So You Really Want to Learn Latin Book 1: A Textbook for Common Entrance and GCSE

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First of all, he recommended that if your really want to get to the heart of Latin, you should learn passages off by heart pretty regularly. These sen­tences are writ­ten to be trans­lat­ed using the cur­rent chap­ter’s gram­mat­i­cal top­ic while also prac­tic­ing pre­vi­ous points.

It’s also a great way to learn about the myths of the clas­si­cal world that were ever-present in the minds of the Roman authors who had been steeped in them from childhood.There was a story the other day that at Brighton College, a very good private school, the English teachers got in trouble because they didn’t know their grammar. By the time I’d finished with the course it was something completely different: a grammar course with the characters of the Cambridge Latin Course as a backdrop. Latin read­ers is a genre of usu­al­ly short­er books pop­u­lar in the 19th and ear­ly 20th cen­turies. The books are clearly laid out (left hand pages introduce grammar concepts/vocab, whilst right hand pages provide exercises) and Mr Oulton has a great knack of clearly and succinctly explaining grammar concepts in a fun way. Listeners who’ve seen the Life of Brian will remember the extremely funny scene with John Cleese and Graham Chapman and the badly spelt graffiti.

Famil­ia Romana is entire­ly writ­ten in Latin and takes you from sen­tences like “Roma in Italia est” to longer inter­me­di­ate texts. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. With­out the French notes and trans­la­tions, you should per­haps wait until you have a foun­da­tion in Latin. So here’s a perfect example — in Latin, to say a good person sings a song, you’d say ‘Bonus cantat canticum. The first volume of the endorsed OCR GCSE Latin language course with clear guidance for all levels up to GCSE.That’s where we get the word candidate from — and I don’t know when was the last time you heard the word political candidate and white, pure, unvarnished in the same sentence?

How­ev­er, I strong­ly rec­om­mend you use Assim­il Le Latin sans peine in con­junc­tion with Famil­ia Romana to get the most out of both of them. The texts are accompanied by explanations of key language points, and are supported by grammar practice exercises. It is also the book for you if you have already used the Assim­il series when learn­ing anoth­er lan­guage and found it worked for you. You can either have the old-fashioned serious books of the 19th century, the 1920s, 30s which are a little dull and dry.Some of the dia­logues are sil­ly con­ver­sa­tions in every­day sit­u­a­tions, while oth­ers are pas­sages tak­en from Latin lit­er­a­ture, from Plau­tus to an ear­ly mod­ern apothe­cary oath.

The reader looks at both his life and the important historical events that happened throughout his lifetime in Rome. When I read books that teach Latin, they always try and comfort the pupils, right at the beginning of the first lesson, saying, Latin is so like English — look at the word ‘ambulo,’ I walk, it’s just like ‘perambulator,’ a pram.Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. Latin course: Teach Yourself is full of fun, interactive activities to support your learning with this course. If you're at this level of Latin knowledge, you will get endless joy out of practicing your Latin because you will not be reading the same book twice based on your choices. It’s very consoling to anyone who does Latin and finds it a bit difficult that Romans got it wrong too. You naturally think about the journey of the language, the history, the culture, the politics, the architecture, all the rest of it.