lowsocks wrote:After watching the video, it is not clear, to me at least, how these courses were meant to be used. Is one meant to puzzle out the grammar on one's own? That might be intriguing for some. Rather like a field linguist, documenting a previously unknown language, who must work with monolingual native speakers. But I am not sure every learner is ready for such a task.
On the other hand, if there are grammars and other aids available as part of the course (which seems to be the case for Lingua Latina), then how is the course so very different from some traditional courses, where the lessons are centered around a graded set of texts?
The extra materials for Lingua Latina do not include a grammar, but more just further exercises developing on what you learned and more practice dialogues with some output stuff iirc. The whole point is to notice patterns in the language based on the text itself. It starts with very basic things like "John is a man" and works upwards from there using, as mentioned, lots of pictures. There's not meant to be any explicit grammatical instruction in the nature method. For languages at least close to your own, so for most of those from Western Europe, it's quite intuitive. It'll be interesting to see how the Turkish and Azerbaijani ones go that Ayan Academy is working on, as well as the Czech which is a bit farther away from English than the others that've been released even if it's still IE