Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 478.6421
EAN num: 9780026409148
ISBN number: 0026409143
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 396
Printing Date: 1997
Publishing house: McGraw-Hill
Sale Popularity Level: 955708
Studio: McGraw-Hill
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I found these books used, and bought them to start re-learning Latin. I am much more familiar with the very first two books (they were the textbooks for years 1-3), but I looked through this one.
From what I could see, it is much lighter on grammar than years 1&2. Year 1 is most of the fundamentals of grammar. Year 2 introduces the demonstratives, subjuntives, subordinate clause structures, etc.
In year three, hands-on translation is the focus. Most of the chapters start with long translations. While translations in years 1 & 2 are usually a half page to a page, many of these are two or more pages. They are almost all classical Latin authors, being exceprts from the original texts. (Year 2 had a few exceprts from Pliny and Julius Caesar ["Omnes Gaules sta in tres partes..." Yeah, you know what I'm saying.], but not much.) The grammar is much lighter than before. Some things are explained, but the grammar is mostly unusual clause structures and poetic forms, along with lots of vocabulary. (A Latin>English dictionary is HIGHLY recommended at this point.)
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I was just kind of surprised too see this herre on Amazon.com, since it is my textbook. Overall it is pretty good, having a good deal of Pliny's letters in it. After being introduced to Latin in years I and II through the Ecce Romani series, however, this book was a little harder to deal with. The translations are real Latin, so they're harder than Ecce's made-up stories, but I think its a pretty good book.
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