First Steps in Latin: A Complete Course in Latin for One Year (Classic Reprint)
Language: English
Published by Forgotten Books, 2016
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Print on Demand. This book provides deep background information on Latin's origins and structure so you can learn to read and write Latin as a living language. The author presents Latin as a priceless historical treasure that can materially change how we understand the present world. In each lesson, the author shows how Latin has influenced multiple modern languages, and delivers insightful methods for mastering the fundamentals of sentence structure, grammar, and pronunciation. Those who master this book will gain confidence to use Latin in practical ways and develop a better understanding of the history and relationships of the world's languages. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.
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- Title
- First Steps in Latin: A Complete Course in Latin for One Year (Classic Reprint)
- Author
- R. F. Leighton
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- Book Type
- print-on-demand item
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1330478568
- ISBN 13
- 9781330478561
- Seller catalogs
- Learning Foreign Languages
The aims of this book is to furnish pupils who have given little or no attention to the study of English grammar a complete course in Latin for one year.
The book opens with a short and easy review of English grammar. In the lessons, the changes in the forms, uses, and relations of words are explained and illustrated, so far as is practicable, from English, before introducing the Latin forms and constructions. In order to avoid or to lessen the bewilderment usually produced in the mind of the young beginner by the use of a complete Latin grammar, everything not essential to the structure of a simple sentence has, at first, been carefully excluded. In short, no effort has been spared to smooth the way for the beginner, and to prepare him for the intelligent reading of Caesar or of any of the less difficult Latin authors.
Much care and study have been expended on the order and arrangement of the lessons, especially in the earlier part, aiming mainly at two things: First, to introduce very early in the course the simple verb-forms, which are easier than the nouns and open the way to a wide range of expression; and, secondly, to give not bare words and their inflections, but sentences from the start, with both questions and answers, in natural and easy succession. The vocabularies at the head of each lesson and the exercises for translation, both Latin and English, will afford abundant material for drill on the forms. The teacher, however, will find it an excellent oral exercise to combine these words into new sentences (both Latin and English), requiring the pupil to give the translation. The first associations with any language, especially when learned by the young, should be such as to make it as nearly as possible a living tongue; the scientific study of it should follow, not go before, some elementary knowledge of what it is in actual speech.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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