> You don't need a user account to use the practice tool, but you're progress may not be saved if you're not logged in.
Distressing to see errors like this in a language text.
Show HN: A Latin self study course, Khan Academy-style
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#92> You don't need a user account to use the practice tool, but you're progress may not be saved if you're not logged in. Distressing to see errors like this in a language text.
Yeah but imagine how distressing it is to make them :) Fixed. Thanks for the heads up.
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#93As an aside, I'd like to recommend to people the Cambridge Latin Course ( https://www.cambridgescp.com/ ) This was the course I followed learning Latin in school. Whilst it may be tailored more towards a school audience, much of the content of their books is available for free online, which includes lots of translation and vocabulary practice. The books and stories are all very light-hearted and fun and teach a lot a…
I believe the other popular suggestion is Ørberg's Lingua Latīna : * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_%C3%98rberg
For me it is the best book for language learning I have ever seen, irrespective of the target language.
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#94Some feedback:
Have some link in your header clearly named "Course" or "Lessons" as it is right now it is totally confusing.
Embed the videos in your site.
Include the text in your site if possible.
Re: Show HN: A Latin self study course, Khan Academy-style
#95Some feedback: Have some link in your header clearly named "Course" or "Lessons" as it is right now it is totally confusing. Embed the videos in your site. Include the text in your site if possible.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll put some thought into this.
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I thought the common suggestion for a modern Latin textbook is Wheelock. https://www.amazon.com/Wheelocks-Latin-7th/dp/0061997226#
From my own casual investigations, Wheelock is considered a perfectly good textbook (particularly for people with lots of experience learning languages, e.g. grad students in the humanities), but also a bit "traditional," focusing more on learning grammatical rules and less on developing an intuition for the language. Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata is at the other, "immersion"-oriented end of the spectrum.
My latin teacher used both wheelock and lingua latina. They complement each other really well.
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#97Re: Show HN: A Latin self study course, Khan Academy-style
#98As an aside, I'd like to recommend to people the Cambridge Latin Course ( https://www.cambridgescp.com/ ) This was the course I followed learning Latin in school. Whilst it may be tailored more towards a school audience, much of the content of their books is available for free online, which includes lots of translation and vocabulary practice. The books and stories are all very light-hearted and fun and teach a lot a…
It's really important that these texts have this lightness of mood to engage kids - and the way that so many adults remember Caecilius and family is a testament to how effective it is. Timeless too - I was amazed and delighted when my daughter used the exact same texts.
In similar vein, for Greek we used Thrasymachus, which follows a plucky kid on his adventures encountering various characters from mythology.
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I won't stop anyone from learning anything they find interesting, and Logban is probably easier to learn. However I wouldn't recommend in general that anyone learn a constructed language. Learn the languages that people actually speak, they are much harder to learn, but in return you can actually talk to people, which is the point of learning a language. That is instead of two people learning some weird language why…
This view is a little strange in a thread where the alternative is learning Latin. With Latin, too, you typically have to go to conventions in order to encounter other speakers... I've participated in many spoken Latin events (and loved them), but they were akin to conlang events in that every single person was a non-native speaker, and the majority were not fully fluent. Following the view which I think I took from…
Latin opens up ancient worlds.
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> One of my Latin teachers did try to teach us a proper pronuncation once, but quickly gave up. Basically what happens in Europe when students need to learn English pronunciation, but no way to give up. > But i wonder, what is the point? By learning Latin you multiply the speed at which you learn romance languages, which will allow you to understand and communicate with a much larger share of the world. Moreover, but…
I don’t think there’s any evidence that learning Latin helps you learn Romance languages any faster than learning a Romance language does. Why should learning Latin and then French be any faster than Spanish->French ?
> Why should learning Latin and then French be any faster than Spanish->French ?
Indeed. I'm French, and I can basically read (not too literary) Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Latin, not so much. I have been told by locutors of these languages that the Italian/Spanish gap is even narrower.