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Title: Latin: An Intensive Course by Robert Fleischer ISBN: 0-520-03183-0 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.24 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Be sure to do your homework when reading reviews
Comment: This is a fine Latin text for the mature or adult student who is able and willing to learn and to study Latin as more than a hobby. I must add for the consumer's sake that a previous review is very misleading. "Bennett's New Latin Grammar," suggested as an alternative, is not a textbook, but a reference grammar best suited for beginning to intermediate Latin students (more advanced grammars being "Allen & Greenough" and "Hale & Buck"). Wheelock is a fine alternative to "Latin: An Intensive Course," and is somewhat easier to follow, but either book will suit a mature individual. I highly recommend using in addition a good mid-level dictionary (Chambers-Murray being the best for size, scope, and price) as well as a good beginning reference grammar (Bennett being the most readily available, and probably the easiest to use--but you'll want to upgrade later).
Rating: 5
Summary: Latin? Quickly? You can't beat this . . .
Comment: I have now completed my fourth reading of this very excellent work by Moreland and Fleischer. While it may be true as one reviewer states that many of the sentences in this book do not resemble "real" Latin by "real" authors, readers should remember that these sentences are exercises -- not passages. Their purpose is to present puzzles whose solutions will leave a strong impression upon those students who continue to the end of the book where "real Latin" does indeed occur: Caesar, Petronius, Cicero, Martial, and others are represented in brief passages.
But forget about the passages. This book shines in its ability to communicate grammatical principles clearly, in a logical order, with little wasted space. Having completed its eighteen units, students will be able to jump easily into Livy or Pliny and thence into the wider corpus.
I learned Latin from this book. I now use it as a teaching text for my independent study kids (high school). The book can be completed in about three semesters, exposing students to the entire grammar (and some reading experience) early enough to have them reading Ovid and Vergil while their peers are still struggling with semi-deponent verbs and the ablative absolute.
Forget Wheelock and buy this book. By the time the binding falls apart (and it will) you'll be well on your way to great grammatical skills. These rapidly developed skills will come at the expense of the wider vocabulary encountered in other texts, but the memorization of vocabulary is relatively cheap and easy work.
Rating: 5
Summary: So it wasn't just my book that fell to pieces....
Comment: I used this as a way to cram Latin down myself before taking the M.A. program at the Warburg. Learning Latin from this is the equivalent of getting a drink of water from a fire hose. The subjunctive in the second chapter..?! You have GOT to be kidding....but they do, and it works.
The most frustrating part is the inability to check one's translations of the exercises against anything, and yes, quite a few of the sentences are extremely contorted to the point of generating different interpretations from different Latin profs.
After I finished this I found I still needed much more practice for those long Latin sentences with N dependent clauses (figuring out what pronoun referred to what.)
Still, this will pound Latin grammer into you the way that you will never forget. Highly recommended....except yes, the binding is horrid and my copy is now nothing more than a pile of ordered pages.
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Title: 501 Latin Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-To-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged by Richard E. Prior, Joseph Wohlberg ISBN: 0812090500 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Cassell's Latin Dictionary : Latin-English, English-Latin by D. P. Simpson ISBN: 0025225804 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 October, 1977 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Wheelock's Latin, 6e by Frederic M. Wheelock, Richard LaFleur ISBN: 0060956410 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Greek: An Intensive Course by Hardy Hansen ISBN: 0823216632 Publisher: Fordham University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Title: Workbook for Wheelock's Latin, 3rd Edition, Revised by Paul T. Comeau, Richard LaFleur ISBN: 0060956429 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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