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An Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin

Keith C Sidwell author Peter V Jones author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:10th May '18

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Accompanies the bestselling Latin course, designed for students learning Latin on their own or with limited access to a teacher.

Accompanies the bestselling Latin course and is designed for students learning Latin on their own or with only limited access to a teacher. Contains notes on and translations of the Latin texts appearing in the Text and Vocabulary volume and answers to the exercises in the Grammar and Exercises volume.Reading Latin, first published in 1986, is a bestselling Latin course designed to help mature beginners read classical Latin fluently and intelligently. It does this by combining the understanding of continuous texts with rigorous teaching of grammar; it provides exercises designed to develop the skills of accurate translation; and it integrates the learning of classical Latin with an appreciation of the influence of the Latin language upon English and European culture from antiquity to the present. The Independent Study Guide is intended to help students who are learning Latin on their own or with only limited access to a teacher. It contains notes on the texts that appear in the Text and Vocabulary volume, translations of all the texts, and answers to the exercises in the Grammar and Exercises volume. The book will also be useful to students in schools, universities and summer schools who have to learn Latin rapidly.

ISBN: 9781107615601

Dimensions: 246mm x 172mm x 11mm

Weight: 480g

224 pages

2nd Revised edition