Choosing a Latin Program

I have been doing a lot of research on Latin programs over the past couple weeks. There are many out there but I have narrowed it down to two, Latin for Children and Prima Latina/ Latina Christiana.

I have compiled a list of pros and cons for each program. These are just my opinion on what is pro and what is con, yours may differ

Prima Latina / Latina Christiana:

Pros:

-Can start as early as 1st grade.

-Seems to integrate English grammar pretty thoroughly

-Seems to give extra info in TM

-Has active forum for questions

Cons:

-Seems teacher intensive

-Don’t have previews of the DVDs and CDs, so you can’t get a good feel for it

-Only gives one lesson to preview

-Only ecclesiastical pronunciation

-Lack of info on website, have to wade through forums to answer questions

Latin for Children:

Pros:

-Gives 5 Chapters for a preview

-Gives a whole lesson preview on DVD

-Gives clips of the CDs

-Student directed

-Classical pronunciation with concessions for ecclesiastical

-Pretty thorough FAQ on site

-Have additional, optional, fun activity books

-has History readers that coincide with the lessons, so that kids can actually use the skills they are acquiring

-also has a forum

Cons:

-Not sure how thoroughly every topic is explained (though the ones that were explained were very easy to understand

-can’t start until about 3rd grade level

-forum isn’t as active as Pl/LC forum

-not sure how thorough their English grammar instruction is, though the grammar they did intro I learned things I didn’t know before

I think it shows that I am leaning toward LFC, but I guess I need to talk with someone who has used it to answer the few questions I still have. A good site to go to to see the differences in different Latin programs is here.