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Learning a new language can seem a bit daunting as adults but kids find pure pleasure in learning new ways to communicate. Sign Language was the first language for all of my kids, then obviously english. Krissy my seven year old is our little linguist, he started Spanish this past school year and is now learning Latin. For Krissy's latest adventure into Latin we are using Prima Latina Complete Set by Memoria Press.
Prima Latina is the lowest level of Latin offered by Memoria Press, it's suggested grade level is 2nd grade but works well for any beginning students. Prior to even getting started in the currirulum I was browsing through The Classical Teacher Magazine I received from Memoria Press and I was really intrigued by the article "The Wrong Way To Teach Latin." It had some interesting points but the greatest was; when learning a new language, either modern or classic you should learn to read it first. It states that the more modern approach of natural learning meathods, meaning like how children naturally learn a language through immersion, have lowered our academic standards in foreign languages. This is mostly due to the fact that there isn't natural emersion, it's impossible in one hour a week lessons. The focus should be more on learning to read and write a new language. So we jumped into this curriculum with a new classical outlook!
Prima Latina is the lowest level of Latin offered by Memoria Press, it's suggested grade level is 2nd grade but works well for any beginning students. Prior to even getting started in the currirulum I was browsing through The Classical Teacher Magazine I received from Memoria Press and I was really intrigued by the article "The Wrong Way To Teach Latin." It had some interesting points but the greatest was; when learning a new language, either modern or classic you should learn to read it first. It states that the more modern approach of natural learning meathods, meaning like how children naturally learn a language through immersion, have lowered our academic standards in foreign languages. This is mostly due to the fact that there isn't natural emersion, it's impossible in one hour a week lessons. The focus should be more on learning to read and write a new language. So we jumped into this curriculum with a new classical outlook!
The Prima Latina Complete Kit includes:
DVD Instructional Video
CD Pronunciation Guide
Teacher Guide
Student Book
Flashcards
DVD Instructional Video
CD Pronunciation Guide
Teacher Guide
Student Book
Flashcards
There are 25 lessons throughout the course, each lesson should take about a week but you have the ability to move at your own pace so if you have an eager learner you can move quicker or if you need more practice you can linger around on the same lesson longer for mastery.
The video for each lesson is about 15-20 minutes long, it alternates between a video of the instructor and slides, sometimes both together. The slides run in line with the lesson pages in the Student book but you also have the option to print the slides.
Throughout the lesson there is a review of prior knowledge, new practical latin phrases, a main lesson topic, vocabulary (5 words per lesson), derivitives and then couple lines of a prayer.
After the lesson overview pages are the exercises, we usually split them up over a few days or somedays he gets on a roll and wants to do them all at once. It cracks me up that he strives to have nice neat handwriting and proper spelling on them, because the instructor told him to! I never get that good of a reaction when I ask!
Each week there's a couple lines of prayer that they learn, adding on to the prior week after five weeks they have a full prayer. This is something we have enjoyed learning together as a family!
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