Moving into advanced Latin

One of the frustrations anyone who studies Latin is the lack of cheap editions of the good stuff. Especially if you want notes. Cicero's First Catilinarian Oration, a traditional first encounter with unadapted Latin, costs $35 (as of this writing). This book is good—I've used it in past classes—but $35? That seems high.

It is downright cheap by comparison to what I have just had to do. My advanced students are reading Thomas More's Utopia. There are no student editions available. None. Well, there is one, but it's not really for students and costs $69. I can't pick that book in good conscience, so I made my own.

For your Free enjoyment, here is Utopia. 

Vtopiae versio bilinguis et latine et anglice edita

What Latin Isn't

In a recent discussion about teaching Latin, someone made the comment, "The sooner students get past seeing Latin as encoded English, the better they will do." (I forget who said it, but it's a great comment and I want to give credit where it is due. Anyway.)

No matter what method you're using, this will be a road block: how do I get students to see that Latin is a language and not merely English in a tricky code.