einzelne wrote:daegga wrote:finished review round of Lingua Latina - I need and will take a break from Latin now
Could you tell more about you experience? Did you just read, without thinking about grammar much? (If I understood you correctly, you didn't bother about pensa, right)?
Are you planning to return to Latin? If so, what are you planning to do after LLPSI?
It's not as straight forward as with French.
Some background:
Back at university I had to prove high school level Latin (whatever this means) to be allowed to study my track. Since I never had Latin in school, I had to do an exam at the university, which they offered a 2-semester intensive course for (I took it for 3 semesters before I sat the exam) - classical grammar translation method. So we had to translate a text with the help of a dictionary, I had to prove orally that I knew the first 1000 most frequent words and had to explain some grammar points. Now this has been a while and I have forgotten most of it, but there is some basic Latin grammar knowledge in the back of my brain, and the issue is mostly vocabulary.
I do not have any specific goals for Latin - I picked up the book after I started the French one from the same method because I read that it is apparently the best one in the series - so I just wanted to try it for myself.
So my main method:
* read through the chapter (either all in 1 day, or 1 lectio per day and then the whole chapter again on a separate day, depending on the difficulty), aiming for 99% comprehension using the margin notes
* do the pensa (only did this for the first few chapters)
* read the colloquia
* read the texts in Fabellae Latinae (the extended version you can find online)
* move on
* after 8 units, read all of them again to check my ease of understanding without the margin notes (mostly)
I stopped doing the pensa after a few chapters because I had to look back at the new vocabulary list all the time either to remind me of the exact spelling, or of the noun/verb class, and I don't think I gained much by it. So the intention was to maybe go back to them in a later review when enough input hopefully did the trick so I can do them without cheating.
As for grammar awareness while reading: I did not just read for comprehension, but did pay attention to the details (also having a look at the grammar explanations at the end of the chapter to know what I should look out for). I did not try to remember grammar tables though (e.g. all the demonstrative pronoun forms, the casing is usually apparent from context anyway in the book).
During my review rounds, I found the chapters fairly easy to digest except for the last one I did (16) - more because of the vocabulary then the grammar. So I might need to read on and then go back to 16 to see some improvement there.
My plans where to just follow the Ørberg method and surrounding works: use Colloquia and Fabellae Latinae during LLPSI, follow up with Fabulae Syrae and Epitomae Historiae Sacrae and then go on to Roma Aeterna and some of the annotated readers (Caesar, Vergil etc.). But this plan might need to be revised after I finish LLPSI. And I have not planned further than that.
As for will I actually return: depends on available time and mental energy (and other priorities).