seneca2008 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 7:25 pm
I wish I had started learning latin with LLSPI!
Yes, same! So I bought this and have been reading through it, I’ll reiterate that I had taken Latin nearly 30 years ago and thought I was too busy with living languages to bother with it further, so my Latin faded away as it tends to do with nonuse.
I would only add one rider to my personal journey in Latin and that is that I am grateful to my first Latin teacher who terrified his young charges into learning morphology. When I took up the study of Latin in later life it was a good bedrock for reading JACT “Reading Latin”.
though in the meantime, I’ve also bought Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency, and it’s more useful as a reference book and for random phrases than LLPSI, but LLPSI has helped my reading a lot. Again, reminds me of the way programming concepts were taught in an online/video course I took, introduced and then re-used in different ways, the teacher called it a spiral syllabus or something.
But I mean to say, vocabulary is introduced in LLPSI, repeated so you different genders like puella/puer, different verb tenses, comparative adjectives, etc. and then there are exercises. All in all, I would say it’s worthwhile for people to buy, according to the back cover, the goal here is to get you a good starting vocabulary of 1800 words or so, then you can go from there with a dictionary or from other sources.
With any language, I don’t recommended learning from only one source, though. The more of the language you are exposed to, the better. Also why I appreciate YT channels in Latin.
I just found the “A First German Grammar” book which was my first German language book, from 1918 or so, very brute-force and repetitive but it worked for me I guess, as I ended up getting scholarships to go to Germany at the time. “Change the nouns and verbs from singular to plural, and questions, etc.”