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

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Writ­ing Latin helps you build con­fi­dence in your abil­i­ty to actu­al­ly wield the lan­guage and under­stand it deeply. You need to be at a rather advanced lev­el to read Fab­u­lae Gal­li­cae eas­i­ly, as it is writ­ten in a high­ly clas­si­ciz­ing style. The chap­ters first intro­duce the gram­mar point with expla­na­tions in Eng­lish with exam­ple sen­tences in Latin elu­ci­dat­ing the points. 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. For this rea­son, it is writ­ten in a straight­for­ward style, with fre­quent use of the most com­mon turns of phras­es from Cae­sar, e.

So, read and study Fami­la Romana, Fab­u­lae Syrae, Fab­u­lae Faciles, Epit­o­me His­to­ri­ae Sacrae before you start Ad Alpes. There’s a set of pirates who constantly sink and whenever they do, there’s an old pirate who always makes little jokes in Latin. We will also be producing integrated teacher support documents and advice as part of the 5th edition's digital package. Highly recommended by John Clare in The Daily Telegraph, So You Really Want to Learn Latin is a no-nonsense course which will enable you to reach a high standard of Latin in no time at all!The Teacher support section includes an outline of the pedagogy of the CLC, information on technical requirements for use of this web site, and an image gallery of downloadable CLC line drawings. Where it differs is that these fairy tales are based on the late 1600s fairy tales, which you probably already recognize. It’s a detailed course and will deep­en your knowl­edge immense­ly while also mak­ing read­ing Latin much eas­i­er and more rewarding. The final section ends with the history and culture that relates to that chapter's content and theme. Col­lo­quia Per­son­arum is a book of dia­logues writ­ten so that each dia­logue cor­re­sponds to the sto­ry and dif­fi­cul­ty to a par­tic­u­lar chap­ter in Famil­ia Romana.

In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.The second volume of the endorsed OCR GCSE Latin language course with clear guidance for all levels up to GCSE. With­out the French notes and trans­la­tions, you should per­haps wait until you have a foun­da­tion in Latin. Although the trans­la­tions and com­ments are in French, you could still get a lot out of the book by read­ing and lis­ten­ing to the dia­logues. The book tells the adventures of Caecilius, a banker, and Metella, his wife, in Pompeii from the reign of Tiberius to that of Vespasian. I think it’s interesting for readers who are only interested in modern literature and art and culture—let’s say 20th century stuff.

These will be available via subscription in due course but not immediately, as we are prioritising the free materials to make sure that everyone using the CLC has a good foundation on which to build. If you have worked through Famil­ia Romana method­i­cal­ly and dili­gent­ly, you will be able to read Fab­u­lae Faciles com­fort­ably. But somehow he does, and there is the problem (or one of them at least); the students never really get over the loss of Caecilius at the end of Book 1 and they lose interest and heart from the second book onwards.

Then you con­tin­ue to Fab­u­lae Faciles; There might be some words or points of gram­mar that are dif­fi­cult in Fab­u­lae Faciles, but then you can check the glos­sary and the com­ments in this edition. Then there are ones like the Cambridge Latin Course, which fall over themselves to be nice and easygoing and therefore useless. The book ends when Mount Vesuvius erupts, and Caecilius, Cerberus, Melissa, and Metella are killed in Pompeii.

Perhaps the opening lines of the Aeneid, Virgil’s great epic about the defeated Trojan, Aeneas, going to Italy to try and found Rome. Decens, a would-be guest of Caecilius who apparently was killed by the ghost of Pugnax (a gladiator) on his way to the party. When I was learn­ing Latin, I went through Bradley’s Arnold count­less times, both in writ­ing and oral­ly.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. You can start study­ing Bradley’s Arnoldafter you know Latin mor­phol­o­gy well and have a good-sized vocab­u­lary. To com­ple­ment the book, you can lis­ten to the audio­book ver­sion and work through the online course video course. In the latter half of my career as a Latin teacher in schools I tackled this head-on, writing more stories about Quintus, the son who survives the eruption and carries the narrative forward; this approach meant that students were more invested in the character of Quintus and felt the loss of Caecilius less keenly.