Randall Childree - Basic Latin

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Welcome to Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Latin! This book includes 170 exercises that are intended to take you from practicing Latin to perfecting it. Welcome to Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Latin! This book includes 170 exercises that are intended to take you from practicing Latin to perfecting it.

Everything here has been planned to reinforce what is most useful, based on my experience teaching beginning Latin students. Students can be intimidated, for example, by the many different forms that Latin words take. This workbook offers straightforward explanations of Latins declensions and conjugations, and lots of opportunities to practice their forms. Extra emphasis is put on the third-person forms, because they predominate in Latin texts. Vocabulary is the sine qu nn of language study; if you dont know what the words mean, you just cant do it. So the Latin-English glossary at the back of this book contains almost a thousand words, and the words included have been chosen based on their frequency in the speeches, poems, histories, and plays Latin students are most likely to want to read.

The glossary is, in its own right, a useful tool. In addition, as each chapter covers a specific group of wordssay, third-declension nounsthere is a list of all of the most frequent words in that group. If you want to make sure that you arent surprised by any third-declension noun that you ought to know, these lists are a great place to start. Latin is an incredibly rewarding language to learn. If you can read Latin, you can read works like these: Ciceros bombastic speeches and intimate letters Caesars reputation-boosting war narratives Vergils epic tale of the founding of Rome Catullus and Propertiuss startling love poetry Lucretiuss atom-centered explanation of the universe Ovids mythological metamorphoses Suetoniuss scandalous accounts of the emperors Livy and Tacituss illuminating histories of Rome Whether you are just starting out, looking for extra help, or wanting to jump-start yourself back into Latin, Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Latin will put you in the perfect position to succeed!

The alphabet of Latin is made up of the following letters: Diphthongs are two vowel sounds blending together in pronunciation. The syllable is the basic unit of pronunciation. Next page