Our kids go to a good school that doesn't include Latin. So I'm self-learning and teaching Latin to my 7 and 9 year olds. I started with the Latina Christiana series from Veritas Press. Now I'm sorry we didn't begin with classical pronunciation instead of the ecclesiastical pronunciation which Veritas prescribes. I wish I hadn't started with that series even though it helped very much.

The best little gem of a book I found is Jenney's First Year Latin, published by Allyn and Bacon. It is your regular hardbound school text book. This is my curriculum guide now, and I supplement it with various other books from Latin for Dummies all the way up to Wheelock's Latin.

My 9 year old is doing 3rd declension and they are both conjugating 4 verb kinds in the imperfect tense. Our vocabulary now has about 75 words. The best part is they are miles ahead in English grammar as a result of this study.

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David Cronkhite, Elder
Pasadena United Reformed Church

"I count myself one of the number of those
who write as they learn, and learn as they write."