He turned a tough subject, one almost always taught from a grammar-based approach into a novel. I spent years looking for something like Lingua Latina. I think I have read almost every Latin textbook out there.
If you can understand jokes in another language, you are either fluent or almost fluent. Admittedly, that would be one tough assignment to hand yourself, but… theoretically, it could be done.Īt the end of the book, chapter 35, students read Latin poetry, Latin wit, and a few Latin jokes. When you finish the book, you are not going to be able to read much in Latin.īy chapter 28, in Lingua Latina, students are reading from the New Testament in Latin! In other words, if you tackled a chapter a day, starting today, you could be reading the New Testament, in Latin, 28 days from now. As best I can tell, a learner with about 2,000 to 3,000 words in another language possesses the foundation needed for basic conversation and possesses the foundation for more advanced reading.īy contrast, another text I use to teach Latin, First Year Latin by Robert Henle, teaches students about 400 words. I’ve been studying languages for twenty years. Each sentence, each paragraph, and each chapter from this point forward will add to your knowledge.īy the time you finish the book, you will know almost 2,000 words in Latin. This simple sentence just taught four words in Latin. Looking at the map, students see that Rome is in Italy. The reader will use the Latin he knows to learn the Latin he does not know.Ĭhapter 1 begins with pictures of new words and a map of the Roman empire. In other words, Latin will teach you Latin. Lingua Latina: Per Se Illustrata means: The Latin Language Illustrated through itself. Most shocking to my students, there is no “Latin to English” dictionary at the back. There are no grammar points in English at the end of each chapter. There are no sidebars with English notes. If you have not seen the book yet, it is completely in Latin. Hans Orberg wrote Lingua Latina in Latin. I am amazed at how well it teaches Latin.
I promised students we would continue until we finished the book.Įvery time I read this book, I am amazed. Since I had to cancel class in April, we were a bit off schedule. A few months ago, my students and I just finished another trip through Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, by Hans Orberg.
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