Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Latin

The goal of Forum is to enable students to speak Latin as a living language. Studies have shown that unless one speaks, reading fluency becomes difficult to attain. Because it teaches students to speak Latin, Forum prepares them to read without the use of dictionary or translation, and to read as fluently as one might read in any modern language.

Forum applies to Latin the teaching methods commonly used for modern language acquisition: total oral immersion, total physical response (TPR), role-playing games, gradual complexity of dialogues and stories, and...

Ferdinand Gregorovius: Lucrezia Borgia

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2017

Durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

• Erstdruck: Stuttgart, Cotta, 1874

Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger

Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion

Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Bartolomeo Veneto, Idealbildnis einer Kurtisane als Flora, um 1520

Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

Acta Muciorum is a second-year Latin reader for students who have completed A New Latin Primer, Cornelia, and Carolus et Maria. It is classical in flavor and well-suited as a bridge between the first-year readers in the series and Caesar. The first forty chapters contain a historical-fiction narrative about the famous Roman family, the Mucii, the next twelve chapters are simplified Caesar, and the final eight consist of unadapted Caesar. Acta Muciorum contains 1497 unique vocabulary words; of these, 537 are used in the previous books in the...

A New Latin Primer is the first in a series of Latin readers for beginners. The primer, as well as the books that follow (Cornelia, Carolus et Maria, and Acta Muciorum) were ingeniously devised to teach students to read Latin not via drills and the rote memorization of grammar rules, but through a simple, charming story that slowly increases in complexity by the end of the book. A New Latin Primer contains 554 unique vocabulary words which are understandable in context and repeated in successive chapters. The narrative is divided into 40 short...