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ACTUALLY, what you need is Latin: How to Read it Fluently by Dexter Hoyos. CANE Materials sells it (google).
My biggest gripe with professors is that they never think about what the reading experience is like for them versus what it's like for the average person. I was once told that in order to get better at reading Latin I needed to just read MORE Latin. I wanted to cry. It would take me HOURS to properly go through a passage for class, with a variety of grammars, dictionaries, translations and texts. READ MORE?
No one ever stopped to ask me HOW I was reading. And that's what's important.
I've spent most of the year sight-reading Vergil with my AP students and feeling quite good about my own reading skills. And everytime I get lost in the Latin, I realize I either 1) didn't read the whole sentence or to the next punctuation and haven't gotten everything yet, or 2) need to just metaphrase to see what I'm missing.
It shouldn't be about whether you can parse the grammar. It's about whether you can absorb the shape of the Latin.
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Date: 2009-02-07 06:27 pm (UTC)ACTUALLY, what you need is Latin: How to Read it Fluently by Dexter Hoyos. CANE Materials sells it (google).
My biggest gripe with professors is that they never think about what the reading experience is like for them versus what it's like for the average person. I was once told that in order to get better at reading Latin I needed to just read MORE Latin. I wanted to cry. It would take me HOURS to properly go through a passage for class, with a variety of grammars, dictionaries, translations and texts. READ MORE?
No one ever stopped to ask me HOW I was reading. And that's what's important.
I've spent most of the year sight-reading Vergil with my AP students and feeling quite good about my own reading skills. And everytime I get lost in the Latin, I realize I either 1) didn't read the whole sentence or to the next punctuation and haven't gotten everything yet, or 2) need to just metaphrase to see what I'm missing.
It shouldn't be about whether you can parse the grammar. It's about whether you can absorb the shape of the Latin.