BJU Press - Foreign Languages for Christian Schools (French, Spanish, Latin)

[Speakeasy]

BJU Press - Foreign Languages for Christian Schools (French, Spanish, Latin)
While searching the Internet for language-learning materials, I happened upon the website of the "Bob Jones University Press (BJU Press)" which offers three sets of what-appear-to-be elementary through lower-intermediate language courses, for home schooling, in French, Spanish, and Latin. Used copies of the course components are available on the usual online booksellers websites.

Amazon Customer Reviews are as rare as hen’s teeth, but tersely positive. Would anyone happen to know anything about these materials (asked he, very innocently)? Would these materials be suitable for use by adults?

BJU Press - Foreign Languages for Christian Schools (French, Spanish, Latin)
https://www.bjupress.com/category/foreign-language-christian-school-curriculum

With a view to attracting comments, I have appended a LINK to this post in the "Homeschoolers United" thread.

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[Soffía]

As I said in the homeschoolers' thread:

Bob Jones University is fundamentalist Christian. Whether or not that's a good thing depends on your perspective but I personally wouldn't go anywhere near their textbooks. Apart from the ideological content, my experience (based on looking at samples and friends' textbooks rather than using them myself!) is that the quality of educational content designed for fundamentalist homeschoolers is not very high.

[Elsa Maria]

Hi, homeschool parent here with a kid who took two years of high school Latin.

I have not looked at BJU's materials, because their worldview does not remotely coincide with mine.

Do you want to know about some other Latin resources that are marketed toward homeschoolers?

Getting Started With Latin is very popular among the homeschoolers I know. This is the book we started with before online classes. It is wonderful for adults. At least this adult thought so

Getting Started With Latin
http://www.gettingstartedwithlatin.com/

Since you mentioned that BJU's materials are for elementary through lower-intermediate, I will mention Memoria Press. Their materials seem popular with homeschoolers who want to do Latin before secondary school. Personally, I find that materials intended for use before high school move too slowly for this adult learner.

Memoria Press Latin
https://www.memoriapress.com/curriculum/latin/

A lot of homeschoolers take the National Latin Exam. Memoria Press has study guides for it.
National Latin Exam
https://nle.org/

National Latin Exam Study Guides
https://www.memoriapress.com/curriculum ... atin-exam/

Of course, once you reach high school ability there are plenty of choices. My child's instructor used the Latin for the New Millennium textbook series. I bought the Teacher's Edition and used that along with my child's textbook to teach myself Latin. It is probably not the best for self-instruction, but I liked it Plus, we are secular homeschoolers and I appreciated that it is a secular textbook. I'll mention it because it isn't a series that comes up much on these forums. Its price is admittedly a deterrent.

Latin for the New Millennium
http://www.bolchazy.com/Latin-for-the-N ... P3352.aspx

I hope this is not outside of the scope of what you wanted to know!

[Speakeasy]

Thank you, Soffía and Elsa Maria, for the information that you provided and for your considered comments.

My curiosity over the BJU language courses was raised by my having come across a number of offers for used components of this publisher’s French, Latin, and Spanish courses. Using the information provided in the offers, I tracked down the BJU website and deduced that it is a publisher of homeschool supplies for children and perhaps for young adults. Although underlying theme of the product line was not something that I would be interested in, the thought occurred to me that language teaching is -- or should be -- a fairly neutral subject and that, perhaps, this publisher’s language courses might be of some use to adult independent leaners. With this is mind, I was wondering what teaching approach the authors of these courses had adopted, how the materials were organised, whether they were any good, et cetera, so as to make a better-informed decision on whether or not to purchased used copies of these language courses for my own use.

While I greatly appreciate the additional information concerning alternative homeschooling courses, and I certainly hope that others may benefit from this, I am not in the market for such materials. I understand that some people might wish to assume direct responsibility for their children’s education; however, as I will be turning 71 years of age next month, my child-raising years are long behind me. My wife and I have a three-year-old cat who has done a superb job in educating the two of us in the home.

Many thanks!