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Cambridge Latin Course Unit 1 Student's book North American edition (North American Cambridge Latin Course) By North American Cambridge Classics Project ( Cambridge University Press )
Release Date: 1988-01-29
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The Cambridge Latin Course is a well-established introductory program in four Units, originally developed by the Cambridge School Classics Project. Under the sponsorship of the North American Cambridge Classics Project, Unit 1 now has been fully revised and adapted for use in the United States and Canada. This proven approach includes a stimulating, continuous storyline, grammatical development and cultural information carefully woven throughout the text, a complete Language Information section--now bound into the students' volume-- and, for the first time, color photographs that illustrate the Roman world. Also available are a thorough Teacher's Manual, a workbook, and cassette tapes. This Third Edition is wholly compatible with the existing Second Edition.
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 please realize now how counterproductive this is!
To add to the Teacher from New York, there are additional difficulties in the teaching of this book. True, there are no true grammar explanations, but that can be supplemented, as most texts do demand. One insurmountable issue (and the one that killed this course for me) is that the grammatical forms introduced follow no logical progression. To introduce perfect passive participles before the concept of passive verbs is difficult, but to compound that by including deponent perfect active participles?? Students at this point have no ability to understand what a deponent verb is, ergo they must just add this to the list of unfathomable "things" to memorize, without understanding HOW anything works. The books also do not teach the future tense until the end of the third book, thereby requiring teachers to bounce back and forth from verb principal part to principal part as Cambridge haphazardly introduces tenses, seemingly on a whim.
As any high school teacher who is part of a world language program has said time and time again, "we just cannot teach this like a modern language." I am absolutely open to the newer reading method, but Oxford does a much better job at reading and grammar fluency than this does. Teachers should not allow themselves to be seduced by the sheer poundage of supplementary materials that accompany this course; much of it is pedagogically useless and serves only the purpose of lulling one into becoming a "worksheet teacher."
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 Very practical!
The cambridge Latin course unit 1 is not only very practical but equally academic.It is well ilustrated too.I t is as helpful in classical history. I am enjoying it so much...
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 Good stuff
Used this book in high school, and although they are old, Cambridge is the best Latin tool you can have.
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Secondary school textbook ( sjj17 )
I used this course for four years when I was at secondary school and found it to be excellent. The vocabulary is slowly introduced so that instead of looking at a text and seeing a jumble of letters, like I did with French and German, you can understand most of it and don't need to be looking at the vocabulary lists all of the time. The cultural parts are very interesting and link well with what you are studying and the story flows throughout the course so that you are interested to find out what happens next. Although the grammar isnt forced into you, you do learn it by using it, which I think is the easiest and the best way. But I wouldn't suggest using this course without a teacher - mine was brilliant.
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A gem . . . ( fracturedfalcon )
This is the series we used when I learned Latin in high school. It is the best language text I have ever read, and I have a soft spot for it in my heart. Many traditional Latin teachers are uncomfortable with the premise of the series: that Latin can be learned intuitively. Phinney wanted students to learn the grammar without effort, and the book is amazingly effective in its mission. This book begins with baby Latin that it is simple enough to understand, but no one ever wrote in Latin that way. Then each unit increases the complexity of the passages. In Unit IV, historic Latin texts are introduced. The greatest problem with the series occurs in the transition between Unit III and Unit IV. You must learn the declensions, etc. in tabular form before you can truly parse historic Latin, and parsing is what ensures an accurate translation. Fortunately, you shouldn't have any problem doing this, because the tables will make perfect sense to you due to the Phinney effect. All you should be doing is formally naming what you already knew. (As one reader points out, all this formal stuff is in the back of each book, too.) If you are worried, I would suggest buying Phinney's Guide to Latin Grammar. It is meant to be used with this series from day one, and it has all the hardcore grammar you could desire.
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