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Summary: A Great Text for Serious Latin Students
Review: I used this text book at the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, a school for gifted and talented students of the State of Louisiana. This text prepared me very well for college latin. Its structure is easy to use, its contents are easy to understand. It made Latin a fun and interesting second language. I recommend it to all students seriously interested in studying Latin.Blandon Creel LSMSA Graduate 1998
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Summary: Not just a textbook!
Review: After having used Wheelock's Latin as a textbook, I just kept going back to it as a reference. The information is well laid out, easy to understand, and easy to find. The glossary and charts are also very helpful when going onto reading more in Latin. I can not imagine approaching the Latin language without it!
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Summary: Textbook Latin--not "real" Latin
Review: Wheelock provides one with the basics of Latin in an easy-to-understand format, but, unfortunately, moving on to unedited Latin texts will be difficult for the Wheelock-trained. A better book is Moreland & Fleischer's Latin: An Intensive Course (U of California Press). It covers more of the "obscure" constructions that are common in real Latin.
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Summary: Optime!
Review: I start learning Latin by myself from zero. My friend recommended me this book and I found that it's downright easy to learn Latin. Wheelock's Latin provides not only fertile latin grammatical explanation but also "Sententiae Antiquae", the original Latin sentences from ancient Romans. You can understand Latin easily by yourself and also, in the meantime, enjoy what Romans wisely said while in their era!
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Summary: OPTIME
Review: In the beginning of this school year I took latin and made the bad choice of dropping the course. I now see how much the language is intersperced throughout history and our own language. I'm taking latin next year but to make sure that I will do well in the course I purchaced this book to cover on my own. I never thought that a language could be so much fun. It is presented in a very readable manner and has translations in the first chapter. I began my quest of the language as a way to get ahead of the class but now it is my love of the language that keeps me useing the book.
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Summary: Good book to use with on-line study group
Review: Wheelock is the basis for an on-line study group, which usually has people at several levels of instruction. It's a very effective combination.
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Summary: By far the best language book I have ever used!
Review: Wheelock's Latin is by far the absolute best book I have ever used to learn a foreign language (and I know five). His explanations are easy to understand, his grammatical points straight-forward and his practice sentences challenging but not overwhelming. I particularly liked the numerous examples of actual classical Latin in the book; it is such a great feeling to read these authors in their original language! Look no further - this is the book for you!
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Summary: Easy system for learning Latin
Review: I used this book in college, and in combination with excellent professors at Rutgers University, I easily picked up the grammar and basic vocabulary. Later, while reviewing, I found the text to be just as friendly without an instructor to complement it. The book stands on its own, including drills, advanced work if you choose, and a dictionary of all terms used in the book
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Summary: the best latin grammar you have ever had
Review: do not look further, you got i
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Summary: Lots of yes and a little no!
Review: I decided to teach myself Latin a few months ago, and bought this book, the workbook, the "comprehensive guide", a dictionary, and the Latin Now! computer CD. I probably spend 3-4 hours a week studying.
This book is all it claims to be. The material is presented clearly and fairly completely, but you will be happy to have the other resources if you are working on your own.
As others have mentioned, the lack of answers to the exercises is a very major drawback, only partly compensated for by the self-tutorial exercises in the back of the book. Giving translations for the sentences and little stories would be a big help.
However, that hasn't stopped me from working with the book. Latin IS difficult. My hope is that it is keeping my brain young! review by Janet Knori, author of Awakening in God
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