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1. Teach Yourself Latin Complete Course by Gavin
Betts, Paperback: 224 pages, McGraw-Hill
Begins with the basics and gradually promotes the
student to a level of smooth and confident
communication, including: Up-to-date, graded interactive
dialogues; Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and
exercises; Step-by-step guide to pronunciation;
Practical vocabulary; Regular and irregular verb tables;
Plenty of practice exercises and answers;
Self-assessment quizzes to test progress; Bilingual
glossary.
2. Oxford Latin Dictionary by P. G. W. Glare,
Hardcover: 2150 pages, Oxford University Press
The Oxford Latin Dictionary is a comprehensive and
authoritative reference work for students, teachers,
professionals, and general readers interested in
classical languages and literature, ancient history,
medieval studies, languages, art history, ancient
philosophy, religion, archaeology, law, medicine, and
natural science. Comprehensive coverage of classical
Latin with entries for approximately 40,000 words;
Definitions are in modern English and based on modern
lexicographical principles.3. Cassell's Latin
Dictionary : Latin-English, English-Latin by D. P.
Simpson, Hardcover: 912 pages
Incorporates modern English idiom and current Latin
spelling; Includes general classical information where
appropriate; Shows long and short vowels where not
immediately apparent; Indicates irregular plural forms;
Suggests paraphrases to express modern English in
classical Latin form; Cites and quotes ancient classical
authors.
4. Wheelock's Latin, 6e by Frederic M. Wheelock,
Richard A. LaFleur, Paperback: 560 pages, Publisher:
HarperResource
All the features that have made it the bestselling
single-volume beginning Latin textbook, many of them
revised and expanded: 40 chapters with grammatical
explanations and readings based on ancient Roman
authors; Self-tutorial exercises with an answer key for
independent study; An extensive
English-Latin/Latin-English vocabulary; A rich selection
of original Latin readings; Etymological aids.
5. Workbook for Wheelock's Latin, 3rd Edition,
Revised by Paul T. Comeau, Richard A. LaFleur,
Paperback: 352 pages, Publisher: HarperResource
An essential companion to supplement the course of study
in Wheelock's Latin, 6th Edition, each of the forty
chapters in this newly updated edition features:
Transformation drills, word and phrase translations, and
other exercises designed to test and sharpen the
student's skills; Word Power sections that focus on
vocabulary and derivatives; Reading comprehension
questions and sentences for translation practice;
Perforated pages for hand-in homework assignments.
6. A Latin Grammar by James Morwood, Paperback: 194
pages, Oxford University Press
A smooth flowing, accessible guide to the Latin
language, providing many short sentence examples and
explaining nouns and noun inflection, adjectives,
adverbs, verb conjugation, and sentence construction in
depth. The readability is excellent, and the information
presented is easily utilized.
7. New Latin Grammar by Charles Bennett, Paperback:
287 pages, Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci
Remains an outstanding resource for students at
virtually any level. Bennett's book is a model of clear
precision in its presentation of the basics of Latin
grammar. Bennett uses specific examples from primary
sources to help students learn the inflections and
syntax of Latin, while offering a fundamental
understanding of the sounds, accents, particles, and
word formations of the Latin language. As an added
bonus, the book provides students with a fascinating and
informative history of the Indo-European family of
languages and the stages of development of the Latin
language. Especially helpful to both students and
instructors are the sections on prosody, the Roman
calendar, Roman names, and definitions and examples of
figures of syntax and rhetoric.
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