Ecce Romani Level 1-A

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Summary: To the authors of ECCE ROMANI!, PLEASE write more books!!!
Review: I address this to the excell. authors of the ECCE ROMANI series of Latin texts:
Since the ancients did not write texts for begin. and intermed. students of Latin, PLEASE consider writing more Latin stories which these students can follow as they study Latin. The great Latin works are too advanced, but your story of the Gaius Cornelius family is so interesting. Do you also have a series of Italian or French language texts similar to the ECCE ROMANI series with similar stories? PLEASE write more; I love this series of texts!

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Summary: An Excellent Textbook
Review: I took Latin I and II using the Ecce Romani series. When I switched schools, I had to switch to using the Cambridge Latin Course Unit 3 book for Latin III. I began to realize how lucky I had been to have been using the Ecce Romani series. The Cambridge books are very poorly written. The new vocabulary for each chapter is not put together very well in a way that makes it easy to learn. Since there are many little stories in each chapter, as opposed to the one big one and occasional second enrichment reading in the Ecce Romani books, there is vocab under each story. They tried to make a vocabulary list at the end of each chapter, but it never contains all the vocabulary listed under each story. The Ecce Romani books do a much better job of condensing the vocabulary and putting it all in one place, making it easier to learn. The Cambridge books are very confusing to look at and read because only proper nouns are capitalized. The back sections of the Cambridge books also only contain a Latin-English dictionary, so you're out of luck if you want to look up what an English word translates to in Latin. The Ecce Romani books contain both an English-Latin and Latin-English dictionary. The Ecce Romani series also does a much better job of explaining the grammar you learn each chapter. All the Cambridge books do is give you an example, not actually telling you how to form it in a sentence. The Ecce Romani books also have more challenging practice problems, and more of them, than the Cambridge books. The Ecce Romani series also follows the same characters through the first two books, and gives a much more interesting storyline than the Cambridge series. On a more artistical note, the Ecce Romani books are much more interesting to look at, with color pictures that don't look like quick sketches, like the black and white Cambridge pictures do.
DO NOT buy the Cambridge series books. The books are very poorly written. The Ecce Romani series is a much better Latin textbook series, which I highly recommend for anyone studying or planning on studying Latin.

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Summary: Ecce Romani is for everyone!
Review: What an excell. book! I'm revisiting the joy of learning a new language and find that this text is so easy to learn from. Instructions are clear, the stories are interesting and appear to portray situations as they could have taken place in ancient Rome. I will certainly order the other texts and continue my new love for a "dead" language. Hats off to the authors for creating such an entertaining way to study.