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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 478.68421
EAN num: 9780521653732
ISBN number: 0521653738
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Page Count: 290
Printing Date: January 08, 2001
Publishing house: Cambridge University Press
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Reading Latin, written by Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell and published by Cambridge University Press in 1986, is a Latin course designed to help mature beginners read Latin fluently and intelligently. This Independent Study Guide is intended for students who are using the course on their own or with only limited acess to a teacher. It contains notes on the Latin texts that appear in the Reading Latin Text volume, translations of all the texts, and answers to the exercises in the Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises volume.
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The independent study guide is basically a necessity for self-learners using the Reading Latin course. It includes English translations of the readings in the text volume and the solutions to the essential exercises in the grammar volume. However, Jones & Sidwell make it a point to not give solutions for exercises marked as optional, or for the short reading exercises at the end of each section. This seems fair enough because neither makes new demands on the student, and the shorter reading exercises are meant to encourage self-reliance.
It gets 4 stars because while the text always denotes long vowels by putting macrons on them, the study guide does not except for a small handful of solutions. I can't say it's because those solutions would have been too confusing without macrons because macrons are missing from plenty of others that are ambiguous as a result (obviously it's not going to kill you - plenty of people learn Latin without macrons, but it's also not consistent with the other volumes of Reading Latin). Additionally, some of the given answers use expressions or vocabulary not encountered by the student until later in the book. Typos are extremely rare if not nonexistent.
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This course is the best buy in language learning for learners who can study on their own and are seriously interested in aquiring a language. You will profoundly enjoy it.
There is only one thing to regret: that no comparable course exists for Classical Hebrew or Classical Japanese. Learning Latin with this course will make you love Latin (even when you hated Latin in the past).
It is sophisticated, in a very British manner and approach.
This course is not for the type of student who has grown accustomed to the American "lean back and chat" "communicative" approach, who expects to get to reading Ovid in 7 days, and needs to have it all in a self-opening one-way can.
This is a serious compendium, enjoyable, intelligently designed and taught, something that will last on your book shelf.
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For those of us learning on our own, or for whom Wheelock has proven as dry as toast, the Reading Latin course (text volume and grammar volume) has been a godsend. And now with this Independent Study Guide it will be even better!
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Better yet, do yourself or your students a favor and FORGET SIDWELL.
This cancer on the body of Latin education has impaired and imperiled students for too long. Choose Wheelock, choose
Scanlon, choose to sit down and memorize Lewis and Short, but please, please, don't keep buying this putrid and detestable
mockery of a language course. If you need evidence of this man's utter madness, look to the mind-numbing exercises devoid of holistic comprehension, and to the chaotic presentation of grammar. Introducing the passive voice a dozen chapters after deponents? Absurd! Criminal! This study guide might be necessary, but it is also clumsy in arrangement and difficult to navigate. The mise en page is likely to scare new students, and turn them away from what can be a very fun and accessible language without the obstacle of a rotten mushroom like this guy. Sidwell: the sun has set on your empire of tears; you have had your day.
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