Latin

A handy reference for reviewing Latin from high school days or college days. I took two years of Latin in high school. The first year we had to learn the vocabulary and grammar rules. The second year (with a different instructor) we didn't have to memorize anything. We looked up rules and vocabulary as needed--and I needed a lot. Then I started college and the other students (about 7) all had more Latin in high school than I had. All had more than two years. I struggled and tried hard but couldn't compete with the others in class, but the instructor, knowing how limited my background was and how hard I tried, passed me. The second year in college, instead of teaching Cicero as the catalog required, the instructor that year taught Livy, whose Latin was much harder than Cicero's, and so I withdrew from the course. (Today a college instructor could not deviate so radically from the catalog. Today students have rights!)

I bought this for my son who is studying Latin. I had the Spanish version in college, and it really helped me to understand how Spanish works compared to English (OK, I actually speak American!). Highly recommended for language learners (the version for whatever language you are learning).

I started studying Latin on my own and had a lot of difficulty with the explanations of the grammar. This book is really great it's very concise and has all the information you need.

I now kinda understand Latin

This is a recommended book on my first-year Latin class list. I like the division of the material in question/format (What is a verb? What is a subject? What is the Past tense?) because it simplifies a student's search, enabling him/her to find the answer/explanation quickly. The explanations are very clear, target the essential points and exemplify them by means of clear sentences immediately below. The students also find its concise, clear and exhaustive approach very helpful.

I found this book excellent in helping the student to understand the dynamics of Latin grammar as they compared to English grammar. The book really kills per se two birds with one stone since it is laid out in such a fashion where the English grammatical concept is discussed and then right alongside, the concept in Latin is presented. I used this book to prepare my lessons for both my jr. high introductory classes and high school level Latin, and in fact, I followed and taught the presentations as they are laid out in the book. I believe it gave the students a way to connect something new (Latin) with something they already were familiar with (English grammar) thus facilitating learning the Latin. You will not be disappointed.

Part of learning a language, especially a scholarly one, involves thinking about how one accomplishes tasks in a language -- of attaching a verbal idea to a noun, or describing how in the past you were going to do something in the future. This series is excellent at guiding a student through grasping the (finally!) practical meaning of a past preterite tense -- of thinking about what language does and how different languages do it.

Purchased for use in an intensive Latin course, the grammar offers very good examples of English constructions and then compares them to their Latin counterpart. Worth purchasing.