Latin at Primary age? Can I teach this at home?

[VolumniaDedlock]

Can I start by saying that I do know the thread title makes me sound like an utter bellend?

Anyway, dd1 has expressed an interest in learning Latin. No school round here offers it, primary or secondary. I really enjoyed it at school and would happily spend an hour a week reading through all the Caecilius stories with her (although I've forgotten most of it). Would this work? and can you get decent resources to do this? I'm not hoping that she'll turn into the new Mary Beard, but think it might be fun to do together.

Thank you for starting the thread, Volumnia!

I don't think I'd do Cambridge or Oxford without some grasp of Latin or grammar Atomic. I agree that you'd have more chance with either of the So you really want series.

I might go and dig out my old OLC books and reacquaint myself with the life of Quintus.

But Atomic I did 70s French, German and Latin O'Levels - ours were full of grammar. Not sure whether to be or .

Definitely about your Japanese though.

You'd have no problem with Latin, except possibly, as I said above, lack of a peer group to pace yourself against. I think it's quite a popular thing to learn now so you may be able to find an adult group - even if only online.

Sounds as though your DD will fly OP.

I did Japanese as an adult, five years at night school. Three different alphabets... but the sentence structure just seemed natural to me. Backwards to English, more like German word order, but very logical.

Oh, and sorry- formative years were 70s, I suppose language learning was 80s. However, my generation was not taught grammar at school at all (and some of us were cursed with ITA).

Thank you Op
Dd2 (aged 12) went off to school this morning having established that Cornelia est parva et non timida and Flavia is a big scaredy cat. She has the book in her bag as she is desperate to know how Sextus came to be stuck up the tree. Not sure how long the enthusiasm will last but happy to keep posting updates for anyone who wants to join in.

Just looked on Amazon and Ecce Romani is still in print but unfortunately quite pricey, although there were good deals second hand.

Very impressed with Atomic's language skills. I did Latin to avoid taking French. On grammar, my Latin teacher was more appalled at our lack of grasp of English than our Latin shortcomings. "Move from the known to the unknown" he used to exclaim while rolling his eyes in disgust!

DH did Latin at Uni and I did Ancient Greek - I would advise steering clear of adult courses for a child as the pace, focus and subject matter are different. I do think a smattering of the classics does enhance lots of things and would not be without mine

Slightly off topic but does anyone remember which book started with a few lessons on Crassus et Claudia? I think Crassus was a farmer and Claudia got chased by a wolf! It then went on to stuff like Jason and the Argonauts, Romulus and Remus etc in reasonably easy Latin. I learned Latin from it in the early 80s but can't remember its name.

We home ed and DS1 used a mixture of CLC and Galore Park (So You Really Want to Learn) and got a B at GCSE in year 10 and has just sat AS, both as private candidates. We got a tutor for the literature and then carried on with him for AS as it was completely beyond me. (I did O level while at sixth form). He found GP rather dry on its own, but was fine with it supplemented with CLC, and it certainly prepared him really well for moving on to AS.

OP if your child's school is in London could you persuade them to try and set up a Latin Club working with one of the universities? (I am sure this is possible outside of London, I just don't know so much about it). I am linked to a London uni and some of our classics students run Latin clubs in primaries locally. I think they use minimus not sure.

Are there such things as refresher courses in Latin for adults? I got an A at A-level Latin after a very hard slog with the grammar (started out with Cambridge Latin, nuff said). However I'm bound to have forgotten most of it nearly 30 years on.

I've heard of this one. You'll have to be quick!

And I'll be very .

A friend homeschools and they go to a Latin club run by Reading Uni, so there are definitely some others too.

Ah I have very fond memories of learning latin at school, and I hated modern languages!
Was it the Cambridge Latin that had audio tapes of stories, I remember one which was the people in Pompeii trying to escape the eruption, it was awful!