Latin

I started studying Latin on my own and had a lot of difficulty with the explanations of the grammar. This book is really great it's very concise and has all the information you need.

A handy reference for reviewing Latin from high school days or college days. I took two years of Latin in high school. The first year we had to learn the vocabulary and grammar rules. The second year (with a different instructor) we didn't have to memorize anything. We looked up rules and vocabulary as needed--and I needed a lot. Then I started college and the other students (about 7) all had more Latin in high school than I had. All had more than two years. I struggled and tried hard but couldn't compete with the others in class, but the instructor, knowing how limited my background was and how hard I tried, passed me. The second year in college, instead of teaching Cicero as the catalog required, the instructor that year taught Livy, whose Latin was much harder than Cicero's, and so I withdrew from the course. (Today a college instructor could not deviate so radically from the catalog. Today students have rights!)

I bought this for my son who is studying Latin. I had the Spanish version in college, and it really helped me to understand how Spanish works compared to English (OK, I actually speak American!). Highly recommended for language learners (the version for whatever language you are learning).

Found this one essential to reviewing basic English grammar,and like that it is geared to students of Latin. Grammar is important in the study of Latin, and a review of Englsh Grammar helps, especially because it seems the schools no longer really teach grammar. I found this very helpful.

Just what I needed.

This is a recommended book on my first-year Latin class list. I like the division of the material in question/format (What is a verb? What is a subject? What is the Past tense?) because it simplifies a student's search, enabling him/her to find the answer/explanation quickly. The explanations are very clear, target the essential points and exemplify them by means of clear sentences immediately below. The students also find its concise, clear and exhaustive approach very helpful.

I found this book excellent in helping the student to understand the dynamics of Latin grammar as they compared to English grammar. The book really kills per se two birds with one stone since it is laid out in such a fashion where the English grammatical concept is discussed and then right alongside, the concept in Latin is presented. I used this book to prepare my lessons for both my jr. high introductory classes and high school level Latin, and in fact, I followed and taught the presentations as they are laid out in the book. I believe it gave the students a way to connect something new (Latin) with something they already were familiar with (English grammar) thus facilitating learning the Latin. You will not be disappointed.

I sent this book to my child. He said a lot of the pages were filled in on some of the worksheets, which was a disappointment.

excellent help for those of us who struggle with the finer points of grammar

I have recently started studing Latin with no previous knowledge of the language. In the 1960/70s the trend was not to teach English Grammar, I am not sure how we were supposed to learn it, according to the teaching doctrines of the time "you will know when it is wrong". This is all very well for your mother tongue, but when you come to learn a foreign language, any language, you must know the basics. This book has them! Explained in a clear, precise manner, with examples even I could understand. If like me, your English Grammar is not up to scratch and you are thinking of learning Latin (which is addictive, believe me!) you cannot go wrong with this book.

I have found this book immensely helpful in my study of Latin, and it has helped my English Grammar as well! It explains things very nicely and is a good support text to a Latin class or primary text for a self-study course, it is not a stand alone book but it is a very useful one.

An excellent book for Latin students, delivered in good order and quickly. Just one caution for UK students - the case order, for nouns for example, is that followed in the United States and different from that used in the UK. This is not, however, too much of a problem.

I have several of the other books in the series, but I think this one is less useful than e.g. French, German, Spanish. I found it particularly annoying that the English conditional and subjunctive are barely mentioned, given that these are fundamental to understanding what the Latin uses of the subjunctive *mean* in English. Still, many people (mostly native speakers of English) have no concept of English grammar, and this can be helpful in learning Latin grammar.