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Teach Yourself Beginner's Latin (Book Only) 3rd ed. [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 198x131x17 mm, weight: 213 g, Illustrations
  • Serija: Teach Yourself: Language
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Dec-2003
  • Leidėjas: McGraw-Hill
  • ISBN-10: 0071424512
  • ISBN-13: 9780071424516
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 198x131x17 mm, weight: 213 g, Illustrations
  • Serija: Teach Yourself: Language
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Dec-2003
  • Leidėjas: McGraw-Hill
  • ISBN-10: 0071424512
  • ISBN-13: 9780071424516
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
A guide to learning Latin offers lessons on Latin vocabulary and grammar, with practice exercises, reading selections, and suggestions for students.

If you find learning Latin daunting, Teach Yourself Beginner's Latin is just what your language teacher ordered. The book makes for a friendly introduction to the language that's easy to follow, from start to finish. In contrast to other courses, it presents an exciting and humorous text, set in a medieval monastery that is under threat of attack from Vikings. It includes:

  • Enhanced English-Latin and Latin-English vocabularies
  • A special section on pronunciation
  • Fascinating language and cultural information
  • CD for quick and easy access to lessons, dialogues, and exercises
introduction v
pronunciation guide
essential grammar
index of grammar support
symbols and abbreviations
in silva in the wood
1(10)
subjects and objects
the cases: nominative, accusative and ablative
est and sunt the classics
umbrae in silva shadows in the wood
11(8)
singular and plural forms a question of rhetoric
mulus gemit the mule groans
19(12)
masculine, feminine and neuter nouns
prepositions speaking as the Romans did
figura feminae the figure of a woman
31(10)
genitive case
questions `anyone' for a cancan?
Egbertae filia Egberta's daughter
41(11)
declensions: nominative and genitive
vocative case
adjectives reformation and renaissance - life after death
in amphitheatro saevitia cruelty in the amphitheatre
52(11)
more adjectives
potest, vult, debet
infinitives
dative case Latin wanted - dead or alive?
revision I (units 01-06)
63(70)
puer cum diabolo ambulat the boy walks with the devil
67(10)
third declension noun di immortales
nos fortunatos! how lucky we are!
77(12)
verbs: first and second conjugations: present and future brotherly love
quis in silva ululat? who is howling in the wood?
89(10)
third declension adjectives
gerundives
speculator amicae
lacrimae in monasterio tears in the monastery
99(10)
third, fourth and mixed conjugations: present and future
how to recognize a conjugation
esse, posse, velle miserabile corpus
libera nos a malo deliver us from evil
109(9)
imperfect tense
adjectives: -ens
present participles
adjectives as nouns
Yaysoos in chaylo
in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum into your hands I commend my spirit
118(15)
perfect tense
personal pronouns
my, your, our the murder in a cathedral
revision II (units 07-12)
133(61)
Paulus sub aqua Paulus under water
133(11)
past participles
eo, ire a winter's night
venatrix in silva a huntress in the wood
144(9)
fourth and fifth declensions
pluperfect tense
compound verbs a hunting moral
audire est intellegere to hear is to understand
153(10)
ille, hic, is, ipse, se
passive forms all's fair in philosophy, love and war
quis in monasterio conspirat? who is plotting in the monastery?
163(11)
subjunctive
imperative
ut and ne
cum friends, Romans ... and family
peior quam diabolus worse than the devil
174(11)
more passive forms
deponent verbs
comparative and superlative of adjectives the consolation of philosophy
versus Catulli combusti sunt! the verses of Catullus have been incinerated!
185(9)
`if' clauses
direct and reported speech love in the rain
reference tables 194(12)
key to the exercises 206(13)
Latin-English vocabulary 219(10)
English-Latin vocabulary 229