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For someone who is interested in learning Latin on their own, what is a good resource?

The article specifically mentions that Fr. Foster's book is ill-suited to self learners and is more appropriate for a classroom setting.

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If you are interested in the "Living Latin" as a spoken language as Foster teaches, you can't really do that on your own. But really, most people interested in Latin aren't really interested in that but really just want to read Latin. And you certainly can do that on your own. There are lots of textbooks, but probably the most popular is Wheelock's Latin which has the advantage that if you don't understand a particular exercise, you'll have no problem finding someone to explain it to you on the Net.

The Oxford Latin Course is a good standard college-level introduction. There is also Lingua Latina if you want to go full immersion.

Is Lingua Latina appropriate for self-learners?

We've used it with our home-educated high schoolers (though with tutors), and it's also used at the International Theological Institute in Vienna, where some of our kids go. Seems like a good program.

The "Latinum" YouTube channel seems good when I looked it over last :

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEekt9eu1g-yEGq6XUlRSIg

Gutenberg has a free textbook from 1911. No idea whether it's any good or not.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18251

The Cambridge Latin series--which my son used in school--looked better to me than the ones I remember from my own youth.

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