An Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin by Peter V. Jones (PDF)

Description

Reading Latin, written by Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell and published by Cambridge University Press in 1986, is a Latin course designed to help mature beginners read Latin fluently and intelligently. This Independent Study Guide is intended for students who are using the course on their own or with only limited access to a teacher. It contains notes on the Latin texts that appear in the Reading Latin Text volume, translations of all the texts, and answers to the exercises in the Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises volume.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: Book Description A guide for students using the Reading Latin course on their own.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I enjoy studying by myself – I am in my 80’s – and can be patient, taking my time, for there is no pressure to achieve an ‘End’ or objective. There is a simple progression from one exercise to another which makes learning easy. Words do not adequately express my pleasure.

⭐This book gives ad verbatim translations of the ‘Reading Latin’ passages. The reader’s translation syntax is the development of modern’s scholar understanding of today’s world. This book is a must companion for autodidactic and modern classroom students. Read a passage. Think about its Latin grammar, i.e., cases, gender, number and parts of speech. Read the authors’. Than, make your artistic one. This book gives you the chance to be brilliant.Leo

⭐I’ve reviewed the Grammar textbook and Reading ‘Text’ book separately. Let me just say that IF you are going to buy Jones and Sidwell, then get this Study Guide. But consider learning Latin with another set of books entirely.

⭐This book is not worth your time or money! I was expecting it to contain the translations in full (for the Reading Latin “Text” book), however that’s not the case at all. All you get are hints to help you through the text but that’s as far as it goes.It contains SOME of the answers to the exercises from the GVE book but not all.Definitely not worth buying in my opinion.

⭐Excellent quality 🙂 This book provides a thorough approach to learning Latin for beginners and the more advanced student. Simple and effective 😀 Really recommended it to fellow students.

⭐An excellent way to entice the curious to study How to translate. A fine choice

⭐Too old. This is the old edition and doesn’t match the new version at all. Totally worthless.

⭐By lots of repetition of the vocabulary, this set of three books succeed in strengthening the reading process.

⭐As someone who managed to get 80% at ‘O’ level and is starting to relearn Latin some 59 years later, I’ve decided to concentrate on the “Reading Latin” set of books [Reading Latin: Text and Vocabulary, ~:Grammar and Exercises, & ~: An Independent Study Guide]. I am finding the structure, methodology, and the teaching material to be useful, practical and effective, and also interesting, for studying at home without a tutor. The Independent Study Guide is essential in this respect, though probably not necessary for anyone who can be supported by the aid of a tutor.The Kindle editions are different from the usual Kindle edition free format, in that they are similar to a PDF document in that the page contents and layout are maintained page by page. This makes it most suitable to be read on a large screen attached to a PC or Mac using the appropriate Kindle app. However, only one page is displayable at a time with the Kindle app [something that perhaps ought to be addressed by Amazon] and so the effect of a layout which is designed to show related material, such as running vocabulary, on the facing page is lost. In my opinion, it is also preferable to use the paperback editions rather than the Kindle editions, simply because one is likely to be spending a fair amount of time swapping between the three books as you progress through the material. So best studied at a large desk or table with the 3 books in front of you and a paper pad for working through the exercises.Wheelock’s Latin [7th ed] is an alternative one-volume course which is also used in university courses and in local adult education courses. For me, Wheelock’s is useful as a backup [again much preferable in paperback printed format, as the fonts used in the Kindle are the wrong size and lose vital accent marks which are essential for learning the pronunciation and syllabic stress of the words. Though, there are recorded pronunciation examples for exercises and material through the whole book which are available free on the web site associated with the Wheelock’s Latin course.One of the advantages of the Reading Latin course is that it is extended by the supplementary books: Reading Virgil, Reading Ovid, and Reading Medieval Latin which deal in depths with reading and understanding the original Latin, its stylistics, poetics and rhetoric in The Aeneid, Metamorphoses, and medieval religious and scholarly texts and documents.Through starting this Reading Latin course, I find I am already able to understand quotations of material in introductions and guides to the works of Roman authors and Latin literature.

⭐These are good books for learning latin on your own, especially if you are re-learning from years past. Latin is hard, so you can’t really complain if the books are hard. Graft and more graft is required.The biggest issue for me is the binding wont let you lie the books open easily. The older editions had more expensive stitched binding, which would lie open better. You will be flipping between all three volumes (text, grammer, and self-study), so this is a pain.Beware the “Kindle” ebooks too – Amazon don’t like you having more than one ebook open at a time or on multiple devices at once, and you need all three open in front of you.Also – hurrah. Declensions listed in the “correct” order and long vowels also correctly indicated (even in the e-books)!

⭐I bought the ‘Reading Latin’ and Reading Latin – Text’ as specified for Latin course I started this Autumn. At the time I didn’t realise there was this 3rd book in the set. I am finding it helpful to check my work between weekly classes. Note that it doesn’t provide the answers to optional questions and exercises.

⭐I came to this course after completing the (absolutely wonderful) Reading Greek course, and in fact I chose it because it follows the same pattern and methodology which worked so well for me while learning Greek.First of all, those who are planning to use the course without a class or teacher should note the following from the preface:”The ‘Reading/Test exercises’ at the end of each grammatical section have NOT been translated… We recommend that those who are learning by themselves try to find someone who will correct these exercises. The exercises marked ‘optional’ have not been provided with a key either.”A bit odd that a course that’s supposed to be suitable for teaching oneself Latin suggests that you find a teacher, instead of providing a full key to the exercises…Another annoyance:One of the things which made the Greek course even more of a pleasure was the addition of a fourth book, The World Of Athens. In the Study Guide, each section of the course was carefully keyed to the relevant paragraphs in World of Athens, and this meant that at the same time as learning the language, one also learned about Greek history and culture in small, bite-sized pieces – all of which were relevant to the text being studied.When I saw that Reading Latin included a World of Rome book, I was delighted… until I saw that there are NO references to the book at all in this study guide. This was a HUGE disappointment, and leaves the feeling that the authors were in too much of a hurry, or couldn’t be bothered, to include this useful feature.It’s true that World of Rome does include a brief appendix which claims to cross-reference the text with the Reading Latin course, but in fact this is next to useless.In that appendix, the lessons are not keyed to the relevant paragraphs in the text, but (rather lazily) to a key word, such as ‘Marriage’ or ‘Comedy’, with a suggestion that you just look up the relevant word in “The general index, the topographical index and index of personal names, the index and glossary of Latin words, and (in the case of writers) also appendix 2″In practice, trying to follow this advice quickly becomes so tedious and wearisome that I can’t imagine anyone sticking with it for long.It’s a great shame that the Independent Study guide doesn’t address the issue properly. Perhaps some later edition will remedy this, or perhaps some enterprising person will publish a proper cross-index to World of Rome. As things stand, this volume essentially leaves World of Rome irrelevant to the Reading Latin course.In short, I very much regret the cash I’ve spent on the four books of this course, and wish I’d looked elsewhere. It really is very inferior to the Greek course.

⭐It’s making Latin much more accessible than it was at school.

Keywords

Free Download An Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin in PDF format
An Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin PDF Free Download
Download An Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin 2001 PDF Free
An Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin 2001 PDF Free Download
Download An Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin PDF
Free Download Ebook An Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin