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

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There’s no two ways about it, it’s quite boring, but the pleasure that comes from having learnt all this is enormous. So that’s what you’re talking about, the dropping of the ‘m’, the consonant, at the end of the word. So I invented a whole new storyline in which Quintus falls in love and tries to elope with the household slave-girl Melissa, but then loses her in the chaos during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The book ends when Mount Vesuvius erupts, and Caecilius, Cerberus, Melissa, and Metella are killed in Pompeii.

Bear in mind that “Latin prose com­po­si­tion” here means trans­lat­ing select sen­tences and pas­sages from Eng­lish into Latin to prac­tice a par­tic­u­lar aspect of the lan­guage. Writ­ing Latin helps you build con­fi­dence in your abil­i­ty to actu­al­ly wield the lan­guage and under­stand it deeply. Similar to Ecce Romani and Lingua Latina, Ad Alpesuses a narrative structure to help you practice reeling Latin. I then spun out the story of Quintus grieving her loss and ultimately finding her again as a replacement to the thoroughly tiresome stories in Book 2, all of which I ditched. 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.By all means break them for fun, but they are completely inviolable and it’s extremely enjoyable and useful to learn them. At the end of each chapter is an amusing snippet of roman mythology and history, starting from Aeneas, progressing through the Etruscan kings and into the major events of the Republic.

The reader looks at both his life and the important historical events that happened throughout his lifetime in Rome. Due to the large vocab­u­lary, Epit­o­me His­to­ri­ae Sacrae is more dif­fi­cult than the pre­vi­ous ones on this list. 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.

I suppose the reason the Cambridge Latin Course was introduced in the first place is because if you learn code, it’s very dull, so you risk turning a lot of children off. Since it is a companion to the Lingua Latina series, it is likely you will want some knowledge of Latin already. This can be reading ancient Romans, such as Cicero, Caesar, and others, but it can also be from short stories and novellas written for contemporary audiences and Latin learners. He helps Salvius in his plot to kill Cogidubnus, but begins to rebel against Salvius's authority, as he feels he deserves the kingship.

It’s a detailed course and will deep­en your knowl­edge immense­ly while also mak­ing read­ing Latin much eas­i­er and more rewarding. It has been crit­i­cized through­out the years for slight inac­cu­ra­cies, both regard­ing def­i­n­i­tions and, more par­tic­u­lar­ly, to vow­el quan­ti­ties. Rufilla, Gaius Salvius Liberalis' wife, a relative of Quintus' who invites him to stay with them in Britain. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Ecce Romani is engaging for younger students, who follow the storyline of the Cornelian family that travels from the Italian countryside into Rome.For those who don’t know it, the Cambridge Latin Course spoon-feeds children, patronizes them, it expects them not to learn all these things—like conjugations and declensions—so they’re forever feeling in the dark, because they haven’t learned the basics. It’s so satisfying: it’s a better version of Sudoku, it’s a better version of the Times crossword, it’s a better version of a jigsaw puzzle.

Salvius coordinates the death of Paris, a famous pantomime actor, and exiles Domitia, the emperor's wife, whose affair with Paris was exposed. Let’s go on to your next book, which is a guide to how to learn the language for young pupils, or even adults, maybe. The Asterix books, for those who haven’t heard of them, by Goscinny and Uderzo, are a brilliant, brilliant series of comic strip books about Asterix, a little Gaul from a village that holds out against Roman occupation in the 1st century BC. In addition, both Eduqas and OCR examination boards endorse the Cambridge Latin Course for GCSE teaching.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. All Latin teachers who use this course supplement the grammatical content to a greater or lesser extent, and who hasn’t been frustrated by the fact that many of the chapters introduce a new grammatical concept and then give a load of exercises about something completely different? Moving on from the destruction of Pompeii, Book 2 captures the daily lives of the inhabitants of two provinces at opposite ends of the Roman Empire, Britain and Egypt. For this rea­son, it is writ­ten in a straight­for­ward style, with fre­quent use of the most com­mon turns of phras­es from Cae­sar, e.