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French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its progeny and it provides the international vocabulary of law and life science.

No known language, including English - itself enriched by Latin words and phrases - has achieved such success and longevity. Tore Janson tells its history from origins to present. Brilliantly conceived and written with the same light touch as his bestselling history of languages, A Natural History of Latin is a masterpiece of adroit synthesis.

The author charts the expansion of Latin in the classical world, its renewed importance in the Middle Ages, and its survival into modern times. He shows how spoken and written Latin evolved in different places and its central role in European history and culture. He ends with a concise Latin grammar and lists of Latin words and phrases still in common use. Considered elitist andirrelevant in the second half of the twentieth century and often even banned from schools, Latin is now enjoying a huge revival of interest across Europe, the UK, and the USA.

Tore Janson offers persuasive arguments for its value and gives direct access to its fascinating worlds, past and present. Beginning in Rome around BC Latin became the language of the civilized world and remained so for over two millennia.

French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its progeny and it still provides the international vocabulary of law and life science. Tore Janson tells its history from origins to the present. Brilliantly conceived and written with the same light touch as Speak, his bestselling history of languages, A Natural History of Latin is a masterpiece of adroit synthesis.

The author charts the expansion in the classical world, its renewed importance in the Middle Ages, and its survival into modern times. He shows its central role in European history and culture and, by judicious quotation of phrases and texts, describes how spoken and written Latin changed and evolved differently in different places.

He ends with a summary of Latin grammar and lists of Latin words and of phrases still in common use. Download eBook. Get BOOK. Author : Peter V. Accompanies the bestselling Latin course, designed for students learning Latin on their own or with limited access to a teacher.

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A Comprehensive Introduction to the Mari Language. Jump to Page. Search inside document. Jones and Keith C. Latin nguage-Seliaeruction, 2, Latin languageReider 1. Sidvel, Keith C. Tie, g7H. It is designed for two sorts of reader: those who are learning Latin rapidly and intensively, and those who are learning Latin on their own or with only limited access to a teacher.

First, we believe it is important that there should be times when learners are out there on their own.

Then again, teachers working with the book need some material whica they know students cannot simply lift from this answer book.

These test only what should have already been learned, and will provide compelling evidence of whether it has been or not. We recommend that those who are leaning by themselves try to find someone who will correct these exercises. These reinforce what should have been learned itom the regulat exer cises.

If teachers need to set them, then they also need to know that the answers are not easily available to students, Again, those who are learning alone will find it advissble to have u teacher check their answers to these exercises, if they have found it neces- sory to embark on them in order to reinforce earlier work. Second, the translations of the Text intentionally vary in style, from the absolutely literal with English words in Latin word-order in Sections r and 4 to the moderately colloquial.

The purpose of these extremes is to force constant attention on the Latin. The lit- eral, Latin-order translations, almost gibberish in English, achieve. Amanda Casarin.