I curious if any of you have tried the new Rosetta Stone Latin for homeschooling yet. We are working with a Classical Conversations group and just learning the declensions and conjugations this year but I'm interested in moving a bit faster on our own. Since it's so expensive I'd like to see some feedback from anyone that has tried it first.
My husband just recently installed Rosetta Stone onto our computer, but we haven’t tried it yet. It’s supposed to be an excellent language program, but I don’t even know if the program we have covers Latin. I guess I’ll find out soon... In the meantime, maybe someone else here has tried it...?
Thank you all for the information and input on this thread.
There’s a homeschool parent asking for advice in post #61 above. Maybe someone can help: Has anyone here used Rosetta Stone Latin?
Enjoy this year with your son!
If it’s expensive, I’m against it! Consider an economical used item on ebay or amazon.
Most of the Latin resources we’ve used for homeschooling, came from my mom’s collection and go back many years. My favorite was Using Latin, a textbook from the 1950’s. Latin for Americans was even older, and also great. Ecce Romani is wonderful, newer, and more expensive.
Where newer is usually better, is in Biblical Greek.
Two cents more: Latin tends to bog down in the second year. Expect to have challenges to keep it interesting, and study Roman history and culture along with it.
Oops! How could I forget youtube?
ALWAYS check youtube.com for educational videos. Something new there all the time. Plenty of Latin language enrichment, and it’s free.
I heard Rosetta Stone is the best.
However, we can’t afford it!
We use Latina Christiana. It’s cheaper and has DVDs
It is what you make of it. My older son started with the Rosetta Stone Latin in sixth grade. We supplemented it with Latina Christiana. Between sixth and seventh grades, he taught himself a year of high school Latin pretty much on his own. The following year, the local Catholic high school invited him to take Latin II during his eighth grade year (to give them a year to persuade him to attend full-time in ninth grade, which he eventually did).
This summer, we got him Rosetta Stone Hebrew, and he learned a bit of the language over the course of a couple of months.
So, it worked out well for him.
My younger son has been using Rosetta Stone for German for a little over a year. He's not quite as committed as the older guy, and at this point knows very little German.
sitetest
Have you looked at Wheelock? It is the standard introductory text used in colleges. You can get it inexpensively used.
Congratulations on deinstitutionalizing your son and your family.