The Art of Everyday Latin: Part I

Absorb Latin in a most practical and accessible way. A must-have for all aspiring Latinists.

Here (spread over three books) are thousands of short, manageable sentences to be expressed in Latin. They are conveniently formatted so that on an ereader, a simple page turn will show the equivalents. Everyday concrete objects are used for the vocabulary: cloth, gloves, buttons, tables, books, dogs, biscuits.The repetition makes for confidence, mastery, and a sense of achievement.

When you ask "How would I say this in that language?" rather than "How do I translate this set of foreign words into my language?" you have a surer way to hook the new language into your own world. You understand the target language right off as an attempt to communicate, not merely as a code to be deciphered.

This book is based on exercises taken from a famous textbook by George Adler, A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language. Ebook formatting makes it more accessible than ever. Perhaps for the first time anywhere, the answers have been interleaved with the exercises and modernized to fit contemporary usage.

Many Latin books do not come close to providing as this one does thousands and thousands of short communications, with repetitions of the pronouns and some of the particles that occur so often that they should be mastered early on in the course of study. Modest as it is, this book, then, can help work a revolution in Latin learning.