So You Really Want to Learn Latin Book 1: A Textbook for Common Entrance and GCSE

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And, while Famil­ia Romana by itself is a fan­tas­tic book, the exer­cise book pro­vides you with count­less oppor­tu­ni­ties to drill the text­book’s mor­phol­o­gy, syn­tax, and vocab­u­lary.

Like many of these books, the textbook Latin Via Ovid focuses on using real Latin authors to build and cement your knowledge of Latin. Fab­u­lae Faciles was writ­ten to pro­vide learn­ers with a step­ping stone to Cae­sar’s De Bel­lo Gal­li­co, which has tra­di­tion­al­ly been the first Roman text stu­dents read. Fab­u­lae Gal­li­cae is, there­fore, a wel­come breath of fresh air, as it pro­vides some­thing com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent to read. The new UK/International 5th edition is currently underway, with Books I and II due to be published in 2022. By all means break them for fun, but they are completely inviolable and it’s extremely enjoyable and useful to learn them.

Read­ing (or lis­ten­ing) to this book over and over again will give you a vast vocab­u­lary and a good grasp of more advanced gram­mar. Trans­la­tion exer­cis­es are use­ful, but they will be of lit­tle use with­out ample read­ing of lev­el-appro­pri­ate Latin. As a reader, Ad Alpes focuses on building and cementing your knowledge of the Latin language through extensive reading practice.

He actually reminds me a bit of Anthony Andrews in the Rosemary and Thyme episode 'the Invisible Worm'. Some con­sist of selec­tions from the clas­si­cal canon, while oth­ers con­tain orig­i­nal or adapt­ed Latin.Daniel believes in the importance of Latin literature in the modern world and that you can teach yourself Latin with the right motivation, method, and material. The book starts by introducing a new family, a Roman aristocrat, Salvius, who is a successful lawyer and senator in Rome.