Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

BSxNÄZT aka Nate asks How’s your Latin coming along? Is there another language that you’ve jumped into learning? I’ve recently started learning Russian. Nathan from Cairns, Queensland.

I do a little bit of Latin on Duolingo every day. That said, I’ve come to the conclusion that, unless they make major changes, Duolingo is a horrible platform for learning Latin. It isn’t nearly as developed as their courses for other languages.

What I need to do is set aside about an hour every day to start going through the Lingua Latina per se Illustrata books again.

These books are like children’s books that have become the most popular way to teach Latin. There are no translations in the books. They start with the simple phrase “Roma in Italia est,” and you go from there, learning vocabulary and grammar as you go.

There are other online resources out there for learning Latin, and I am playing around with some of them as well.