metrodorus
01-29-2010, 01:04 PM
Latinum (http://latinum.weebly.com/index.html)has a few thousand students using its audio courses, which have been explicitly set up for the autodidactic student - whether an adult, or a child.
The theory behind the materials is based directly on Comenius' methodology, which really is similar to Krashen - comprehensible input, plus grammar. Latinum also thinks it is important to produce the language - in writing, and in speech, and places huge emphasis on listening.
So, we have Latinum, a multi-level immersion course, with many hundreds of hours of Latin immersion available, and explicit tuition as well, (i.e. grammar)
Once the student is up to a certain level, all the material is in Latin only. Students are encourged to use a Latin-Latin dictionary, read Latin language grammar books, etc, once they have passed the first three years of study, and Latinum expects its users to acquire the ability to converse in Latin.
Latinum thus also offers opportunities for students to communicate - the audio-visual locutorium on Latinum's Latin language social network site (http://schola.ning.com), is busy every evening, and a parade of users pass through every day, who speak to and write to each other in Latin. There are also daily text study groups in the locutorium, where Latin texts are read aloud, and discussed in Latin.
Starting from scratch 2 years ago, Schola (http://schola.ning.com) now has over 1300 members.
The theory behind the materials is based directly on Comenius' methodology, which really is similar to Krashen - comprehensible input, plus grammar. Latinum also thinks it is important to produce the language - in writing, and in speech, and places huge emphasis on listening.
So, we have Latinum, a multi-level immersion course, with many hundreds of hours of Latin immersion available, and explicit tuition as well, (i.e. grammar)
Once the student is up to a certain level, all the material is in Latin only. Students are encourged to use a Latin-Latin dictionary, read Latin language grammar books, etc, once they have passed the first three years of study, and Latinum expects its users to acquire the ability to converse in Latin.
Latinum thus also offers opportunities for students to communicate - the audio-visual locutorium on Latinum's Latin language social network site (http://schola.ning.com), is busy every evening, and a parade of users pass through every day, who speak to and write to each other in Latin. There are also daily text study groups in the locutorium, where Latin texts are read aloud, and discussed in Latin.
Starting from scratch 2 years ago, Schola (http://schola.ning.com) now has over 1300 members.