The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Latin

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Includes index.
PART 1: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: Why learn Latin? -- What exactly is Latin? -- PART 2: WHAT'S IS A WORD? : People, places, and things -- What's in a name? More nouns -- Let's have some action -- Action without an ending: verbals -- The good and the bad: adjectives and accusatives -- Taking the place of nouns: pronouns -- Where? When? How many? -- Expanding the time frame: past and future tenses -- PART 3: EXPRESSING YOURSELF IN LATIN: Locutiones: phrases -- Articuli: clauses -- The theory of relative clauses -- Closing in on clauses -- Simple and not-so-simple sentences -- Compound sentences and beyond -- PART 4: READING LATIN: SELECTIONS FROM ANCIENT AUTHORS: Selections from Republican Rome -- Selections from Vitruvius et al. -- Look ma! I'm reading Latin! -- PART 5: COPING WITH LATIN IN THE MODERN WORLD: Legal Latin -- Medical and scientific Latin -- Late Latin and church Latin -- Live! From ancient Rome! -- PART 6: GRAMMAR WORKBOOK: Workbook I: working with nouns and verbs -- Workbook II: adjectives and advanced verb work -- Workbook III: working the remaining parts of speech and other complexities -- APPENDIXES: A: Vocabulary lists -- Grammar summary -- Selections from Latin authors often used in traditional curriculum -- Answer keys.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Disappointing submitted by Isabella Giviyan on July 14, 2016, 5:35pm This book gives the bare-bones of Latin, and, in my opinion, wastes time on thins like numericals and calendars, rather than nuances of Latin language.