Wheelock’s Latin
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- ISBN13: 9780060783716
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The classic, single–volume introductory Latin textbook, introduced in 1956 and still the bestselling and most highly regarded textbook of its kind.
Wheelock’s Latin, sixth edition, revised, has all the features that have made it the best–selling single–volume beginning Latin textbook, many of them revised and expanded:
o 40 chapters with grammatical explanations and readings based on very ancient Roman authors
o Self–tutorial exercises with an answer key for independent study
o An wide English–Latin/ Latin–English vocabulary section
o A rich selection of original Latin readings –– unlike additional textbooks which contain primarily made–up Latin texts
o Etymological aids
Also includes maps of the Mediterranean, Italy and the Aegean area, as well as copious photographs illustrating aspects of classical culture, mythology, and past and literary facts open in the chapter readings.
o The leading self–tutorial Latin program. Also fantastic for college and accelerated high school courses.
o Wheelock’s Latin is the top–selling Latin reference in the US.
o Interest and enrolments in Latin have been steadily rising in the U.S. for the past 20 years. One–half million people are currently enrolled in Latin classes, and at least 10,000 teachers, professors and graduate assistants are teaching the language in America.
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Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is for you if you want to study Latin as it is currently thought to have been spoken during Roman times (dispite the fact no one is really sure and there aren’t any Romans around to speak with anyway). This has its excellent points such as etymological aids and what not but the kind of Latin studied in the book is not for persons who wish to use Latin for Modern purposes. This book will perpetuate the concept in the user’s (not reader’s) head of Latin as a Dead Language. Most of the vocabulary is for things that we don’t have or say anymore. As stated above the Pronunciation guide is off from Modern use and there really aren’t any Latin Speakers language this way. This text will not erect fluency and after a while it become very redundant with the user knowing about a houndred ways to translate the sentence “Philosophy is excellent.” There are copious points of mention of the ancient Roman and Greek gods and the plural form of the word Deus is shown and used which will place several users of monotheistic background on guard.
Do not be fooled by reviews that basically point to this as being the Bible of Latin (as opposed to the Bible in Latin). This text is not exhausetive and really will only give you a very elementry education in Latin that leaves you ill prepared for reading modern Latin text. When reading you will undoubtably be adage English in your head using the translation formula provied by the leader as opposed to really adage the Latin and understanding the meaning. In that sense the Latin is really only shown as a code for English thus forwarding the perception of Latin as a Dead Language. Also some of the authors comments are really weird and he even admits that his goal is the make the learner Groan.
If you are not Catholic and want to pretend that you can go back in time and talk to Caesar or Cicero then you should use this book. This book is only for thost that reflect of Latin as clean but have no use for it in Daily life.
If you are a Catholic and have serious uses for the Latin Language as a living language that will play a part in your daily life then do not use this book for it will place you off Latin and make you feel that the Latin Language is worthless. The prununciation uses in this book is not the right pronunciation used in the Chruch. Catholics should look for Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin which is a better book anyway and will really foster Fluency. Then look for Let’s Read Latin With Tape which will give you your prayer in Latin with very excellent explanations to what they mean.
Just so I can be clear, this book is not for Catholics and is not Catholic Latin. This book is loved by persons who specifically want to use Latin that is not used in the Catholic Church which is why they changed the Pronunciation.
If you are a Catholic, do not buy this book.
If you really want to study Latin to value it as a language do not buy Wheelock for the following reasons:
The non use of the letter J
The use of Macrons
The pronunciation open in the book really makes many of the words hard to say and forces the student to only be able to admit a word in written form. You will be sounding like you are language German as a replacement for of Latin, Italian or French.
The book fails to give the right information about the formation of the perfect tense so that students can conjugate in their heads so as a replacement for students must look up the perfect form in the glossary.
The book fails to give proper information on the stress of a Latin word that lets you hear the difference in a word apart form seeing a visual macron.
Only 40% of the book is dedicated to teaching the language, the additional 60% clarifies about Very ancient Rome and props Cicero up on a pedistal. There are also very inapropriate sections authored by Catullus.
The book doesn’t present nearly enough grammatical structures and should have spent more time on language acuasition and less on “isn’t Cicero fantastic for putting people to death lacking examination.”
The grammar comes way to slow.
The teaching method used in the book is the grammar memorize, translation method that has been shown to be a hinderence to students who really want to know the language and prompt themselves in the language.
This book assumes Latin to be a dead language and promotes this thought in the leader’s notes.
This book lies to students about certain grammatical structures in how to form them and why they are formed that way. The subjunctive looks like the infinitive by manufacturing accident not design as stated in the book. The leader mistakes the gerund for the gerundive in chapter 39. The book aserts that dread clauses used to be seperate jussive clauses, this is not right, they were permanently part of the same sentence. The book really tells students that the present paraphrastic can not be formed, it can. The book tells the student that the subjunctive is a ‘coulda, shoulda, woulda’ tense of a verb when it is just not right. The subjunctive is a grammatal tense with no meaning outside of idiom as nearly all inflexive languages includeing Japanese has. The ablative is shown to be a preposition/adverb case when really it, like the subjunctive, is used only for syntax and grammar to you can know the sentence. Wheelock tells these lies to get the student to more easily translate into English but they prevent the right understanding of the Latin Language.
The vocabulary fucused on in Wheelock is weird and not very useful for daily life and thus not retained by the student. Many words open for vocabulary study are only ever used by one leader and maybe only once.
Wheelock fails to give enough information about how the declentions are related to each additional.
Wheelock fails to present many very common prepositions that were in frequent use even before Cicero.
Wheelock has the student translate sentence after sentence so that they will only know the English meaning. It lacks drills for person, case, mood changing that would erect fluency and have the student making new Latin. Students that use this book will not be able to make a Latin sentence off the top of their heads by the end of it.
The name of this book really should be changed from and introductory course in Latin to Cicero and the Late Republic. This book is not worth your money if you really just want to study Latin as a Language. If you want to study Cicero and Catullus nearly exclusively and don’t care to be able to read any additional authors then this book is for you.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This book is used in the honors latin class for junior class in high school. It must be excellent, the teacher is ultra sharp, one of the best you could question for. She knows what she’s doing, so this book must be exactly right for the class.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I haven’t worked conscientiously with it yet, but its purpose was to have it available for my bright grandson to help him know the derivation of so many words in the English and Latin-based languages. By the way, I reflect Mrs. Hogle (in Chicago) was a direct decendant of Caesar.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Excelentemente explicado, aunque yo creo que se necesita un profesor. Muy buena selección de textos. Por otro lado el libro me ha llegado en excelente estado.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5