Hans Ørberg believed that students would learn Latin faster, and understand more if they learned through stories. We will learn the parts of the car as we go. Lingua Latina teaches Latin the way we learn to drive cars. That is not how Latin is taught in the Lingua Latina online class. Learn these endings, kid, and someday you will be able to read in Latin. Carburetor, transmission, axle, ignition, dip stick… you get the idea. What would you think of me if I told you that he had to memorize all the parts of the car before I let him drive. These days, I am teaching my son to drive. I doubt she learned a second language by memorizing grammar charts. She probably grew up reading foreign books, as well as English books. I’ll bet she was surrounded by foreign languages as a child. I never met anyone who learned a language by memorizing grammar charts.ĭo you have a multilingual friend? I’ll bet she grew up in another country. Have you ever learned a language by memorizing grammar charts? Have you ever learned a language by memorizing endings?
Oh, could we rattle off those Latin endings! And, to be honest, I could barely read in Latin.īut we had stacks of endings memorized.
Worst of all, I watched as they struggled to read rudimentary Latin sentences. I watched them memorize long lists of words and long lists of Latin endings. For years, I watched my students struggle. Lingua Latina, by Hans Ørberg, saved my teaching career.įor years, I taught Latin.
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