Product Description

If you are serious about learning Latin, then this is the course for you. So You Really Want to Learn Latin plunges the reader head-first into the classical world, teaching the essential grammar and vocabulary required for a confident and competent use of Latin. Ideal for learners of all ages and abilities, Book I introduces pupils to regular verbs in all six active tenses, nouns of the first three declensions, sum, adjectives of the 1st/2nd declension, prepositions, numerals and the history of Rome from Aeneas to Cloelia. Highly recommended by John Clare in The Daily Telegraph, So You Really Want to Learn Latin is a no-nonsense course which will enable you to reach a high standard of Latin in no time at all! So You Really Want to Learn Latin II and III are also available and will take you up to GCSE level standard. Answer Books are also obtainable just in case you are not 100 percent confident in your Latin just yet!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18299 in Books
• Published on: 1999-06-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

Review
The textbook everyone who ever learnt Latin should have had, and the one that everyone who wants to learn Latin now and in the future should have. It is a model of lucidity that combines rigour with accessibility and wit. --John Clare, The Daily Telegraph

Have I mentioned how happy I am with Galore Park Latin? Because I am. Very happy. Really, really happy. --A home schooler

A splendid method for the teaching of Latin. --David Bomgardner, SATIPS

From the Publisher
A new Latin course for those who really want to learn Latin!
Ideal for beginners of all abilities, this new course marks a welcome return to traditional teaching methods, yet is written in a light-hearted and entertaining style. Grammar and vocabulary are introduced systematically and are set out on the left-hand pages, with exercises on the facing pages testing only what has already been learnt. The book can be used on its own or as a valuable back-up to an existing course.

About the Author
Nicholas Oulton was educated at Charterhouse and Oriel College, Oxford. He is the Managing Director of Galore Park Publishing, publishers of this book, and is teaching Latin to his staff using this textbook!

Customer Reviews

Wasted Time Recovered
I studied Latin to 'O' Level many years ago; and wasted my time and the opportunity to explore a vibrant language and culture. As I have aged, my interests increasingly focus on classical civilizations. As a result I wanted to revise and re-learn Latin. A search engine suggested this book - and what a joy it has been. It offers an easy to follow and thoroughly enjoyable course that seems to be academically rigorous, but lively and vital, and not condesending. I thoroughly reommend it.

It is crucial to buy the Answer Book in tandem with this. It would have been more cost effective if the answers were included in the text book.

So you really want to learn Latin
I signed up for the open university`s "Reading classical latin" course and asked them to recommend a book I could use to prepare for the course. They mentioned these books. I worked through book 1 and when the course began I continued with book 2. What an excellent language course. The best guide to any language I have ever seen, crystal clear and well presented. I now find I cant do without them and will buy book 3 when the couse is over. Mick Davidson

If you really do... then you will.
I didn't have the opportunity to learn Latin at school, but always had the yearning to give it a go. This book was recommended by the Education Correspondent of 'The Daily Telegraph' and he had it bang on. This is a delight of a book. A throw-back to when textbooks actually taught facts. Provided that you put in the effort to learn, then you can hardly fail to progress. I started out knowing absolutely nothing about the Latin language. Slowly and surely you begin with the basics of pronunciation, learn, memorise and write them, then move through the fundamentals of verbs and nouns. The clarity and ease of presentation is astounding. Miraculous in this fact-reduced, learning-deficient, picture-orientated, education-subsumed world. The glory of knowledge, there for you to acquire... all you require is a little time, a little will-power, a little effort. Buy the answer book too, because half of learning is finding out where the heck you're going wrong - in my case the 'mus's' and 'tis's' keep going astray. I'm not one for giving high ratings, but this book is a rare treat. I hope you get to share it.