The Happy Homeschool Mom: Visual Latin Review and Giveaway!!

If you think learning Latin has to be boring and uninteresting, you have never had a chance to use Visual Latin. Visual Latin teaches children (and their parents) ages 9 and up Latin using a series of short, interesting videos and corresponding worksheets. We have been through all of Visual Latin 1 and were recently given an opportunity to review Visual Latin 2. At the end of this post you will have an opportunity to win a downloadable version of your choice of Visual Latin 1 or 2.

I want all of my children to learn Latin. While many people think that it is a dead language and serves no importance, they are wrong. Our children can get a great understanding of language and grammar by learning Latin. Many English words are based on Latin and once you learn Latin learning other languages will become easier. But, many of the things that excite us as homeschool moms don't exactly excite our children. Mention to your 11 year old son that you want him to start learning Latin and you will see what I mean. The sigh, eye roll, and possibly the whiny voice will come out in an instant.

I can honestly tell you though, that once you start up the Visual Latin lesson, the boy's attitude will change. Why? Because Latin can be fun. Really. Dwane teaches the language in a fun and interesting way and with a sense of humor that children will understand. My boys still repeat one of the first jokes we heard in one of the very first lessons. The video segments are short, fun, and to the point. The corresponding worksheets for the lessons are not designed just to be busy work, but to reinforce the lesson that has been taught. Grammar is not the most interesting topic to learn and my son has never begged for more worksheets, but they are split up into short digestible chunks to make the grammar a little less painful :)

One of the greatest features of Visual Latin is that it brings the teacher into your home and your children can learn Latin even if you have no experience with the language at all. Everything you need is contained on the DVD or download.

Lessons are split into three parts: Grammar, Sentences, and Reading and Translation. First your child watches a short video segment listening to the teacher and seeing his examples on the blackboard. Then your child completes the corresponding worksheet. The DVD even tells you at the end of the segment which worksheet you are supposed to complete. Each video segment is around 10 minutes long. If you purchase the download version, the worksheets are included as a PDF file. If you purchase the DVD, the worksheets on on the DVD and you just have to pop it into your computer and you will find the worksheets in the files. Answer keys are included.

There are 30 lessons in Visual Latin 1 and 2. They recommend completing one lesson per week, but you certainly can adapt that however it works best for your homeschool. You can purchase Visual Latin 1 and 2 prices starting at $100 depending on whether you choose digital or DVD or starting at $209 for both combined. Visual Latin is also part of the Premium Membership offered by Compass Classroom.

You can get the first 4 lessons for free here. Check them out!

Visual Latin 2 starts off where Latin 1 Finished up. Lessons in Visual Latin 2 include:

31. Nouns | 5th Declension & Superlative Adjectives
32. Adjectives | Irregular Comparison
33. 1 to 100 | Cardinals, Ordinals, and Fractions
34. Pronouns | Reflexive
35. Adjectives | Indefinite & Irregular
36. Conjugations and Macrons
37. Verbs | Present Tense
38. Verbs | Imperfect Tense
39. Verbs | Future Tense
40. Verbs | Four Principle Parts Review
41. Present Participles
42. The Rest of the Participles
43. Supine
44. More Infinitives
45. Perfect Tense
46. Pluperfect Tense
47. Future Perfect Tense
48. Volo, Nolo, Marco Polo
49. Deponent Verbs
50. Impersonal Verbs
51. Gerunds
52. Adverbs
53. Introduction to Subjunctive
54. Ut and Ne
55. Imperfect Subjunctive
56. Gerundives
57. Perfect, Fear and Cum
58. Pluperfect, Indirect Discourse
59. Verbs | Ablative Absolute
60. Verbs | Fio, Comparative Subjunctive

I prefer the DVD version over the downloads because I live in the country and have VERY slow internet. For me it is much easier to put in the DVD then download all of the videos. But, rather then printing out all of the worksheets, I put those in Notability on the iPad to save paper and ink. I also put the answer key on the iPad so I can grade the worksheets when they are finished.

Before we had an iPad, I printed out the worksheets, three hole punched them, and put them in a 3 ring binder. I did not print the answer key, just read it off the computer.

We love Visual Latin! I love how easy it makes learning Latin for my children and me! Dwane is a wonderful teacher with great sense of humor. I love that there is not a whole lot of emphasis on correct pronunciation as there is nobody living who knows exactly how the Romans pronounced it. Children learn by hearing, seeing, and doing in only minutes a day. The worksheets help reinforce the lessons. My favorite are the translations :) I like too, that one of the things they are translating is Scripture.

My only wish is that more languages would be this fun and easy to learn. Visual Spanish maybe??

I would highly recommend Visual Latin for children and their parents ages 9 and up!

Now for the Giveaway!!!! Giveaway Now Closed

Would you like to win your choice of the downloadable version of Visual Latin 1 or 2? Enter by using the Rafflecopter Below. Giveaway will close on Sunday June 8th at 11:59 pm. Entries will be verified and a winner will be chosen at random.

Good Luck!

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Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of Visual Latin 2 for the purpose of writing a fair and honest review. I received no other compensation and all opinions are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance to FTC regulations.

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