Salve everyone!
I’d like to introduce myself.
I’m a sophmore in high school at Christian Liberty Academy in Arlington Heights, Illinois. This coming year will be my second year of Latin, Jenny’s Latin that is (I heard Jenny’s Latin is college level. Is that true?). My Latin teacher is awesome but there is one thing about her, she is addicted to caffeine. But I still take the Latin unlike everyone in my school who takes Spanish. I’m takin Latin because when I’m older, I plan to be a surgeon or medical doctor. Thanks for letting me be a member of this site.
Welcome to the forums. I also plan to go into the medical profession, though that is not my reason for taking Latin. It is quite a pleasure if the Classics are your interest. You are incredibly fortunate to have Latin available at high school level, though schoolchildren begged for such a lacking 50 years ago. I’m glad that you have a good teacher, that is a very good motivation and motivation is the most important thing (along with desire). I am in awe at the self-motivation shown by people here who usually lack teachers. Textkit still has a lot to offer to you though, I would not be anywhere near as knowledgeable in Latin if I had not used Textkit to supplement my own studies.
aww Steven. But I have a teacher, D’Ooge. He is my friend. But after the end of his course he told me to read some original Latin, only a bit, then learn the details from my 1901 copy of A&G.
But those who have no teacher, like those following JWW (well Skylax is pretty much their teacher, and he was a great help to me) for example Koala et. alii, I wonder how they do it 
Arlington Heights sounds like some place similar to Dante’s Peak or a region of Grand Theft Auto 1. Anyway welcome, hope to see you posting in the Agora!
Jenney’s Latin at college level…well it depends how you USE it. If you do it in a semester, it’s around college level. However colleges tend to use a different book “Wheelock’s Latin” which gives a more poet-friendly approach, more vocab, a wider variety of reading material (I’M SURE YOU’RE SICK OF “The consuls said that the soldiers and envoys decided to leave behind the poets on account of the danger of barbarians in Germany” ALSO?), and a fair amount of unaltered reading material w/ footnotes at the end. If you did Jenney’s Latin I in a year that’s pretty good for high school; we do Jenney’s latin I in TWO YEARS (!!) in effect proceeding at 1/4 of a college pace. Like this year we stopped at chapter 32 after present active infinitives…
and for me that’s where Textkit comes in, cause I’m doing the rest contrabandly over the summer and wonderful people here always tell me when I’m trying to use an ablative for direct object or something. I’m also going to be a sophomore. Good luck with your aspirations
on average it takes about 1.5 years to finish the book. When I starts school again, we will start with lesson 27 out of 40.
My Latin teacher is awesome but there is one thing about her, she is addicted to caffeine
What is it with Latin teachers and caffeine? My teacher is addicted too! 
weird…
But I still take the Latin unlike everyone in my school who takes Spanish. quote]
Me too! Spanish is so over-rated. Okay maybe it’s not but still. >> I originally took Latin so I could learn scientific names of animals easier, because I wanted to be a zookeeper. But now I’m not so sure…I fell in love with the classics!
Coffee is health food.
- Tim
nothing against coffee, it’s my sweet black nectar of life. javajavajavajavajava…
Welcome, LatinPupil4Life!
Coffee is what I’m addicted to, too. It’s the thing that keeps me sober. I was awake for the last 120 hours(except a few hours) almost without coffee when I was taking the training course at the company. I had worked for a day(for about 11 hours) at a sibling company’s assembly line without taking coffee and walked 40 km (about 25 miles) in about 8 hours without coffee. Most of the time I had to shout out slogans and move very busily but when I was not moving very much I soon got drowsy and was about to fall asleep.
Working in Latin I would never keep awake half an hour if I do not take a cup of coffee. The experience, however, gave me an idea. Cry out the conjugations and act out the vocabularies while learning them.(Yeah, people will call me mad. )
you may be mad but you produce such beautiful offspring that we will forgive you. 
every time i look at your smiling baby’s photo i smile too.