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Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Latin

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ISBN-10: 0028639227

ISBN-13: 9780028639222

Edition: 2000

Authors: Natalie Harwood

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Latin is widely regarded as a difficult language, an undeserved reputation. Natalie Harwood's guide to learning the language is an entertaining alternative to stuffy standard texts based upon the author's 40 years of teaching experience.
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/14/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 7.36" wide x 9.09" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.452

Frequently Asked Questions
Why Learn Latin?
Latin--the Bad Boy of Foreign Languages
Your Latin Teacher Was Tough
Dead but Not Forgotten
Alumneye or Alumnee?
Latin Words You Already Know
What Exactly Is Latin?
Digging Up Your Indo-European Roots
A Brief History of Rome
Late Latin
More Latin Words You Already Know
What's in a Word?
People, Places, and Things
First-Declension Feminine Nouns
Living Things and Their Parts
Places and Inanimate Things
The Case of the Life of an Oyster
Second-Declension Masculine and Neuter Nouns
Living Things and Their Parts--Masculine Nouns
Places and Things--Masculine Nouns
Places and Things--Neuter Nouns
A Quick Summary
Mouse, Mice; House, Hice? Plurals
Declensions--It's All Downhill from Here!
Word Order--the Oyster Elephant's or the Elephant's Oyster?
And ... Conjunctions!
What's in a Name? More Nouns
Third-Declension Nouns
The Third Declension, the I of the Storm
The Roman Family and Patria Potestas
Fourth and Fifth Declension and "That's All, Folks"
Names for Men and Those Other People
Let's Have Some Action!
Words to Be Memorized
Really Active Verbs
Slightly More Sedentary Verbs
Couch Potato Verbs
Conjugations, or the Perfect Marriage
It's Happening Now!
To Be or Not To Be Able
The Goose Is Cooked
Action Without an Ending--Verbals
To Be or Not To Be: Infinitives
First-Conjugation Verbs
Second-Conjugation Infinitives
Third-Conjugation Infinitives
Third io and Fourth-Conjugation Infinitives
Seeing Is Believing
Things That Must Be Seen--the Passive Periphrastic
Reviewing Verbals
The Good and the Bad--Adjectives and Accusatives
More Words You Know Already
No-Brainer Adjectives
Harder-to-Remember Adjectives
Irregular Adjectives
The Most Agreeable Words
The Goods on Adjectives as Nouns
Good, Gooder, Goodest--Degrees of Comparison
I Object! The Accusative Case
How's That? Questions
Taking the Place of Nouns--Pronouns
Words You Should Know Yourself
First- and Second-Person Pronouns and Adjectives
This, That, and Whatever--Third-Person Pronouns and Demonstratives
Reflecting: Reflexive Pronouns
You Can Go Now!
Where? When? How Many?
Adverbs
Easy Adverbs
When and Where Adverbs
Tell-Me-How Adverbs
Adverbs from Adjectives
Ten Little Carthaginians--Numbers
A.U.C., B.C., A.D., and B.C.E.--the Roman Calendar
At Carthage--the Locative Case
The Last of the Cases
The Dative Case
The Ablative Case
Expanding the Time Frame--Past and Future Tenses
The Principal Parts of Verbs
Verbs with Easy Third Principal Parts
Verbs with Slightly Changed Third Principal Parts
Verbs with Principal Parts You Really Need to Know
It's an Imperfect World
What's in Your Future?
The Perfect Tenses, Active and Passive
The Imperative--a Commanding Lead
Study Tips
Expressing Yourself in Latin
Locutiones--Phrases
Words Without Which You Cannot Do
In the Blink of an Eye--Coming or Going?
Prepositions as Prefixes--Preposterous!
Hey! Interjections!
Articuli--Clauses
Absolutely Necessary Words
Time for Temporal and Causal Clauses
The Clause of Much Confusion--Ablative Absolute
Or ... Deponent Verbs
More Deponent Verbs
The Theory of Relative Clauses
Words That Must Be Learned
Recognizing Your Relatives
Whoosier Relative Pronoun?
Indefinites, Intensives, Interrogatives ... Whatever
Closing In on Clauses
Words to Learn in Order to Be Educated
Subjunctive Mood
Subordinate Conjunctions
Clauses with a Purpose
Clauses with a Result
Clauses of Fear
When? Why? What If? Clauses
Simple and Not-So-Simple Sentences
I Will Learn These Words
Simple Sentences--I can learn Latin
Interrogative Sentences: Can I learn Latin?
Complex Sentences: Although I am a complete idiot, I can learn Latin
Compound Sentences and Beyond
More Words to Learn and Memorize
Volo, Velle, Volui
Nolo, Nolle, Nolui
Compound Sentences
Compound-Complex Sentences
Indirect Statements
Indirect Questions
Indirect Commands
Reading Latin--Selections from Ancient Authors
Selections from Republican Rome
Vita Terenti (The Life of Terence)
Caesar: More Than Just a Salad
Vita Ciceronis (The Life of Cicero)
Dining Room Scene
My Sister-in-Law!
My House!
Selections from Vitruvius et al.
Vita Vitruivi
Vita Titi Livi
Vita Plini Secundi
How to Catch an Elephant
The Sad Fate of Oysters
Fishponds and Showers
Look, Ma! I'm Reading Latin!
Sentences You Can Read and a Review of Cases
More Sentences and Review of Verb Usage
More Sentences and Hints for Translating
Stories to Read in Latin
Pyrrha et Deucalion
Midas
Psalmus Davidis XXIII
Psalmus pro gratiarum actione C
Coping with Latin in the Modern World
Legal Latin
Words to Learn or Learn Again
Legal Latin Terms and What They Mean
Latin in Your Law School Papers
Sayings and Quotations About the Law
Ancient Roman Law
Medical and Scientific Latin
Rx for Understanding Your Doctor
Reading Those Prescriptions
Reading Those Signs at the Zoo--Flora and Fauna
The Medical World of the Romans
Late Latin and Church Latin
Veba Sancta: Words of the Church Fathers
St. Augustine's Confessions
Verba Sancta: Words of the Church
Music, Sacred and Profane
Live! From Ancient Rome!
Latin in the Federal Government
State Mottoes
University Mottoes
Quotations on Human Failings
Quotations on Human Virtues
Words to Live By
Snappy Comebacks
Appendixes
Vocabulary List
Grammar Summary
Test Your Skills--Latin Exams
Answer Keys
Index