Miscellaneous language advice.

I received this inquiry: “When reading the chapter ever day are they (we, I’m trying to do this with her) suppose to be reading in English, Latin or both? Also: We are using the Cassell’s Latin Dictionary both Latin-English and English-Latin. Many of...

He gets it.

I received this email from a Visual Latin user. He gets it.  I added the Vulgate into the course on purpose. “Of course, your winning personality and humor won me over immediately when I first found your VL program online. The bite size portions and the...

Whitaker’s Words

I received this inquiry: Comment: I’m teaching Visual Latin to a group of 8th graders. I’m wondering if there is a chart or resource somewhere that tells me which nouns belong in which declension as they are introduced lesson by lesson? I’d like to...

What does “auditing” mean?

I received this inquiry: What is your definition of auditing a class?  I am trying to decide between auditing Henle 1 and “I already own Visual Latin”. Thank you!  Here is my reply: I personally grade the work of my students.   This, however, is...

Why does my kid hate Latin?

I received this inquiry: Hello.  My son, now 12 y/o was in Classical Conversations Challenge A last year.  He started the year LOVING Latin… then slowly began to hate it.  I’m sure it’s because it was more difficult as the year went along and I was...

Visual Latin or Henle Latin?

I received this inquiry: Comment: I have a question about Visual latin and Henle. I know you have a sheet for using both together. I am wondering if we really need it. My question is, will my children come away with the same level of latin just using VL 1 and 2 as...