Teach Yourself Beginner's Latin
by GDA Sharpley Author
(From Amazon): If you find learning Latin daunting, Teach Yourself Beginner's Latin is just what your language teacher ordered. The book makes for a friendly introduction to the language that's easy to follow, from start to finish. In contrast to other courses, it presents an exciting and humorous text, set in a medieval monastery that is under threat of attack from Vikings. It includes: Enhanced English-Latin and Latin-English vocabularies A special section on pronunciation Fascinating language and cultural information CD for quick and easy access to lessons, dialogues, and exercises
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0071424512
- Print Status
- In Print
- Units
- 20
- Pages
- 240
- Suggested Grades
- 4th - 12th
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill
- Edition
- 3
- Copyright
- 2003
Units
- 1 in silva / in the wood
- 2 umbrae in silva / shadows in the wood
- 3 mulus gemit / the mule groans
- 4 figura feminae / the figure of a woman
- 5 Egbertae filia / Egberta's daughter
- 6 in amphitheatro saeviltia / cruelty in the amphitheatre
- R1 units 01-06
- 7 puer cum diabolo ambulat / the boy walks with the devil
- 8 nos fortunatos! / how lucky we are!
- 9 quis in silva ululat? / who is howling in the wood?
- 10 lacrimae in monasterio / tears in the monastery
- 11 libera nos a malo / deliver us from evil
- 12 in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum / into your hands I commend my spirit
- R2 units 07-12
- 13 Paulus sub aqua / Paulus under water
- 14 venatrix in silva / a huntress in the wood
- 15 audire est intellegere / to hear is to understand
- 16 quis in monasterio conspirat? / who is plotting in the monastery?
- 17 peior quam diabolus / worse than the devil
- 18 versus Catulli combusti sunt! / the verses of Catullus have been incinerated!
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