The Everything Learning Latin Book: Read and Write This Classical Language and Apply It to Modern English Grammar, Usage, and Vocabulary

by Richard E. Prior

Book Overview

Latin is a living, breathing language Many of the English words you use today, such as ad hoc, memorandum, et cetera, and habitat, are based on Latin roots. A basic understanding of Latin will vastly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580628818
• ISBN13: 9781580628815
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Everything
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Supplemental learning

I bought this book to help my daughter with her Latin in High School. She scored the perfect score on the National Latin Exam. Remember, learning is all up to the student. But sometimes the teacher needs some help, and the school text book really sucks. Use other books for help, sometimes someone or book can explain things more clearly.

Learning Latin by Richard Prior

The author explains the structure of the Latin language utilizing words in the singular, plural, present tense, past tense and various other forms germane to the Latin language. For instance, endings in "s" pertain to the singular; whereas, "tis" pertains to the plural. The word "plane" means evenly. Planius means rather evenly and Planissime means amazingly even. Certain words utilized in English have Latin roots. i.e. o cetera o habitat o ad hoc o memorandum This volume would be excellent to assist in vocabulary building for students of Latin or English literature.

An amazing resource

This is a very clear, linguistically-updated, Latin course. Its strength is its clarity and conciseness. It's amazing how much other Latin books either beat around the bush or just don't know how to say things in clear manner. It will help anyone who is familiar with the basics of English grammar, also. Contrary to the other review of this book, I thought it was "dumbed-down" enough without being condescending. Face it, learning any language is not a task for "idiots" or "dummies".