I’ve just finished with Wheelock’s. I’m wondering if anyone has any advice as to what to do at this juncture?
I’m between high school and college (I’ve postponed the later for a year and will probably be enrolling early next year at the latest), but I’ve been keeping my intellect on its toes with Latin, for example. I’m deeply interested in the classics, as well as language, literature, and philosophy in general, hence the Latin, and I’ve also begun ancient Greek (Greek: An Intensive Course by Hansen and Quinn). When I enter college I plan on pursuing these to a great extent.
Anyway, any book recommendations or advice for someone who is currently studying solo? intense grammar books suit me just fine. I am currently reading Wheelocks’s Latin Reader as well as Beginning Latin Poetry, a reader compiled by Gavin Betts and Daniel Franklin. Any recommendations at all would be very much appreciated!
You are me. I too did Wheelock’s Latin and went on to Harsen and Quinn, both solo, though I’m finishing the latter and high school now.
Anyway, I started reading Ovid, a blue book with a couple of the Amores and tales from Metamorphoses, to keep my Latin fresh, and I really like it. Ovid has easily become one of my favorite poets, and by the end of it I was reading it almost as fast as English. I’m going to tackle some Seneca next, but I haven’t found any good editions yet.
I would recomend Wheelock’s Latin Reader 2e. I self study Latin and I started it right after finishing Wheelock’s. It has several complete excerpts from Ovid’s Metamorphoses if that is what interests you, but it also has some Cicero, Pliny, and Livy. There are also selections from the Vulgate, and Medieval Latin, but these do not interest me. The pages on the right side have the text itself and the pages on the left side have vocabulary and grammar notes. I strongly suggest this book. It’s only $13.57
thanks for the replies! I actually went ahead and ordered the Ovid book which the fellow linked to…the Amazon reviews seemed favorable enough, and from the small experience with Ovid Ive already had, it should be quite fun.
That and the readers I mentioned above should be enough to keep my Latin alive and growing…a couple of months down the road, maybe Ill give Vergil a look, given the ample resources out there. Maybe before college I should take some kind of exam, like the AP…I took the AP Spanish exam in my last year of high school and scored a 5 Anyway, its good for two college credits, I think, so I wouldnt have to start at the beginning.
Anyway, its good for two college credits, I think, so I wouldnt have to start at the beginning.