Possible Curriculum

In addition to doing this stuff on your own, you need to get to places where you can speak Latin too!  (see 'spoken Latin opportunities')

General Advice:

• Listen to audio in the car.

• Tape yourself reading texts and listen to them (I'm told the Neo-Latin Colloquia are particularly good for this) 

  • read the words you don't know in that passage on the same tape to practice them after you read the text and listen to them both on a loop.  

• Tell yourself stories in Latin or just talk to your self in Latin.  

• Practice a particular construction as you go to sleep.  I fine the passive periphrastic particularly soothing.  I kid you not.

  • Practice translating (gasp- I know) a regular English text so you have to deal with more complex grammar you might avoid otherwise.

  • Review vocab while exercising.  I usually just repeat a few Latin words over and over while picturing what they mean as I ride my bike. 

  • Meditate to Latin.  I particularly like the Vulgate or something religious for this, but anything you like can work.  

  • Try to reformulate in your head or on paper what a text said in your own Latin words or as close as you can get to theirs without looking.  

  • Find local spoken Latin events.  You don't have to speak if you are nervous!

  • Journal in Latin.  I use a journal app on my phone. 

  • Read Latin every day.  I have found Ovid's Metamorphoses a good easier but interesting text.