#Latin textbooks

[virromanus]

Recommended Latin Textbooks and Readers for Beginners and Intermediate Learners

As a Latin learner, I have compiled a list of Latin textbooks and readers, which I'd recommend, for beginners and intermediate students:

For Beginners:

Familia Romana (Lingua Latina Book 1) - Uses the natural method of language acquisition, presenting Latin vocabulary and grammar without any English translations​​.

Complete Latin Beginner to Intermediate Book and Audio Course by Gavin Betts - Offers a comprehensive approach to reading, writing, speaking, and understanding Latin​​.

A Little Latin Reader by Prof Mary C. English - Ideal for undergraduate courses, covering a wide range of grammatical constructions with unadapted passages from Classical authors​​.

Latinitium’s Pugio Bruti: A Crime Story in Easy Latin - Designed to help beginners memorize 350 words through natural repetition, presented in story format​​.

For Intermediate Learners:

Cambridge Intermediate Latin Readers - Focuses on genuine, unsimplified Latin prose and poetry with helpful introductions, detailed notes, and full vocabularies​​. Read Ovid & Virgil.

Wheelock's Latin Reader (7th Edition) - A sequel to Wheelock's Latin, ideal for intermediate-level Latin courses, featuring classical, medieval, and late Latin writers​​.

Via Perīculōsa - Intended for beginning/intermediate students, featuring 88 unique words and action occurring in real places across the Roman Empire​​.

Reading Latin: Text and Vocabulary by Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell - Designed for those transitioning from beginner to intermediate levels, this book focuses on authentic Latin texts, offering a good mix of prose and poetry along with comprehensive vocabulary lists.

These textbooks and readers provide a range of methodologies and content, from the natural method without English translations to comprehensive courses and stories designed to build vocabulary and understanding of Latin through natural repetition and contextual learning.

Do suggest more reading or listening materials if you have. Let's grow this list to help those who wants to get started in learning Latin.

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[cicerosuggests]

#latin #latin textbooks #latin memes #classics #ancient history #classical memes #classics memes #ancient languages #Wheelock #wheelock's #ecce romani

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

(ps very terribly sorry about posting a busted version of this earlier. Whoops)

#ultimate obscure blorbo #polls #round 1 #Grovyle (Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers) #Grumio (Cambridge Latin textbooks)

[mychlapci]

no fucking way ??

#the latin textbook is the secret transformers book #this joke would be more palatable if the translations were to english. but this way you at least know i take school seriously #transformers

[chiropteracupola]

be near to me...

[flintlock fortress is, as always, a collaboration with @dxppercxdxver]

#em draws stuff #flintlock fortress #team fortress 2 #there was a request for these two to kiss. and. well. they do that. #the reference for this particular kiss is a mumford and sons music video from 2013 (which gives you an idea of my taste at this time) #and! and! that poem is in fact taken from the vocabulary section of my latin textbook #everybody say thank you to chapter fourteen of the second edition of keller & russell's yale university learn to read latin! #('so emmothy what are you up to these days in midwestcollege classics studies?' 'perfectly sensible stuff yes yes') #likenesses Not great on this one (those two have certainly got Something going on with their faces that I cannot capture) #on-model Who. certainly not me. #but I am full of frame-it-on-the-wall levels of pride for this drawing!

[aztrosist666]

i hope that the user formerly known as honex-industries knows that their 6 note flop post has been screenshotted, printed out, and taped to the door of my latin classroom

#in searching for this post i discovered that my latin textbook has. a fandom? #anyway what do you guys think about salvius #cambridge latin course #🐋

[tinynebula]

girl where do you expect Latinos to be born and raised then if it's not a Latinoamerican country??? mars??????

#SHE'S AFRO LATINA SHE'S THE TEXTBOOK DEFINITION OF AN AFRO LATINE

[tauruswiftie]

so im a CS grad student but i applied to this program that lets me take a language course basically for free even tho it's not strictly for my degree and i got in!!! so now im in latin 2 and i'm having sm fun!!! :)))))

#i think i actually did a decent job of self-studying since i didn't take latin 1 #but i spent the last 4 months working out of a textbook putting in like ~8 hours a week (at least) lol #also (fingers crossed) it doesn't seem like a super competitive thing so im hoping i can get into latin 3&4 next year haha

[lonesomedotmp3]

SPEAKING OF i had never felt so talked down to when someone mentioned they did gcse latin and i was like omg me too!!! and he was like oh what private school did you go to? and when i told him i didn't go to a private school he looked so affronted and baffled and asked why i would even study latin if i went to public school... kill yourself?

#i forget not everyone just had insane teacher who ran it out of his own pocket #and in fact the majority of the people who studied latin are the people we all hated #because we were doing the same exams but they had the advantages of actually studying it IN school more than once a week #and had private tutors or whatever... #if you didn't do for two hours afterschool with an insane guy using stolen textbooks in a group of maybe twelve people #you're nothing to me... #and then in AS latin it was just three of us... our secret history swag perhaps

[iampresent]

Hey. Hey you. C’mere! I have something wonderful to tell you about the  language of Latin, and specifically how it was taught in the Cambridge Elevate Latin textbook.  

Ready?

Ok so in Latin, the diminutive of any word ends in -ulus.  Basically it just adds the word “little” behind the noun.  Best example of this? “homo” means “man/person” (the species, not the gender, that’s “vir”) in Latin. “homunculus” means “little man” in Latin. Which is just a wonderful fact in and of itself. Like c’mon that’s so fun to say. You’re a homunculus. no YOU’RE a homunculus. everyone here is a homunculus. homunculus homunculus homunculus.

But that’s not the best part. Not by a long shot.

So, it’s kinda hard to teach a dead language. You can’t do a lot of conversational skills and learning, because there aren’t a ton of sources to explain how the language was spoken casually. Now, you could just make them read all the super famous Latin texts we have, but those do have a pretty high level of advancement and also happen to be about as exciting to your average high schooler as “explain your answer” math problems.

So, what is a classics course that wants to make absolutely stupendous amounts of money to do??

Well, if you’re the Cambridge Elevate Latin Course, you create one long storyline over the course of four books which goes from “astonishingly heart wrenching familial tragedy” to “surprisingly xenophobic narrative of life on the streets of Alexandria” to “extremely out-of-pocket political intrigue” to “telenovela” faster than you can say “Sed Caecilius non respondit”. None of these stories are particularly well written, but they are much more intense than you would expect of a language textbook for middle and high schoolers.

anyway, cut to my 10th grade Latin class, right as we were beginning the “political intrigue but everyone is a complete dumbass” section of the course. And one of the grammar concepts for that stage was diminutives.  As I hope I’ve already established, the storyline was completely fucking batshit insane. We were used to it. We could handle absurdity, my class could. We reveled in it. So there we were, reading about the British chieftain A who crashed the king’s dinner party with a *partially* tamed bear, in order to kill/maim/severely embarrass British chieftain B, because B had had the audacity to beat A in a boat race. In my opinion, we were taking it with relatively straight faces, all things considered.

But when British Chieftain B called A “homunculus”? 

We lost it. We completely, absolutely LOST. IT. It was one of the best moments of my life.

Anyway, my teacher is switching her freshmen onto a different textbook next year, for SOME REASON, which I frankly think is pretty swagless of her.

#also there is this historically documented dude named Gaius Salvius Liberalis #who they just turned into like. the devil incarnate. #FOR NO REASON #we don't know anything about this dude #but not a day in the textbook goes by without him trying to kill somebody it's insane #anyway #this has been #"Unnecessarily Long Tangents With iampresent #tune in next time for #Myropnous #the short king #clc #cambridge latin course

[thoughts-of-caly]

look i like latin but if virgil says pius aeneas one more time i swear i am going to brutus is an honorable man this book into a wall

#random thoughts #seriously though get a new epithet dude #latin language #virgil's aeneid #and yes i know it's a poem but i have a textbook that's a third notes and a third appendices so it's basically a book

[pureheroine2013]

René-Antoine Houasse; Morpheus awakening as Iris draws near (1688)

#found in my latin textbook <3 reading about ceyx and alcyone now #art #classics

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

#ultimate obscure blorbo #polls #round 2 #Grumio (Cambridge Latin textbooks) #Guang Tou Qiang (Boonie Bears)

[cinematic-literature]

L'amica geniale S01E03 (Le metamorfosi)

Book title: Sermo Latinus (1955) by G. Sarro, A. Davico Grifoni, G. Barone

#fictitious books #fictitious books in tv shows #l'amica geniale #le metamorfosi #sermo latinus #latin textbook #l'amica geniale season 1 #my brilliant friend #my brilliant friend season 1

[the-casbah-way]

i finally managed to translate my first hieroglyph inscription correctly on my own everyone cheer and clap and kiss me with tongue

#so. it turns out i find hieroglyphs very hard. i got too cocky because i found ancient greek and latin so easy to pick up #i have no idea why i thought this wouldn't be as hard as it is. #but. i'm getting there. very very slowly because i'm learning this on my own via textbooks not in my native language #but. i'm getting there

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

only good thing abt the vous situation is that it lets me experience tecteun calling 13 the child that im 100% convinced she actually would bc shes the only one who uses tu for her

#what language do you think theyre actually speaking #bc like on top of all the other um disconcerting stuff abt the whole situation on that spaceship for 13 #iamgine walking into that tree room and refinding that woman there and then she starts talking to you in like. this ancient gallifreyan #like old high gallifreyan hours #a language you only kinda learnt at school a couple millennia ago #im a big believer of the doctor and the master speaking gallifreyan when theyre alone i have fun with that in fic #(i dont think they speak entirely the same native language i think gallifryan is a diglossia but not the point) #but neither of them Speak old high like thats a dead language #i think 13 would drop into gallifreyan after opening in english #'hello im the doctor' in you know good old sheffield english #and then tecteun responds with 'i know' but in like....fucking latin #latin is probably not the best analogy but i dont know the history of english #old english i gues but we dont really learn that in school #anyway imagine how disconcerting #and i imagine she'd switch to gallifreyan sure but like. her modern mountain gallifreyan from lungbarrow right? #that vs tecteuns fucking classical dead textbook gallifreyan #or thats how it would feel to the doctor bc tecteun is pre-timelord. this is just her language #or....her language would be what would later become old high #so maybe she speaks to her Child as she used to actual eons ago #and to the doctor the closest this sounds like is old high gallifreyan bc she doesnt remember this language any more than tecteuns eyes #it's close-enough-sorta-dead-gallifreyan-??? #so she switches to the closest shes got. which is just. lungbarrowian #tecteun trying to rewrite history and the doctor not-entirely-on-purpose re-establishing the one she has/knows/remembers #holding on to her actual history #which tecteun tries to rewrite/unwrite/dig out from under known history with this old old gallifreyan #anyway. more language thoughts of this evening