(iv) The course is very long and takes forever to get through. Such general incomprehensibility of the grammar sections means most people will benefit from having another textbook on hand, though there are copious examples which do help. The Adler course does, however, have the following drawbacks: (i) there is very little classical Latin to work on the exercises are all in adapted Latin (ii) there are no longer passages (except at the very end of the book) so moving over to real latin will be a shock if Adler is all you know(iii) the grammar sections are largely incomprehensible and contain sentences like "After the auxiliary verbs.the noun or adjective of the predicate is in the nominative, when the quality denoted by it is regarded as already existing in the subject but when the quality is not present or missing, the infinitive following these verbs has a subject of its own in the accusative." and so on (p283).
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Second, its a lot more thorough than traditional grammars, and spends time on some of the less common constructions (for example there is a whole section detailing how to explain you are sick, another on the use of the word "usque", etc.) Third, I can listen in the car on the way to work. Three reasons: First, traditional grammars do not give you enough practice, and the Adler course has literally hundreds of exercises and lots of repetition, in a structured way. Since I have already been through it all once, you might ask why I am doing it all again with Adler. I bought this DVD after first going through the entire Cambridge Latin Course (Sidwell & Jones). Especially if you are in a Latin class, this will give you an edge over everyone else. However, specific vocabulary is pronounced which is good for the beginning student, and 'authentic' examples are provided in the syntax as the course advances.Īs a Latin teacher, I would recommend this course to guide students' beginning pronunciation. I thank the author for producing so many great lessons to aid in learning Latin!Īs readings from a textbook the Latin conversation examples are not at all "authentic". Overall, it is obvious that the author spent a great amount of time producing this course. You can read along with the textbook, or listen without it - the course is designed to be used without visual material being required. In the lessons the author is very thorough: he gives plentiful examples, explanations, and tastefully repeats them to aid in memorizing the content. With the DVDs, each lesson is carefully labelled and appears correctly in once album in your mp3 player, when the files are transferred so you should have no problems.
This course is not only for advanced Latin students- though it's easy to make that mistake looking at the Latinum podcast itself, where you have to carefully navigate the complicated site. This course has a large number of lessons (over 500 ? ).
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