1 via CC this year.)ġ. I’ve tried to read thoroughly through the FAQ below, but still have a couple of specific questions for you.
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