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Learn Latin: The Book of the "Daily Telegraph" Q.E.D.Series (Greek & Latin language): The Book of the "Daily Telegraph" Q.E.D.Series (Greek & Latin language) | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Jones
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 7014
Media: Paperback
Pages: 176
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0715627570
Dewey Decimal Number: 420
EAN: 9780715627570
ASIN: 0715627570
Publication Date: January 1, 1998
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 Brilliant October 9, 2007
E. James (England)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I want to start by saying that i'm a language obsessive and have in total over 50 language books. This is the best out of all of them.
Starting with grammar rather than set phrases means that you progress incredibly fast without it seeming like a battle.
Buy it!
 bonus non optime May 3, 2007
Furio (Genova - Italy)
10 out of 16 found this review helpful
If you are reading this review you probably do not need me to convince you that Latin is not useless in our contemporary era of PC and Playstation and you will probably share my enthusiasm in greeting any serious attempt at diffusing the language.
Prof. Jones's is a very serious one, coming from a competent latinist, even if each and everyone of his explanations is intermingled with funny puns.
His goal is to stimulate his reader by providing a very basic grammar and authentic, interesting texts so as to lure him/her into loving the language before the necessary effort wipe out his/her enthusiasm.
Unfortunately he might have achieved this particular goal but he fails at the rest.
First, his approach is a traditional one: explanations - examples - exercises.
It is my firm opinion that if Latin is to survive as a school subject any beginner's course should handle the language as if it were a modern one, with a modern approach: lots of dialogues and pictures too. Grammar should be left for later.
There are pictures in this course - even if I do not like Mr Benoit style they are more useful than heaps of examples- but they are not enough.
Second the exercises are not nearly enough to memorise the language: unless the reader is so highly motivated as to translate each single sentence into Latin and back a couple of dozen times he/she will forget almost everything soon.
Things change if you have already had Latin at school and wish to refresh it: in this case this course will be fun and it will help you decide whether you really want to pick it up again.
Latin really made easy (comparatively!) September 18, 2006
Roman Clodia (London)
31 out of 31 found this review helpful
This is a brilliant little book that does exactly what is says: teaches you to read (and write) in Latin in easy and accessible steps.
Having said that, it's less than 2/3s of a GCSE and sets its own limits, so if you're serious about the language from an academic point of view then it's a great confidence-boosting introduction but is no replacement for a more serious course (such as Jones/Sidwell Reading Latin).
I have no background in Latin but need to learn it for my PhD and am starting a 'proper' course in October, but this was recommnded as a fun starter to get ahead of the game and I'm loving it.
Makes Latin accessible September 17, 2006
Marcus Horatius (Bucks)
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
Unlike the Jones & Sidwell "Reading Latin" textbooks, this is a much more accessible, chatty approach which serves up Grammar and syntax in small, easily digestible nuggets -- though most of it still based on the assumption that your reason for learning Latin is to read the literary works of Ancient Rome. If this isn't quite for you, you might try "ANNUS HORRIBILIS: Latin for Everyday Life" (Tempus Publishing), which is based around Latin that you might actually encounter 'out there' in the real world: mottoes, phrases, inscriptions, epitaths etc.
The best way to learn a language for an adult October 8, 2001
57 out of 61 found this review helpful
Funny, erudite, useful - this book is just as good as Jones's "Learn Ancient Greek". In just a little while you too can be reading Catullus and the Vulgate Bible.
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