(To Learn Through Teaching)
Latin ~ One of the foundations of a Classical Education. Sounds scary, doesn’t it? And yet it is one of my favorite subjects. Yes, I realize we are learning very elementary Latin, but we are LEARNING LATIN. Even Leif has memorized full prayers in Latin.
Prima Latina is a program designed for early elementary students, and very simple to teach, even for an adult with no Latin background. In just one year, we are covering:
- Recognizing English and Latin Verbs
- Invisible Verbs
- Nouns, Proper Nouns, & Pronouns
- Prepositions
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- To Be Verbs
- Present and Future Tenses
- First Conjugation
- First Declension
- 125 Latin Vocabulary Words
- Approx. 150 Latin Derivatives
- 25 Latin Sayings
- 4 Latin Prayers
- 4 Latin Hymns
- 12 Constellations
- Latin Numbers 1-10
Are you curious as to why students should learn Latin? Read here.
Or why teach Latin to elementary students? Read here.
I am enjoying learning the Latin phrases (mea culpa, quo vadis, stupor mundi), and I recently came across a very fun (and long) list of Latin quotes and phrases. I’ll have to memorize some of these, such as:
Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium.
(Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. ~Seneca)
Or possibly some of the more light-hearted translations:
Luke sum ipse patrem te.
( Luke, I am your father.)
OR
Aspice, officio fungeris sine spe honoris amplioris.
( Face it, you’re stuck in a dead end job.)
See, Latin is fun.