The rest, I leave up to each student to decide, based on their own learning style, using the extensive materials which are in catalogues arranged by ability level in essence, I leave it up to the student to decide what to study, and when, and how much, using the smorgasbord of highly varied resources provided: ideally, a student would work through everything in each ability level catalogue, before moving up to the next level. The skeleton of the course outline is described in some detail here: At the bottom of the page you will find a useful flow chart. The nature of the course, of course, is that there cannot be a formalised progression - there is a series of recommended paths to take (Serial and Oral Latin Course, followed by Adler, followed by Prendergast), and in parallel for vocabulary building, Comenius, Corderius and then, eventually, Pexenfelder's Apparatus Eruditionis. Reply from The Latinum Institute Sep 24, 2020 Thank you, Evan, for providing such wonderful material. There is no more wondering whether I am ready to take the next step in my language-learning journey: once I complete one of these self assessments to 100% mastery, I know that I am ready to take that next step. To date these are the best assessments in any format-be it reading, writing, or speaking-that I have encountered. I use both the Prendergast Latin Mastery recordings and the recordings of The Latinum Institute's Prendergast method used as self-assessments for each chapter of the Adler course. They are perfect assessments of your current facility with the language. These exercises do a superb job of training you to think in the language. I believe this is the pinnacle of what Evan has been working toward for the past fifteen years or so. I would finally like to mention The Latinum Institute's new Prendergast Mastery Series. If you progress through the learning material as prescribed on The Latinum Institute, no matter how long it might take you, you will have mastered the language by the end of it. Everyone learns anything, including a language, at their own pace, but once you've got it you've got it. The learner can cover the material at his or her own pace without getting discouraged by being behind the rest the class or bored by being ahead of the rest of the class. The time aspect of becoming fluent in a language is provided by The Latinum Institute in that there is no requirement to cover a certain amount of material in a certain amount of time, as there is in a traditional school setting. The recordings provide the most structured language progression I have yet encountered, including an online weekly conversational Latin course I once took that cost more for ten weeks than an entire year's subscription to The Latinum Institute. Being an independent learner of Latin and Ancient Greek with no access to a daily classroom setting where those languages are spoken as living languages, I am very grateful for the Latinum Institute's recordings that I can use on my own at home for as long and often as I want. Most of what I hear is incomprehensible, and so I learn very little. They are too advanced for me, and so there is very little comprehensible input. All of the other Latin podcasts, etc., I have encountered do not have this progression. The slow progression is provided by lessons that advance at very slight gradations in a sequence that if completed you will become fluent without realizing it, much like you have with your native language. The Latinum Institute provides both of these. Fluency in any language takes a slow progression and a lot of time. In my opinion, The Latinum Institute is the best online resource for helping a learner become fluent in Latin and Ancient Greek. Best Online Resource for Latin and Ancient Greek Fluency
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