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

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But, the increase in the informal study of Latin—which I’m all for, any Latin is better than no Latin—over the last 15 years has been enormous. It is both a nov­el with an over­ar­ch­ing nar­ra­tive and a Latin read­er with over 200-pages of sto­ries in Latin from the ancient world. Each chapter ends with a bit of Roman history, told in simple, sometimes facetious, terms - intended to appeal to school-age learners and, for an adult like me, the weakest part of the book. The magnificent Italian city of Rome is the centre of the Roman Empire and 125 miles to the south of the capital are the beautiful Bay of Naples, the slumbering volcano Mount Vesuvius, and the prosperous Roman town of Pompeii.

We hope you will continue to support us as we work to create a library of resources and options for your classrooms. However, if the main goal of learning Latin is to be able to translate the texts that the Romans wrote (and I fail to see why else one would bother! The way I teach is that I try and persuade the children to appreciate how different Latin is from the language they speak. If you read and re-read this, you will build your vocab­u­lary and knowl­edge about the myths of the clas­si­cal world.

You need to be at a rather advanced lev­el to read Fab­u­lae Gal­li­cae eas­i­ly, as it is writ­ten in a high­ly clas­si­ciz­ing style. Fab­u­lae Faciles was writ­ten to pro­vide learn­ers with a step­ping stone to Cae­sar’s De Bel­lo Gal­li­co, which has tra­di­tion­al­ly been the first Roman text stu­dents read. The 5th edition resources are under construction and it will take time for them to be as extensive as those available for the 4th edition.

By the way, readers, just so you know that Harry isn’t a pretentious wanker, I should say that if you read Amo, Amas, Amat, you will also learn what the tattoos mean on Angelina Jolie’s belly and David Beckham’s body. It has been crit­i­cized through­out the years for slight inac­cu­ra­cies, both regard­ing def­i­n­i­tions and, more par­tic­u­lar­ly, to vow­el quan­ti­ties. For this rea­son, it is writ­ten in a straight­for­ward style, with fre­quent use of the most com­mon turns of phras­es from Cae­sar, e. It seems to me that the difference between the Cambridge Latin Course and books like Oulton’s are that the Cambridge Latin Course tries to teach Latin like a babe in arms might pick up English intuitively, whereas Oulton appreciates that you’ve got to learn it as though you were decoding something.I’ve tried vir­tu­al­ly all of them with stu­dents and for learn­ing myself and found the best ones—with some room for bias—and I thought I’d share them with you. I have now completed book 1 and book 2 of this series and I am THOROUGHLY enjoying working my way through the books. Roma Aeter­na is the sec­ond vol­ume of the Lin­gua Lati­na per se illus­tra­ta series and takes the learn­er through Roman his­to­ry and myth via pas­sages from Roman his­to­ri­ans and poets such as Livy, Sal­lust, and Ovid. 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. He tries unsuccessfully to save Caecilius in Pompeii, eventually leaving when Caecilius urges him to find Quintus and deliver his ring to him.

This site has an archive of more than one thousand seven hundred interviews, or eight thousand book recommendations. At the beginning of Book 2, he is a guest of Salvius on his visit to King Cogidubnus, and tells Cogidubnus of his experiences after leaving Pompeii. It covers all the linguistic requirements for GCSE Latin, providing straightforward and helpful explanations of every grammatical construction. To find out about other components in this course, please contact us and we'd be very happy to advise.One of the strongest and most effective ways to improve your knowledge of Latin is through reading books to learn Latin. You will be able to easily read sentences and understand complex grammar that previously had seemed insurmountable. I had previously tried Peter Jones' 'Learn Latin' and had then tried reading the Latin translation of the 'The Hobbit' (a book i'm highly familiar with in English) and some Julius Caesar - thinking i'd be able to 'fill in the missing gaps', but i soon realized i was going nowhere fast!