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> but the first thing you get after buying any book is 500 grammar rules before the first word is shown There's an example of a very different approach: Lingua

> but the first thing you get after buying any book is 500 grammar rules before the first word is shown There's an example of a very different approach: Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, all in the language to be taught, starting from simple language, using pictures, etc. The most like that that I've seen for Spanish or French was this basic French dictionary: https://www.amazon.com/Mon-premier-dictionnaire-Roger-Pillet/dp/B0007DU07S https://www.amazon.com/Mon-premier-dictionnaire-Roger-Pillet... Anyone know of other books in that spirit?

toto444 6y ago
I am creating a static site in that spirit. I have shared the link in an other comment. I use emojis to define simple words and I use these simple words to build sentences and then stories.
saint_angels 6y ago
if I understand you correctly, then Rosetta Stone digital courses might be similar. No grammar or words are explicitly defined/translated, everything is taught through context with images and audio
- Jtsummers 6y ago
  Sort of. I just pulled up that book on Amazon. Check out the "look inside". The first chapter reads as an advanced version of "See Spot. See Spot run. Run Spot run!". Vocabulary is getting introduced slowly and as it builds up there is explanatory text or elaborations (in the prose or in the margins). A description of the language is being presented within the language, which Rosetta Stone doesn't totally get to. Rosetta Stone presents more and more examples with, at times, markings to help illustrate what they're getting at (-ar verbs get conjugated with -o, -as, -a, -amos, -an) but it seems this Latin book (I've exhausted my page views so can't see more sections) actually has a description of Latin in Latin, not just more words/phrases presented individually. (TBF, I never completed a Rosetta Stone course so maybe they get closer to this eventually, but that's not my impression.) https://www.amazon.com/Lingua-Latina-Illustrata-Pars-Familia/dp/1585104205 https://www.amazon.com/Lingua-Latina-Illustrata-Pars-Familia...
  - saint_angels 6y ago
    nice approach, though it looks like you have to know enough latin to understand the first pages

toto444 6y ago

I am creating a static site in that spirit. I have shared the link in an other comment. I use emojis to define simple words and I use these simple words to build sentences and then stories.

saint_angels 6y ago

if I understand you correctly, then Rosetta Stone digital courses might be similar. No grammar or words are explicitly defined/translated, everything is taught through context with images and audio

Jtsummers 6y ago
Sort of. I just pulled up that book on Amazon. Check out the "look inside". The first chapter reads as an advanced version of "See Spot. See Spot run. Run Spot run!". Vocabulary is getting introduced slowly and as it builds up there is explanatory text or elaborations (in the prose or in the margins). A description of the language is being presented within the language, which Rosetta Stone doesn't totally get to. Rosetta Stone presents more and more examples with, at times, markings to help illustrate what they're getting at (-ar verbs get conjugated with -o, -as, -a, -amos, -an) but it seems this Latin book (I've exhausted my page views so can't see more sections) actually has a description of Latin in Latin, not just more words/phrases presented individually. (TBF, I never completed a Rosetta Stone course so maybe they get closer to this eventually, but that's not my impression.) https://www.amazon.com/Lingua-Latina-Illustrata-Pars-Familia/dp/1585104205 https://www.amazon.com/Lingua-Latina-Illustrata-Pars-Familia...
- saint_angels 6y ago
  nice approach, though it looks like you have to know enough latin to understand the first pages