MINIMUS "PUPIL`S BOOK

Many books on "dead" languages are very dry (BORING). I recommend this book as a first book in latin even for adults. You can get through the entire book in a few days, and get a running start if you wish to go further in your studies. If you dont go further you will have read an interesting book. Everyone I have shared this book with realizes they too can do this latin thing. They want more. Notice there was a demand from the people reading volume I for the publisher to print a second simliar book. No one book can teach you all of latin. If this book does nothing else but change latin from a thing other people do to something you do... well it has served its purpose. Its worth the money. You will spend more than this on entertainment where you dont learn a thing. Buy the book!

Lo primero que no se me olvide, está en inglés (y en latín cuando toca, claro), pero la lengua en la que se dan las explicaciones, la vehicular, no es el español (no hay ni una palabra en español de hecho), es el inglés. Es un nivel muy sencillo, pero hay textos donde explican aspectos culturales, de por ejemplo una página entera, en inglés. La traducción de las palabras también es al inglés, si no se tiene un mínimo conocimiento de esta lengua, no merece la pena porque va a ser un lío. Puede servir para reforzar el inglés a la vez que se aprenden rudimentos de latín. No se meten en casos ni sintaxis ni nada, son oraciones muy sencillas, la mayoría de cosas en nominativo salvo alguna otra categoría de palabras que no sean sustantivos, por ejemplo alguna conjugación verbal. Lo digo por si alguien se espera que les expliquen las declinaciones y todo aquello, no, no se meten al menos en este primer volumen. Ya digo que es muy rudimentario. Yo me lo esperaba algo más profundo, pero bueno para un inicio no está mal.

I certainly do not regret buying this book at all, it was a major success. All my pupils thoroughly enjoy reading this book and they learn very quickly from it too as because of its easy to read conversation-style boxes, along side with a few major nouns by the side. At the very beginning of the book, it introduces the basic pronouns which are simple but very useful words to know where-as some books miss out these important and basic words and the pupils start to struggle as they learn to make sentences. Later on in the book, it starts getting more and more advanced and it teaches verbs, adjectives, nouns, accents and masculine and feminine words. It is very important to know masculine and feminine words, like French, because there are different words for masculine and feminine, it also presents a pattern with the words so my pupils can spot and tell the differences between the two. What I usually do is give them small cards with adjectives and nouns which the book shows and they have to match the masculine and feminine words together and also translate them into English. I ask my pupils to say a word in Latin in either masculine or feminine, then I would usually ask them to make it a proper sentence, (including the extra words which make the sentence grammatically correct)so it just shows that there are so many other things you can do with this book, other than reading it. My pupils usually find some other languages boring even when I teach them, at we go at a very slow progress but with this book, they can understand things so much easier and they find it so much more fun. We are now beginning to finish this book so I may have to start talking to them in Latin!

terrific program for kids - using with an aspergian 11 yr old.

私は学生時代、ラテン語の授業を履修していましたが、とても難しかったのを覚えています。 この本は、アメリカの低学年向けの本として書かれているので、取っ掛かりとしてはとても有用だと思います。 ネズミが進行役としてラテン語の世界に誘ってくれますよ☆