![]() ![]() I have not started it yet, but I've purchased it and it looks promising - a prostitute is in love with a poet, to the annoyance of her pimp. It's a short play in the comic tradition written to make Wheelock more engaging. UCLA uses "Auricula Meretricula" with Wheelock's for 1st-year Latin. I'm using CLC to teach my teenager (15) Latin and he describes it as "fun." You really have to force yourself to learn the grammar with CLC, but with Wheelock's you have to force yourself to keep going - CLC is a fun read all the way through (although I only completed 3 of the 4 books.) I will reserve final judgement until I've gotten through both - I don't yet know if it's possible to go from CLC to "real" Latin without additional preparation. ![]() I am using Wheelock's preparatory to enrolling in a university program that uses it, but I started with Cambridge Latin Course and loved it. ![]() Even five minutes - a translation or two, perhaps - helps to reinforce the concepts you've learned. No matter what schedule you take, don't let a day pass without Latin. Now, I'm doing a chapter every two or three days, and I spend about three hours a day on Latin. I had them down pretty solidly after that. Also, to make sure the paradigms stuck, I wrote out each paradigm a hundred times. If you're still unsure then, come to Textkit and ask.Ģ) I started at one chapter per week - about half an hour per day, and got to chapter eight with a pretty solid understanding of all the material taught up until then. As for whether or not to get Wheelock's Latin Reader after Wheelock's: By the time you finish Wheelock's Latin, you'll probably have an opinion of what to do next. 38 Latin Stories, in my view, should provide a less boring approach to practicing reading than Wheelock's passages about friends and money. Anyhow, to answer your questions:ġ) I don't have 38 Latin Stories, but if I can ever get a copy, I'd probably use it. just Wheelock's and whatever online resources I come across and find useful. ![]()
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