guyome wrote:Another type of exercise I found useful but almost never see in textbooks is the "snowball". The textbook I used to learn Latin made (a limited) use of it and I thought it was great to help the reader build the habit of reading longer, more complex sentences:
1. Dei cives audiunt.
2. Omnes dei fortes cives audiebant.
3. Omnes dei in templis fortes cives patriam amantes audient.
4. Omnes civitatis dei in ingentibus templis fortium civium patriam amantium verba audiverant.
There's a textbook Cæsar for beginners - The Helvetic war that breaks down the beginning of Caesar's Gallic Wars like this, i.e. the beginning goes:
1. Gallia est divisa.
2. Gallia est divisa in partes tris.
3. Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tris.
...and so on. There's also audio recordings on the The Latinum Institute patreon, although I find his slow exaggerated readings hard to absorb at times.