Familia Romana (the main book of Pars I of the Lingua Latina per se illustrata series) contains thirty-five chapters and describes the life of a Roman family in the 2nd century A.D.
LINGUA LATINA PER SE ILLUSTRATA GLOSSARY SERIES
Lingua Latina per se Illustrata is also the most popular series for those teachers at both the secondary and collegiate levels who wish to develop Latin conversational skills in the classroom. The Natural Method encourages students to learn Latin without resorting to translation, but instead by teaching them to think in the language: students first learn grammar and vocabulary inductively through extended contextual reading and an ingenious system of marginal notes. Push through.Hans ørberg's Lingua Latina per se Illustrata is the world's premiere series for learning Latin via the Natural Method. If you are plowing through Lingua Latina and you are struggling, be encouraged. When I tell you that this is one of the toughest books you will ever read in your life, I am not kidding. Lingua Latina takes the reader from completely ignorant in Latin to near fluency. Not only is the story completely in Latin, it is actually interesting! Instead of reading dry disjointed sentences, students read about family squabbles, school fights, pirates, dramatic rescues, runaway slaves, and stolen money. He turned a tough subject, one almost always taught from a grammar-based approach into a novel. I spent years looking for something like Lingua Latina. I think I have read almost every Latin textbook out there. If you can understand jokes in another language, you are either fluent or almost fluent. Admittedly, that would be one tough assignment to hand yourself, but… theoretically, it could be done.Īt the end of the book, chapter 35, students read Latin poetry, Latin wit, and a few Latin jokes.
When you finish the book, you are not going to be able to read much in Latin.īy chapter 28, in Lingua Latina, students are reading from the New Testament in Latin! In other words, if you tackled a chapter a day, starting today, you could be reading the New Testament, in Latin, 28 days from now.
As best I can tell, a learner with about 2,000 to 3,000 words in another language possesses the foundation needed for basic conversation and possesses the foundation for more advanced reading.īy contrast, another text I use to teach Latin, First Year Latin by Robert Henle, teaches students about 500 words. I’ve been studying languages for twenty years. Each sentence, each paragraph, and each chapter from this point forward will add to your knowledge.īy the time you finish the book, you will know almost 2,000 words in Latin. This simple sentence just taught four words in Latin. Looking at the map, students see that Rome is in Italy. The reader will use the Latin he knows to learn the Latin he does not know.Ĭhapter 1 begins with pictures of new words and a map of the Roman empire. In other words, Latin will teach you Latin. Lingua Latina: Per Se Illustrata means: The Latin Language Illustrated through itself. Most shocking to my students, there is no “Latin to English” dictionary at the back. There are no grammar points in English at the end of each chapter. There are no sidebars with English notes. If you have not seen the book yet, it is completely in Latin. Hans Orberg wrote Lingua Latina in Latin. I am amazed at how well it teaches Latin. Not long ago, my students and I just finished another trip through Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, by Hans Orberg.Įvery time I read this book, I am amazed.
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