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Summary: Good complement to the text.
Review: This book has useful exercises that go right along with what you will learn in the Wheelocks text. I am still trying to get an answer key (2 months later). Most of the exercises can be proved correct with a little work, although it can be daunting and frustrating.
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Summary: Excellent Practice
Review: This is a very helpful supplement to Wheelock's Latin! Be sure to send away for the answer key if you are using it for independent study. I did my initial study two years ago and am now using this book again to help me review and brush up on what I have forgotten.
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Summary: Good - depending on your needs.
Review: This is an excellent book in many ways, particularly for people who are having problems with Latin because their knowledge of basic English grammatical terms and concepts is a little fuzzy. I think it's probably a five star book if this is your problem.However, if you're already linguistically adept in your native language (or in a foreign language), it's probably going to be a little too elementary for you. In terms of its usefulness, it's a 2 or 2.5 star book for folks in this category.
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Summary: Good Questions but no answers
Review: This is an excellent workbook to compliment the Wheelock's latin text. The only problem is that there are is no answer guide thus making it extremely hard to know whether you are right without asking the teacher everytime.
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Summary: Ask and ye shall receive
Review: This is apropos only to the answer key controversy, not a book reveiew per se. Either HarperCollins has changed the policy recently (I am writing this on March 7, 2003) or those people complaining about not being able to get an answer key are just not asking very nicely. I called the 800 number, spoke with a very nice customer service rep (named Patty, I think), requested the key, and UPS rolled up about 10 days later with a parcel. It couldn't have been much more painless. With respect to the book itself, I've only just started my lessons. But no complaints so far.
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Summary: Homeschool mom
Review: This series has been invaluable for teaching myself Latin- so I can in turn teach my children. Though there is no key to the workbook offered here, the publisher offers one free of charge to those in a self-study program. (Check on the copyright page of the workbook.)
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Summary: Another homeschool mother
Review: This workbook is a great for drilling/mastering the Latin concepts in the corresponding chapters in Wheelock's Latin. I'm working through it now myself. I really like extra drill for mastering/internalizing a new language, even though I don't have trouble with grammatical concepts in general (I studied Spanish and French in college, and German after college. I love languages--I was also a computer software consultant before I began homeschooling my children). I'll also be using this workbook with my kids when they're ready for it (perhaps in 7th or 8th grade). They're currently working through Martha Wilson's Latin Primer series. Also, thank you very much to the reader who posted the 800 number for the publisher. I called it to request the answer key after I ordered the workbook here on Amazon. They sent it at no charge via UPS, and it arrived in just 6 days (and it beat the workbook to my house).
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Summary: Useful for practice but no substitute for classes.
Review: This workbook provides useful additional practice in tandem with Wheelock's Latin, because the grammar and vocabulary for all chapters coincide exactly. Be aware, however, if you purchase this as a supplement to your studies when it is not required by your class, that the ANSWERS to the questions ARE NOT IN THE WORKBOOK but may only be obtained by a school's request. You might check with your teacher to see whether he/she would be willing to grade the work for you, or do as I did and use it as an open-book practice tool.
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Summary: Incorrect
Review: Veni, Vidi, Vici means I have come, I have seen, I have conquered.
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Summary: A great aid to later editions of Wheelock
Review: Wheelock is one of the better books to use for learning Latin, both in classroom and private study settings. One of the disadvantages of Wheelock is that more practice assignments are generally needed than come with the standard chapter questions and sentences. This book by Comeau and LaFleur is of assistance here. LaFleur has 'inherited' the Wheelock text, and is responsible for updated editions. Comeau and LaFleur follow the same sequence of chapters as does Wheelock, and draw much of the material from the supplementary exercises given by Wheelock in the back of his book. Each chapter's exercises are arranged in four headings - objectives, grammar, drill, and practice sentences. It is in the grammar and drill sections that the real value of this text comes through, given that the practice sentences are already in Wheelock (and the key to them is there). This is a real workbook -- fill-in-the-blank-type of formatting make it useful for the student to write directly in the book. These could be scored in class, or (where the key is available) by the student himself or herself. There are no supplemental materials here -- no index, no glossary, no key -- as all of these are in Wheelock, and the book assumes ownership of the Wheelock book already. A useful supplement, this book is worth getting for those who wish to master the material in Wheelock more quickly and more completely. There is an online key to the exercises for those who wish the material (registering at the publisher was required for this when I did it).
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