The LLPSI texts are distributed worldwide, and each world region has a different publisher. After a lesson or two, I'm sure you'll be hooked, as I was. If you started learning Latin using another textbook, I hope that you will give Hans Ørberg's texts a try. Every effort has been made here to make these texts accessible to everyone, even those with no previous Latin experience and no access to a Latin teacher. This site is aimed primarily at those independent students. Just using Ørberg's texts, a student could complete a college undergraduate degree in Latin (or at least the equivalent of a minor).Īll of this makes the LLPSI series (an acronym which stands for Lingua Latīna per sē Illustrāta) a tempting choice for teachers and schools around the world, including homeschoolers and other independent learners. These include Vergil, Caesar, Lucretius, Ovid, Petronius, Cicero, and others. As a testimony to the efficiency and efficacy of this text series, the premier world educational institution of spoken Latin, Vivarium Novum, a school where Latin alone, and no vulgar language, is spoken, uses Ørberg's texts to instruct its students.Īfter the two instructional texts, multiple other readers are available to continue a student's Latin education. Moreover, they will enable a student to actually read, and not just translate, Latin texts. By that I mean that Ørberg's texts alone will facilitate the acquisition of reading, writing, and speaking skills in the language. I am aware of no other Latin text, and there are literally hundreds of Latin textbooks out there, which will allow a student to develop real fluency in the Latin language. These two books are called Lingua Latīna per sē Illustrāta: Pars Prīma (Familia Rōmāna) and Lingua Latīna per sē Illustrāta: Pars Secunda (Rōma Aeterna). To accomplish this goal, he wrote two books which carefully and systematically introduced all the Latin grammar and vocabulary (around 3500 words) a student would need to actually read (and not just translate) almost any classical Latin text. Rather than first memorizing grammar rules and then applying them to practice sentences (as with Wheelock's Latin Grammar or any other common grammar-translation text), students would first read Latin sentences whose meaning could be inferred by context clues and margin notes and then the grammar rules and paradigms would be learned and memorized afterward (or along the way). Hans Ørberg was a Danish pioneer in teaching Latin using the natural method.
Introduction to Lingua Latīna per sē Illustrāta
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