Hallo all, I am new at Textkit. I’ve started studying Latin and I’ll be using Lingua Latina per se Illustrata and Gavin Betts’ Teach Yourself Latin. Does anyone have any recommendations for the best books to use? Looking round secondhand shops I browsed a good number of books and these 2 looked about the best I could see. Laetus
Welcome to Textkit, Laetus!
welcome here!
I’m not an expert, but lots of people use the LLPSI and there are many discussions about it on this forum if you look, so I’m sure what you have will give you a good start. Take a look through the boards and you’ll find lots of texts and helps (we also have links to some free online resources).
Good luck with your studies. 
If you find that LLPSI is not engaging you, indeed it’s quite depressive, you could try other textbooks based on the same principle of graded reading:
- Cornelia Puella Americana by Mima Maxey (1933) - it’s adorable
- Via Latina (2022)
- Lectiones Latinae (2018)
Thanks all of you for your replies and encouragement.
Latin Via Ovid is fun, but sadly it’s in need of a revision.
hi cmw. what revision do you think it needs?
I haven’t taught from it in several years now, but I do recall there being a small handful of mistakes. It could also use some polish, some reworking and expanding of explanations. It’s great for when it was last released (and why I usually recommend it), but that was in 1982.
For specifics, I’d have to thumb through it again, and like I said, I last taught from it about seven years ago now.
Thanks for replying. i wasn’t looking for specifics. i hadn’t realised it was so old. i have never used it either but it looked useful. I use Reading Latin having abandoned LLPSI because students found it dull and I found that it gave students a false sense of what they had actually learned and understood.
Hi Seneca,
I use Reading Latin also and find it to be an excellent text.
Cheers.