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[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

And I didn't even see the episode! I do, however, read LJ.

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

It's obvious that I neither watch enough TV nor peruse LJ enough - I have no idea what prompted the poll. I'd like to learn Latin properly, but I never seem to have the time. I actually bought the "Latin via Ovid" course a couple of years ago, but haven't even got throught the first chapter yet.

[purplecat]

I've ticked no for the CLC. I've no memory of what we used but Fires of Pompeii didn't jog any recollections so I'm assuming it wasn't CLC.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

I did a little 'improve your Latin before starting an MA where It might be needed' course as well as the o-level.

I did it straight after an immersion course on Welsh, with the result that the professors gathered around to listen to me reading Latin, as they couldn't work out how I'd got such a good accent. Unfortunately, they were dissapointed to learn how much of Nennius and Gildas I could actually understand.

I got my Latin O-level by noting that the Unseen Translation was usually one of Pliny's letters, and memorising the lot of them. Also because in our syllabus, in addition to seen and unseen translation, you could either do more of the above, or a literature/culture question, and one of the questions was the atrium of the house of the brothers in Pompeii: I think at that point I had memorised the excavation report and just reproduced it.

I'd like to take the opportunity to recommend The Roman House and Social Identity - S. Hales, 2003 and 'Colour and Light in a Pompeian House: Modern Impressions or Ancient Perceptions' Penelope M. Allison in A Jones and G, MacGregor (eds) Colouring the Past. The Significance of Colour in archaeological Research 195-207. I do wonder if that latter paper has had any influence on Dr Who. Probably not, but it would be nice if it did!

[segh.livejournal.com]

They didn't have the CLC when I learnt Latin. I am, however, teaching my year 10 son out of it. As I have mentioned, I wouldn't like to have to teach it to a whole class or adolescents.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Actually, nostalgia aside, I am deeply ambivalent about the CLC. While I think it in many ways an excellent attempt to revamp the learning of Latin and revive it from the stuffy rote-learning methods of yore, it has (or had - they may well have changed things since my day; I'd like to think so, at least) a major flaw IMO. It does it's job at getting one to to pre-O-level Latin very well and easily, but does not, again IMO, provide a good grounding for then taking Latin beyond O-level. While I am all in favour of the learning of Latin to any level as a goal in itself, it seems unfortunate that the *Cambridge* Latin course seemed not to have the aim of encouraging students to take Latin to A-level or degrees!

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

I have some books of the CLC, which I picked up thinking they would be useful to brush up my Latin. They weren't particularly helpful, because they didn't cover the grammar fully.

[bouncy-elf.livejournal.com]

I've just watched the episode, and the Dr Who Confidential. They showed the books! I was like, 'I remember that! Caecilius est in horto and all that!' Hah!

We did most of the books,I just remeber the various colours of them all.. Then when we came to A-level the hard stuff came out..

[emperor]

I gather it's to do with the recent Dr Who...

[vescoiya.livejournal.com]

I did the Oxford Latin Course as opposed to the Cambridge one. Irrelevant I know, but I felt like mentioning it.

In terms of results I said GCSE but I didn't actually take the exam, due to it not being offered. So I might have biased your results a bit.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I learnt with Ecce Romani books. Not that I remembered the name. I remember that Cornelius was the father, Aurelia the mother, Marcus was the son, Sextus was the friend, and Cornelia the daughter, and a quick Google revealed the name of the series.

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

I am old. We did the "amo amas amat", this is the difference between dative and ablative, here's Virgil, now translate it, method.

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

We used it in conjunction with Kennedy's Shorter Latin Primer.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Yes. I was laughing a lot at that.

(I read some of the Cambridge Latin Course because my brother did it and the books were around, but I've never studied formally.)

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

I used the CLC informally when I wanted a rough acquaintance with Latin for my research (enough to limp through easy mediaeval passages with a grammar and dictionary to hand). Since then I've done the OU Introductory Latin course, which ends up somewhere between GCSE and A-level in standard; next year I plan to take the OU Intermediate Latin course, which will take me to a little above A-level.