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When you're ready to get into real Latin literature, Orberg has prepared a Pars II, which contains a graduated collection of classical Latin texts. Orberg has also written a companion book of stories to those in the text, Colloquia Personarum. Start with this book if you want to learn Latin as painlessly as this difficult language can be learned. In the back of the book are the usual, helpful paradigms of all the declensions and conjugations, the numerals, and all the vocabulary used in the text. These exercises can be done together with small groups of students in a classroom, or in a group of other Latin learners.
When you run into difficulty in completing the exercises, you learn what you don't know, and you can then go back and look up what you're confused about.
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In the first, you just add the correct inflection to the words in the sentences in the second, you add the correctly inflected words to the sentences the third exercise is a series of questions about the story, that you answer by formulating your own Latin sentences. Each of the 35 chapters concludes with an easy to follow (Latin) explanation of the main grammar points introduced in the chapter, followed by three exercises. In addition to the stories, vocabulary and grammar are illuminated through notes (in Latin) and drawings in the margins. Through the adventures of the members of this household the reader is introduced to Roman life and culture, at least as Orberg understood it. Most of the entertaining, simple stories, that Orberg wrote himself, center around a well-off Roman family and their household slaves. traditional Latin grammars is the difference between reading with understanding right from the start and painstakingly decoding, as amother reviewer put it. You're having so much fun being able to understand Latin right from the get-go, you don't mind the "See Spot Run" simplicity of the first stories. From the start you find yourself actually reading and understanding Latin without first having to translate the text into your native language, and without having first to memorize daunting paradigms of noun, pronoun, and adjective declensions and verb conjugations. Through constant repetition, rephrasing, and the graduated addition of new and more complex grammar and vocabulary the student is immersed step by step in Latin. As the subtitle, "per se illustrata," states, this is Latin explained through itself. Lingua Latina is entirely written in Latin. Orberg employs the Direct, or Natural Method of language instruction.
… ( more)Īlthough when one starts to work one's way through this Latin grammar and reader, it will seem like the Latin equivalent of "Dick and Jane" at first, this is by far the best introduction to Latin I've ever encountered. A complete line of ancillary volumes, exercises, and readers both in print and online.
A vocabulary of almost 1,800 words, reinforced by constant and creatively phrased repetition, vastly expands the potential for later sight reading. The Lingua Latina series incorporates the following features: The most comprehensive treatment of Latin grammar available in an elementary textbook. The book also includes a table of declensions, a Roman calendar, and a word index (index vocabulorum).
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Hans ørberg's impeccable Latin, humorous stories, and the Peer Lauritzen illustrations, reproduced in full color, make this work a classic. Each chapter is divided into two or three lessons (lectiones) of a few pages each followed by a grammar section (Grammatica Latina) and three exercises (Pensa). It culminates in readings from classical poets and Donatus's Ars Grammatica, the standard Latin school text for a millennium. Familia Romana (the main book of Pars I of the Lingua Latina per se illustrata series) contains thirty-five chapters and describes the life of a Roman family in the 2nd century A.D. Lingua Latina per se Illustrata is also the most popular series for those teachers at both the secondary and collegiate levels who wish to develop Latin conversational skills in the classroom. The Natural Method encourages students to learn Latin without resorting to translation, but instead by teaching them to think in the language: students first learn grammar and vocabulary inductively through extended contextual reading and an ingenious system of marginal notes. Hans ørberg's Lingua Latina per se Illustrata is the world's premiere series for learning Latin via the Natural Method.
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