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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Latin, 3rd Edition: A Modern Approach to Grammar, Vocabulary, and Everything You Need to Read and Sp
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by Natalie Harwood
Natalie Harwood
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Latin, 3rd Edition: A Modern Approach to Grammar, Vocabulary, and Everything You Need to Read and Sp
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by Natalie Harwood
Natalie Harwood
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Overview
An updated guide to the language of the Roman Empire.
Whether interested in learning Latin or just seeking a deeper understanding of English, readers will find a fun alternative to the standard dusty tomes usually associated with Latin. Included in this revised edition are updated vocabulary lists relevant to today’s world, expanded pronunciation guides, Latin–to–English and English–to–Latin translations, and a workbook of exercises, reading passages, and tools for greater comprehension of the language.
• In 2002, the number of high school students taking Latin tests for college credit had risen 95% since 1993
• According to CNN, educators are increasingly turning toward Latin to improve student performance in reading, math, and science
• Perfect reference tool for law school, medical school, music school, and other graduate school students faced with getting through a Latin course as a requirement
Whether interested in learning Latin or just seeking a deeper understanding of English, readers will find a fun alternative to the standard dusty tomes usually associated with Latin. Included in this revised edition are updated vocabulary lists relevant to today’s world, expanded pronunciation guides, Latin–to–English and English–to–Latin translations, and a workbook of exercises, reading passages, and tools for greater comprehension of the language.
• In 2002, the number of high school students taking Latin tests for college credit had risen 95% since 1993
• According to CNN, educators are increasingly turning toward Latin to improve student performance in reading, math, and science
• Perfect reference tool for law school, medical school, music school, and other graduate school students faced with getting through a Latin course as a requirement
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781101097434 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | DK |
| Publication date: | 08/01/2006 |
| Series: | COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE Series |
| Sold by: | Penguin Group |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 400 |
| File size: | 6 MB |
About the Author
Natalie Harwood has a Master’s degree in secondary curriculum and taught high school Latin, English, and French for 40 years. During that time, she also lectured and published academically on teaching Latin. She currently teaches high school Latin.
Table of Contents
| Part 1 | Frequently Asked Questions | 1 |
| 1 | Why Learn Latin? | 3 |
| Latin--the Bad Boy of Foreign Languages | 3 | |
| Your Latin Teacher Was Tough | 4 | |
| Dead but Not Forgotten | 4 | |
| Alumneye or Alumnee? | 5 | |
| Latin Words You Already Know | 6 | |
| 2 | What Exactly Is Latin? | 9 |
| Digging Up Your Indo-European Roots | 9 | |
| A Brief History of Rome | 10 | |
| Late Latin | 11 | |
| More Latin Words You Already Know | 11 | |
| Part 2 | What's in a Word? | 15 |
| 3 | People, Places, and Things | 17 |
| First-Declension Feminine Nouns | 18 | |
| Living Things and Their Parts | 18 | |
| Places and Inanimate Things | 19 | |
| The Case of the Life of an Oyster | 21 | |
| Second-Declension Masculine and Neuter Nouns | 21 | |
| Living Things and Their Parts--Masculine Nouns | 21 | |
| Places and Things--Masculine Nouns | 22 | |
| Places and Things--Neuter Nouns | 23 | |
| A Quick Summary | 25 | |
| Mouse, Mice; House, Hice? Plurals | 25 | |
| Declensions--It's All Downhill from Here! | 27 | |
| Word Order--the Oyster Elephant's or the Elephant's Oyster? | 27 | |
| And ... Conjunctions! | 28 | |
| 4 | What's in a Name? More Nouns | 31 |
| Third-Declension Nouns | 31 | |
| The Third Declension, the I of the Storm | 35 | |
| The Roman Family and Patria Potestas | 35 | |
| Fourth and Fifth Declension and "That's All, Folks" | 36 | |
| Names for Men and Those Other People | 37 | |
| 5 | Let's Have Some Action! | 41 |
| Words to Be Memorized | 41 | |
| Really Active Verbs | 42 | |
| Slightly More Sedentary Verbs | 43 | |
| Couch Potato Verbs | 44 | |
| Conjugations, or the Perfect Marriage | 44 | |
| It's Happening Now! | 45 | |
| To Be or Not To Be Able | 47 | |
| The Goose Is Cooked | 49 | |
| 6 | Action Without an Ending--Verbals | 51 |
| To Be or Not To Be: Infinitives | 51 | |
| First-Conjugation Verbs | 52 | |
| Second-Conjugation Infinitives | 52 | |
| Third-Conjugation Infinitives | 53 | |
| Third io and Fourth-Conjugation Infinitives | 53 | |
| Seeing Is Believing | 56 | |
| Things That Must Be Seen--the Passive Periphrastic | 57 | |
| Reviewing Verbals | 58 | |
| 7 | The Good and the Bad--Adjectives and Accusatives | 61 |
| More Words You Know Already | 62 | |
| No-Brainer Adjectives | 62 | |
| Harder-to-Remember Adjectives | 63 | |
| Irregular Adjectives | 63 | |
| The Most Agreeable Words | 65 | |
| The Goods on Adjectives as Nouns | 65 | |
| Good, Gooder, Goodest--Degrees of Comparison | 66 | |
| I Object! The Accusative Case | 69 | |
| How's That? Questions | 70 | |
| 8 | Taking the Place of Nouns--Pronouns | 73 |
| Words You Should Know Yourself | 74 | |
| First- and Second-Person Pronouns and Adjectives | 74 | |
| This, That, and Whatever--Third-Person Pronouns and Demonstratives | 75 | |
| Reflecting: Reflexive Pronouns | 78 | |
| You Can Go Now! | 80 | |
| 9 | Where? When? How Many? | 83 |
| Adverbs | 83 | |
| Easy Adverbs | 83 | |
| When and Where Adverbs | 84 | |
| Tell-Me-How Adverbs | 84 | |
| Adverbs from Adjectives | 85 | |
| Ten Little Carthaginians--Numbers | 87 | |
| A.U.C., B.C., A.D., and B.C.E.--the Roman Calendar | 88 | |
| At Carthage--the Locative Case | 91 | |
| The Last of the Cases | 91 | |
| The Dative Case | 91 | |
| The Ablative Case | 92 | |
| 10 | Expanding the Time Frame--Past and Future Tenses | 95 |
| The Principal Parts of Verbs | 95 | |
| Verbs with Easy Third Principal Parts | 96 | |
| Verbs with Slightly Changed Third Principal Parts | 97 | |
| Verbs with Principal Parts You Really Need to Know | 97 | |
| It's an Imperfect World | 98 | |
| What's in Your Future? | 99 | |
| The Perfect Tenses, Active and Passive | 100 | |
| The Imperative--a Commanding Lead | 103 | |
| Study Tips | 105 | |
| Part 3 | Expressing Yourself in Latin | 107 |
| 11 | Locutiones--Phrases | 109 |
| Words Without Which You Cannot Do | 110 | |
| In the Blink of an Eye--Coming or Going? | 112 | |
| Prepositions as Prefixes--Preposterous! | 113 | |
| Hey! Interjections! | 116 | |
| 12 | Articuli--Clauses | 119 |
| Absolutely Necessary Words | 119 | |
| Time for Temporal and Causal Clauses | 121 | |
| The Clause of Much Confusion--Ablative Absolute | 121 | |
| Or ... Deponent Verbs | 124 | |
| More Deponent Verbs | 127 | |
| 13 | The Theory of Relative Clauses | 129 |
| Words That Must Be Learned | 129 | |
| Recognizing Your Relatives | 130 | |
| Whoosier Relative Pronoun? | 132 | |
| Indefinites, Intensives, Interrogatives ... Whatever | 135 | |
| 14 | Closing In on Clauses | 137 |
| Words to Learn in Order to Be Educated | 137 | |
| Subjunctive Mood | 141 | |
| Subordinate Conjunctions | 143 | |
| Clauses with a Purpose | 144 | |
| Clauses with a Result | 145 | |
| Clauses of Fear | 145 | |
| When? Why? What If? Clauses | 145 | |
| 15 | Simple and Not-So-Simple Sentences | 149 |
| I Will Learn These Words | 149 | |
| Simple Sentences--I can learn Latin | 152 | |
| Interrogative Sentences: Can I learn Latin? | 154 | |
| Complex Sentences: Although I am a complete idiot, I can learn Latin | 155 | |
| 16 | Compound Sentences and Beyond | 159 |
| More Words to Learn and Memorize | 159 | |
| Volo, Velle, Volui | 160 | |
| Nolo, Nolle, Nolui | 161 | |
| Compound Sentences | 161 | |
| Compound-Complex Sentences | 162 | |
| Indirect Statements | 163 | |
| Indirect Questions | 165 | |
| Indirect Commands | 165 | |
| Part 4 | Reading Latin--Selections from Ancient Authors | 169 |
| 17 | Selections from Republican Rome | 171 |
| Vita Terenti (The Life of Terence) | 171 | |
| Caesar: More Than Just a Salad | 172 | |
| Vita Ciceronis (The Life of Cicero) | 174 | |
| Dining Room Scene | 176 | |
| My Sister-in-Law! | 177 | |
| My House! | 178 | |
| 18 | Selections from Vitruvius et al. | 181 |
| Vita Vitruivi | 181 | |
| Vita Titi Livi | 184 | |
| Vita Plini Secundi | 186 | |
| How to Catch an Elephant | 186 | |
| The Sad Fate of Oysters | 187 | |
| Fishponds and Showers | 188 | |
| 19 | Look, Ma! I'm Reading Latin! | 191 |
| Sentences You Can Read and a Review of Cases | 191 | |
| More Sentences and Review of Verb Usage | 193 | |
| More Sentences and Hints for Translating | 195 | |
| Stories to Read in Latin | 196 | |
| Pyrrha et Deucalion | 197 | |
| Midas | 197 | |
| Psalmus Davidis XXIII | 198 | |
| Psalmus pro gratiarum actione C | 198 | |
| Part 5 | Coping with Latin in the Modern World | 201 |
| 20 | Legal Latin | 203 |
| Words to Learn or Learn Again | 203 | |
| Legal Latin Terms and What They Mean | 204 | |
| Latin in Your Law School Papers | 207 | |
| Sayings and Quotations About the Law | 208 | |
| Ancient Roman Law | 210 | |
| 21 | Medical and Scientific Latin | 213 |
| Rx for Understanding Your Doctor | 213 | |
| Reading Those Prescriptions | 216 | |
| Reading Those Signs at the Zoo--Flora and Fauna | 218 | |
| The Medical World of the Romans | 219 | |
| 22 | Late Latin and Church Latin | 223 |
| Veba Sancta: Words of the Church Fathers | 224 | |
| St. Augustine's Confessions | 225 | |
| Verba Sancta: Words of the Church | 226 | |
| Music, Sacred and Profane | 230 | |
| 23 | Live! From Ancient Rome! | 235 |
| Latin in the Federal Government | 236 | |
| State Mottoes | 236 | |
| University Mottoes | 238 | |
| Quotations on Human Failings | 239 | |
| Quotations on Human Virtues | 240 | |
| Words to Live By | 241 | |
| Snappy Comebacks | 243 | |
| Appendixes | ||
| A | Vocabulary List | 245 |
| B | Grammar Summary | 285 |
| C | Test Your Skills--Latin Exams | 313 |
| D | Answer Keys | 331 |
| Index | 375 |
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