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

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Assim­il Le Latin Sans Peine is best used in con­junc­tion with a com­plete foun­da­tion­al course in Latin like Famil­ia Romana.

The very simple answer is that, as you will all know, the Roman Empire spread across the whole of western Europe to the fringes of Asia, from Hadrian’s Wall in the north of England right down to northern Africa, from western Spain right into Syria and beyond. The book tells the adventures of Caecilius, a banker, and Metella, his wife, in Pompeii from the reign of Tiberius to that of Vespasian.It’s not a magic quality of Latin, it’s because of the old-fashioned qualities of Latin teaching at its best, that grammar was taught. There was a story the other day that at Brighton College, a very good private school, the English teachers got in trouble because they didn’t know their grammar. When I studied Matisse and Picasso at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York, my professor, who was a modernist and hadn’t studied Latin, couldn’t get over the amount of classical content even in the painting around the 1910s.

With Latin Uncovered you’ll use my unique StoryLearning® method to learn Latin naturally through story… not rules. The book is writ­ten in easy but clas­si­ciz­ing Latin with a vocab­u­lary of few­er than 350 words.In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. So looking at your list: for anyone who is starting from scratch the books they should get started on are Kennedy’s Latin Primer and the Oulton. It has all the hard stuff—and, as you say, it’s very heavy on grammar—but his examples are a little lighter and more pleasurable than the 19th century ones. This site has an archive of more than one thousand seven hundred interviews, or eight thousand book recommendations.