If you have kids that are interested in learning Latin

Learning Latin
By homeeducationuk
http://latinum.mypodcast.com

If you have kids that are interested in learning Latin or you yourself are interested but you don’t want to pay out hundreds for an expensive curriculum or whatever take a look at Latinum. I was looking up free homeschooling resources yesterday and came across it and I’ve read the first 22 pages of the text book and despite it being written in complicated english through the first lesson seems relatively okay so far. I haven’t listened to the audio yet but from even just the book, I definately recommend it.

If you have younger kids (I’d say younger than 13) you’ll have to go through it with them, explaining a lot of it yourself but it’d probably be an excellent thing to build english vocabulary too. The course is supposed to take between three and five years if you work at it each day & I’m hoping to finish it in three or four hopefully. I’m considering attempting spanish & latin but we’ll see. It might be difficult considering I’ve only learnt french before. I started french when I was four & continued to learn it until about six months ago while I was in school and I eventually found that if you know basically what words are you can use your imagination a lot and guess vaguely what words to use in what places. It was unbelievable. Most of the class put a lot of effort into remembering the words but I’d given up after not understanding the foundations of learning verbs at all but somehow I managed to improvise my way through tests and even got the highest level once which was quite shocking.

What languages are you teaching your own children, if any? If you are teaching them the language, what resources are you using? Did your kids choose what language they learnt themselves? How much input do you have on their language learning? Is it entirely lead by you or entirely independent?