raeda in fossam

[teenybuffalo]

There's a TV Tropes page for Ecce Romani, the basic Latin textbook I studied with my mother as a tween.  Ah, the memories.  It was a lot of fun at the time, but all I remember of my Latin is that Cornelia was puella strenua, while her friend Flavia was puella however-you-say-lazy.  Sedenta?

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[sovay]

There's a TV Tropes page for Ecce Romani

That's just so weird.

[teenybuffalo]

I feel validated! Other people read those books, made fun of the illustrations, and thought Sextus was a dope. I am not the only one who got involved in the stupid story of how the Cornelii got their carriage stuck in a ditch.

[sovay]

Other people read those books, made fun of the illustrations, and thought Sextus was a dope.

Ecce Romani is not how I learned Latin, but I had to use it to teach a kid in middle school once.

[teenybuffalo]

What did you think of it? Was it useful? Grossly oversimplified?

[sovay]

What did you think of it?

I thought it was kind of stupid. I wrote out things like declension and conjugation charts for him instead. He seemed to learn from the combination.

[teenybuffalo]

I wonder what I'd think if I went back to it now. As a twelve-year-old, I just didn't care about languages that much, so it was merely a laugh.

[rysmiel]

That was pretty much exactly my reaction; we used this in the first year or so of secondary school Latin, and I had mostly forgotten all about it.

[teenybuffalo]

I thought no one but me remembered this series. What a trip, what a trip!