I would love some help with Latin supplements....please

[Kfamily]

Hi! DD11 is nearly finished with Our Roman Roots and will be starting Henle in the the fall. She hasn't really been overly enthusiastic about Latin but now claims she enjoys translating. We've stretched ORR out over two years (we started in 4th) and have added lessons by translating the small fables and latin stories that were part of the lessons. She really likes this so...I would like to enrich the Henle with something like this. I worry about translating because I don't want it to take the place of actually "reading" latin. Does that make sense? What would feel like translating but would actually lead us into "reading"? And I am worried I may hear Lingua Latina and I am NOT prepared (I don't think) to start this. I am just now starting MY Henle lessons to get ahead for the fall. I would love some advice.
Also, I read another mom's suggestion about how she will be using copywork in several languages for practice. I am thinking about using copywork with our Latin and French. What do you think of this idea? Could I use some of these fables and stories for copywork and would this be helpful?

Thanks for any advice!:001_smile:

I would love to try Lingua Latina but maybe in a year or so. I don't mean to relay any anger over it. I'm just nervous about taking on more than I could handle right now. I hope I relayed a nervousness and not anger.

[TracyR]

Ahh . Okay . How about the Little Latin Readers by CHC ?
http://www.chcweb.com/catalog/LanguageArts/Latin/catalog.html?

[Kfamily]

Thanks for suggesting them...these look exactly right. They don't look babyish but they are simplistic enough to start with but definitely are adding to what we are learning. Great!

[magistramom]

Just throwing this one out there...We did LL and found that to become tedious after a while as well (it's all translation). We have had fun translating books in the series "A Latin Reader for Beginners". You can still find schools that have "lots" (as in a case or two of them) available through various used/online sites.

If your dd enjoys translating whole to parts, but if she enjoys some variety and doing some parts to whole, your dd may enjoy Jenny's for her higher level Latin. After that, she can begin the college work in a local, or distance learning classics department during high school. I've decided to go with this for my dd - it's a bit more entertaining than Henle and much more, than Wheelock's.

[MomOfOneFunOne]

Hey! I'm similarly interested and googled "a latin reader for beginners." I didn't get many hits but got a few more at amazon. Can you give an author or publisher?

I'd really like to look at these!

[latinteach]

I worry about translating because I don't want it to take the place of actually "reading" latin. Does that make sense?

It does make sense.

See this article:
http://www.bu.edu/mahoa/hale_art.html
The Art of Reading Latin

And I am worried I may hear Lingua Latina and I am NOT prepared (I don't think) to start this. I am just now starting MY Henle lessons to get ahead for the fall. I would love some advice.

Plaid Dad suggests that Lingua Latina can be added after about seven
chapters or so of Henle. If you think Lingua Latina might be too much,
you could use Cambridge Latin or another reading text.

If you're looking for some simple Latin reading
material, Bolchazy has easy readers. 2 of their series are "I Am Reading Latin" and "I Am Reading Latin Stories." Rose Williams also has some
good beginning readers. Also, the American Classical League carries some
simple readers. http://www.bolchazy.com and http://www.aclclassics.org

Another good book that has excellent Latin readings is a DIFFERENT "Latina Lingua" -- this one is by John Traupman and entirely different from "Latina Lingua Per Se Illustrata" by Hans Oerberg. Traupman's book is grammar-based and has lots of stories. Traupman also wrote Latin is Fun, which is an illustrated workbook and has reading stories that are simple and fun.

[magistramom]

Oh no! It seems to be getting difficult to find these now! Okay, do this...Go to Amazon and put the author "Maud Reed" into the text box. It's a crap shoot for what will come up. I noticed right now you can purchase Julia and Camilla - but there are many in this series (Virgil, Herodotus, Cicero, etc.).

Or, start with this author and the titles Julia or Camilla - and search for books in the series on a variety of used book sites. The books are gems! I was able to get my set from a Yeshiva in NH that purchased them from a Catholic school - try to see if there is a Catholic school used textbook connection out there on the web.

You can also read from a variety of old textbooks online at many sites (The Latin Library (juvenile section); Perseus Project; Tertullian Latin Texts; Project Gutenburg; there are MANY places that have Latin writings and textbooks online) . Here is one for juveniles:

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=p44XAAAAIAAJ&dq=a+latin+reader+for+beginners&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=cKUlPvj0M-&sig=9TqZkJLhfvWQ-ZVpqcp6_vUFr9M&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

[Kfamily]

You've given me some homework and many ideas and I really appreciate it.

What do you think about the copywork idea?

[Plaid Dad]

Latinteach mentioned some great resources. A couple of other places to look:

The Latin via Fables (http://latinviafables.blogspot.com/) blog has some short fables - probably too difficult for first-year students, but something to work up to. The author also has some interesting books that arrange proverbs (http://www.lulu.com/content/370912) and verses from the Vulgate (can't find a link right now) by grammatical form.

Memoria Press's Lingua Angelica and Lingua Biblica are designed as translation supplements to Henle.

HTH!