5 comments about Minimus Pupil's Book: Starting out in Latin (Minimus).

1. I'm teaching Latin to my eight year old daughter and her eight year old friend. I'm not used to teaching this age group, but this book is making it pretty easy. They enjoy the comics, especially if I have them act them out, and they remember the lines afterward; they don't even mind the vocabulary drills. The only real "work" on my part is writing one-two page Latin stories or mini-histories so they can get some practice translating and reading Latin prose.



2. I love this whole series. I use it in homeschooling my kids. Latin, while not used in communication, helps in grammar and spelling. I recommend this to any educator.



3. I purchased this book and the audio cd to go with it based on reviews I read. I was led to believe my children and I would enjoy the cartooning and listening, but it didn't happen. The book was far too complicated and the cd did not follow the book at all. Yes we were listening to Latin, but we had no idea what it was saying which made it really boring. I have sent both items back and am hoping to get my hard earned money back.



4. I spent years studying Latin and wanted to introduce my children, who are 5 and 7, to the language. Minimus (book and cd) has my children talking to each other in Latin in less time than it took me to learn those first two declensions and first two conjugations all those years ago by the more traditional methods!!! -Another benefit of the book is that it illustrates parts of speech in a clear, simple,and fun manner.



5. This fun book couldn't be a more outstanding tool for teaching your kids Latin. It starts with a comic-strip style story often narrated by the mouse Minimus. The comic uses a lot of repetition to help the kids retain words. Then the chapter continues with vocabulary and grammer which ties in closely with the comic. Simplified Roman mythology, bits history and culture are slowly introduced throughout the book ranging from Hadrian's Wall to the tale of Medusa. Stories keep it fun and upbeat, and the kids often forget they are learning.
   
   I was surprised to find how much I enjoyed this book alongside my kids. The characters are based on an actual family whose house is being unearthed in the ruins of the city Vindolanda in Britain. I also appreciate the secular nature of this book; most Latin books for homeschoolers are published with a strong Catholic focus and seem barren of history and culture. This book discusses treatment of slaves and women, Roman gods, the Roman military and its invasion of Britain, food, bath and travel. The book has so much to offer; hopefully my kids won't catch me cheating and reading ahead.

5 comments about Latin for Dummies.

1. I need to learn both Spanish and French. Within a year I need to know just enough to get by. I felt that the task was a little high. A friend that speaks 9 languages made a suggest. Learn Latin first because it is the root of Spanish, French and English.
   I have gone through the entire Latin course and I am now on to Spanish. Gee, am I glad I did the Latin first. My friend was right. I had tried to learn Spanish before and I was lost. By learning some Latin learning Spanish is now much easier.
   I did the Rosetta Stone and read this book on the side. The two together make a great combination.



2. This is not the book you are going to learn latin from. If you are in for that kind of material you had better try Teach Yourself Beginner's Latin Audiopackage if you are a beginner who would also like to listen to a good approximation of the classical pronunciation, or Latin Via Ovid: A First Course Second Edition, if you are beginner but more ambitious, let's say your purpose is to read Harry Potter in Latin (Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Latin Edition).
   
   But back to this book, which is a kind of collage of the Latin language: it lists the different areas of life where you can actually meet Latin words and expressions, helps you with cultural background, Latin jokes and short dialogues and yes, gives some elements of the language. To sum it up, a delicious side dish for learners of Latin or a cheese-board for those who are simply interested in classical education after a good meal.



3. The For Dummies series has been riding on its laurels a bit too long. Back in the days of MS-DOS and Windows 3.1, the Dummies series was innovative and really good. I guess the marketers decided to branch out and attempt to apply the same model to hundreds of other fields. The Dummies schtick is nothing but a comedy overlay to an existing academic model that is confusing to start with.
   
   Latin For Dummies fails because they take the same ponderous academic teaching model and spin it with silly and trite text. They don't even try to get away from the grammarian's non-intuitive inside language of dative, declension, genitive, infinitive, conjugation, etc. Words that also must be mastered in order to slog through the same tired obfuscated academic approach to Latin that made our grandparents hate Latin when they were kids.
   
   The For Dummies series fails in the same way with Calculus but, that's for another review!



4. Very simply laid out and it is easy to look things up in the book. We will be using it for a foundation for homeschooling this year.



5. What an awful intro to Latin. An error-filled hodgepodge slapped together by three pretenders. Readers will spend a long time unlearning the errata in this flimflam.

5 comments about 38 Latin Stories Designed to Accompany Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin.

1. The "38 Stories" in the book, edited to form a progression in difficulty, are an excellent introduction to reading actual Latin authors. The most frustrating time in a Latin student's course of study may be this transition from memorizing grammatical forms to applying this knowledge in reading Latin. The stories are fairly short, so that students will not get bored by content, exposing them to many different styles of writing in a shorter period of time.

   The passages chosen are also from famous authors' works, giving students a sense of satisfaction that they are now able to read the work of those authors about which they have heard much reference. Formatted like the more difficult Latin works, with notes and vocabulary facing the page, "38 Latin Stories" eases students into this style of study, better preparing them for reading works of Cicero, Vergil, Horace, and others. Moreover, this book does not need to be used in conjunction with Wheelock's Latin. Personally, I used this text after the study of grammar and before delving into Cicero's Catilinarian orations. Even just taking selected passages from the 38 stories is an excellent introduction to reading Latin through reinforcement of grammatical concepts.




2. Why does anyone want to learn Latin? Because they want to be able to read things in Latin: State Mottoes, those funny sayings on money, and the works of Roman authors. This book gives you the opportunity to read stories written in Latin after you have finished chapter 3 of Wheelock's Latin, allowing you to both test what you have learned, and to do what you really want to do: read Latin.



3. Latin is known to all as a difficult language to learn, and difficult it is, specially due to its synthetic language character, contrary to the character analytic of the modern English language, which, coming from the Germanic family of languages, in its evolution stripped itself from many synthetic features, what adds difficulty to every student of Latin who speaks English as its mother tongue. Due also to the common Indo-european heritage both languages have, we could call Latin an Uncle of English, as if in a type of patrilineal relationship that happened in some primitive peoples. And this uncle-ish character is fully preserved in the exercise book "38 Latin Stories", by Anne Groton and James May, and this is a pretty much good surprising characteristic of it.

   The book is designed for English speaking students who are using the famous and good "Wheelok's Latin" as its Latin Grammar. I bought the two books together but jumped rigth away to "38 Latin Stories" and was not disappointed at all. I got in fact a lot of fun out of it and all the pleasure and satisfaction I was expecting, which means the authors did a good job. Each of the 38 stories presented are famous texts of Latin or Greek ancient authors adapted to a modern reader, and the lessons are increasing in difficulty, according to the corresponding chapters of Wheelok's. The texts are at the left side of the page, with some remarks on the level of difficulty presented and at the right side there is the corresponding and explained vocabulary. At the end of the book, there is a very good glossary with words that are also important to the understanding of the texts, all this according to strict Latin way of presentations of verbs, nouns and all types of words.

   The texts are somewhat small but very interesting, both from the point of view of the stories written, all of them taken and adapted to prose from very well-known Latin or even Greek writers (Cicero, Homer, Julius Cesar etcetera). Given the idiosyncracies of the extreme irregular conjugation of verbs in Latin, and this specially from the point of view of the English speaking reader, it is advisable to have as an add-on any of the many good book of Latin verbs, as, for instance, 501 Latin verbs, by Richard Prior & Joseph Wohlberg, which has also a good verb locator.

   38 Stories is a very good help to any one interested in the Latin language, but it supposes some prior knowledge of the language. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Good reading and Valete!!




4. No, no, this thing doesn't qualify as a reader. Uh. Uh. Buyer beware on this one.
   For the money you can buy oh so much better than this one.
   
   I recommend Lingua Latina Familia Romana as a reader to have a ball with. It is dirt cheap and can be purchased from Angelus Press. It is one of those "soul satisfiers."
   "I have yet to grasp Wheelock Chapter One" will have a righteous good time with Familia Romana. I mean "no problem." Those holding steady will really get into it.
   
   You can't place the two next each other and allow 38 Stories to sell itself as a reader. It just won't work.
   
   So far as learning the "god and goddess" part if that is your crises just head for Bulfinch. You can obtain it for free from Blackmask on the web in ebook, or you can buy a beautiful paperback copy from Amazon. 38 Stories isn't how to do that. The wheel doesn't have to be reinvented in bizarre new ways. You're not going to struggle with recognizing which name in Latin is Minerva once you've enough declensions to head for the real thing. Fear only fear. No problem is ahead. You'll know Minerva when you see her.



5. 38 Latin stories for Wheelock's Latin has been great for putting the knowledge from the textbook into action. Plus, the stories are pretty interesting too.

5 comments about El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Oprah #59).

1. I bought this because it was made into a movie and won a Nobel prize, and I had never heard of it. I surprized myself that my Spanish was adequate to read it without too much dictionary use, and really enjoyed the writing style. A story I would compare with Dr Zivago - a love over many years with some deceptions and tears. The author paints very clear pictures of the settings and how they change over time. He manages to maintain some sympathy for the principal character in spite of his many poor choices.



2. Very enjoyable read due to the language, his spanish is very rich and involves you very easily, it's delightful. The plot is ok, with an end somewhat dissapointing.
   However, I am in a book club and all my friends read it in english. All of them disliked it. I have read some of it in english and it is not the same, the words are very similar but the diction is not entirely right so it makes it full of long, convoluted phrases. A pity.



3. Hace mucho que no leia Gabriel Garcia Marquez, la ultima vez fue en el colegio 100 años de soledad y fue tedioso, hoy me reconcilie con Garcia Marquez, sus descripciones son tal reales que hasta los aromas se hacen realidad, realmente nos damos cuenta de la calidad del escritor. UNa novela romantica rapida de leer que te cautiva desde las primeras paginas...totalmente recomendable



4. I would recomend this book to anyone who likes a good book if you do not belive me buy it and read it
   
   Miguel



5. Gracia's voice transports you to the specific moment you are reading about. Love this book.

5 comments about Cassell's Latin Dictionary: Latin-English, English-Latin.

1. This is a dictionary. It is complete, does everything you could want for a reference book. A Latin student or teacher must have this.



2. This is a very inexpensive and indispensable dictionary for those who have more than a rudimentary understanding of Latin. The binding is very solid so the ugly yellow and orange cover can be tossed. The dictionary lays flat on the table for easy consultation. What I found most useful (so far I have been translating Vergil and Suetonius extensively) is that after the common definition of the word, the dictionary lists the meaning and words that normally accompany it for specific Roman authors.
   
   For example:
   largus -a -um, adj. (with compar. and superl.) (1) of things, abundant, plentiful, numerous, copious: cum sol terras larga luce compleverit, Cicero. etc... (and then the way that Vergil, Tacitus, Horace and others use largus -a-um)
   
   The listing of how important authors commonly use the word is very helpful since words can have so many different meanings and this feature often makes comprehension of a difficult passage MUCH easier. Also, the volume has a Roman calender that is useful in figuring out Roman dates. I have not used the English to Latin section since I have not had to do any composition so please consult other reviewers on that aspect. This dictionary will last a lifetime. An amazing buy.



3. A handy size. Good grammer section. Useful pages on armies, currency, measures, dates, etc. Readable type. Recommended.



4. This edition replaced my Cassell's paperback editon & I'm very pleased with my selection. It's an excellent resource and very user friendly.



5. For anyone who would like to further their Latin language knowledge, i would advise this book greatly. This book helped me get through 3years of Latin in high school, so i decided to get one of my own.

5 comments about The Bantam New College Latin & English Dictionary, Revised Edition.

1. I wanted a Latin dictionary that would be easy to carry, so I went to a local bookstore and looked at several, using my standard technique for choosing dictionaries: I tried finding certain words in all of them. This was the only one with names of many "private" body parts and sexual practices.
   
   It is not so much that I need to look up those particular words; I just think that a dictionary that excludes them is probably deficient in other respects. I like Vergil, but I also want to read the language of the streets.
   
   All dictionaries translate words in isolation, but this one does a particularly good job of showing how they are used in common idiomatic expressions. For example, "thank you for" is translated "gratias tibi ago ob (w. acc)."
   
   I own four Latin dictionaries and sometimes use others online, but this is the one I use most often.



2. This is a very handy and concise Latin Dictionary, plus it has a number of idiomatic phrases -- both Latin and English.
   There are a few typos in the grammar guide, but it's easy to figure out what was going on.
   It's also simple, straight-forward, and direct. It gives shades of meanings for major words like facio or venio.
   Can't be beat for the price.



3. This Latin and English dictionary is perfect for anyone learning, studying or someone who is just curious about the Latin language. It provides ornate definitions for the Latin words, and it also has a wonderful English to Latin trnalsation section in the back.
   It contains:
   Both words and phrases used
   Mythincal/Geographical/and Historical Names
   Classical and Ecclesiastical Pronounciation guides
   
   Hope this review helped, this book is definately recommended!



4. though i'm a bit upset that a piece of the cover was torn off,
   this dictionary is great. it's thorough, cheap, and its easy to carry.
   
   it's all i could really ask for!



5. The Bantam Latin English Dictionary is a very useful reference, and I wish greatly that I had had it when I was studying Latin at university---a long time ago.

5 comments about Getting Started with Latin: Beginning Latin for Homeschoolers and Self-Taught Students of Any Age.

1. I shall endeavour to keep this review concise, and to the point, with the absolute beginner in mind.
   
   As an adult, who wasn't 'fortunate' enough to have gone to a private school as a child, I never had the opportunity to study the wonderful language that is Latin. There are many introductory books available to purchase, and lots of information to be had via the World Wide Web.
   
   What makes this book stand out then?
   
   Well, it provides a sound foundation from which to build upon; and does it in a way that is accessible, interesting, and above all effective. The author guides the student in a logical, and methodical manner; no pretentiousness nor stuffiness! This book makes learning Latin FUN, not a chore, and is certainly not boring. The layout is clear, and motivational. He has been kind enough to make available, free of charge, aural supplementary material (including invaluable pronunciation examples) that is available for download, from his website (is ~436MB enough for you?)- wow. In this day and age, how many authors would do that?
   
   For more detailed reviews, visit Mr Linney's personal website: 'gettingstartedwithlatin' (surprisingly(!)). My review here is just to let ordinary fellow mortals know that this book is an excellent introduction to such a wonderful language.
   
   The author replied to my email (very quickly indeed(!)) when I thanked him for the material that is available from his website- he remarked that he loves Latin, and is pleased to have been able to make it accessible.
   
   He certainly has done...



2. The rare Latin textbook accurately described by it's title.
   By virtue of it's simplicity it lulls the first time Latin student into learning with minimal effort. The introductory text I have been searching for as a self-taught adult with no prior Latin exposure. I would absolutely recommend it for anyone over the age of 7 or 8.
   It would be too simple if one was seeking to refresh or expand on prior Latin knowledge.
   The ideal appetiser.



3. Have just started reading this book, so I can't comment on it as a whole, but my first impressions have been very positive. The lessons are short, simple, and to the point. Words and concepts are introduced one or two at a time, keeping you from being overwhelmed by vocabulary and grammar right from the start. I keep this beside my bed and the last thing I do before turning out the light is to read a few lessons, and the first thing I do when I wake up is to read a few more. For a 26 year old with a full time job, very little time to study something just for fun, and absolutely no prior knowledge of Latin, I'm finding this book to be extremely helpful.
   
   Not only is it great to use for adults, it is written specifically for use by homeschooling parents and teachers. One day, when I have kids of my own, I can definitely see myself pulling this gem out and dusting it off. (if I've ever put it away that is!)



4. Professor William E. Linney has done us Latin buffs a great service. His Latin textbook, Getting Started with Latin, is excellent and easy for learn-at-home students. The text is extremely user-friendly. Combined with the computer audio downloads of the Professor's class instruction for each lesson (including audio pronunciation [Classical or Ecclesiastical] for each Latin word in each lesson), you have a complete classroom setting. And Latin is best learned in a classroom. Professor Linney is an excellent teacher because he patiently explains all for the neophyte student. The teacher brings his classroom into your own home. What a boon!
   
   Also, Professor Linney has the same classroom computer download system for his follow-on Latin course: The First Year of Latin. The textbook is of this title is authored by Walter B. Gunnison and Walter S. Harley. It's available here on Amazon also.
   
   I've learned a lot with Getting Started with Latin. I'm now part way through The First Year of Latin. The personal progress is very good, compared to when I tried to learn Latin on my own.
   
   Yours,
   paul mugar



5. My husband and I are homeschooling our children, and have studied Russian, French, and Biblical Greek between us. When we decided to introduce Latin to our 2nd grader, we both dreaded finding a book that would be easy to learn from and interesting for our daughter. Now we are all learning Latin together - and having a great time. Our only dilemma now is to decide how to proceed when we finish this book. Anyone have a suggestion on a good follow-up text?

5 comments about Workbook for Wheelock's Latin.

1. This workbook is a very helpful addition to the Wheelock Latin text. It provides a number of helpful exercises for you to practice what you've learned in the text. It's a must have for the self-learner. The only drawback is that you have to contact the publisher to get a copy of the answer key. It's not terribly difficult. It's just an added step.



2. Wheelock's Latin is the standard textbook for many beginning latin classes. My son is in 3rd year latin at High School, and the book has been extremely helpful to have at home. I would recommend buying both the textbook and the vocabulary card book at the same time, as it is less expensive that way and very helpful.



3. The text and this workbook are excellent. You need a live teacher to be successful with this study. The teacher will appreciate this workbook only with thee text it is to accompany. This text and workbook are slightly on the AP side of difficulty but still great for the formative Latin student.



4. This is a good workbook, but if you have "Wheelock's 6th edition, revised", you don't need this. Most of the exercises here are repetitions of the "Optional Self-Tutorial Exercises" in the back of the main book. Sometimes they repeat the *exact* same sentence to be translated! I felt a little deceived. But, I got the answer key easily, despite some complains about it here. They sent me the key in the same day.



5. The book is not easy to understand.
   
   Amazon.com backordered another order of mine without notifying me. Then, a day after I cancelled my order, they placed a pending charge on my Visa check card, overdrawing my account because I had to buy the book elsewhere. CUSTOMER SERVICE AT AMAZON.COM SUCKS!!!

5 comments about Wheelock's Latin (Wheelock's Latin).

1. This book is a great review of Latin and the pedagogy of Latin but it is not for the first-time student in place of a live teacher. It is complete, a bit different that the text I have used but is worth every cent. It is a great text and a supplement to a course but it is not a course unto itself. The first-time student needs a live teacher and someone to hear their utterances. There are workbooks and other companion texts to accompany the text. A Good Buy!



2. I haven't worked diligently with it yet, but its purpose was to have it available for my bright grandson to help him understand the derivation of so many words in the English and Latin-based languages. By the way, I think Mrs. Hogle (in Chicago) was a direct decendant of Caesar.



3. "Wheelock's Latin" is perhaps the best conservative book of its type -- that is, it's the best of grammar-before-understanding Latin textbooks, and it shows. It thoroughly explains the grammar in ways most college textbooks don't, and it has plenty of selections from the original authors, which, if quickly understood, helps build enthusiasm: "Look, Mom! After 1/2 an hour of sweating, I finally understand these three sentences!" Moreover, there are additional readings in the back, in case you'd like to test (or brush up on) your knowledge of mechanical decoding.
   
   But, that's where the fun ends. I used this book in a summer intensive course, and loved it. We finished most of in 8 weeks, and I, too, was pretty confident like the hypothetical student above. Soon, though, I noticed that learning Latin felt unnatural. After a semester of prose, we moved on to Ovid, and something became clear: I wasn't "reading," but decoding.. Wheelock and subsequent instruction trained me to do exactly that.
   
   Decoding -- it's when a student looks at a sentence, and hunts: there's a noun, there's the adjective, but, they're in different cases; oh, the adjective probably goes with this noun, then. Verb, adverb, subject.. and, ECCE! Puzzle solved.
   
   Is this reading? Why are students of German, or Russian (a more difficult language, by the way) able to build the kind of proficiency in 2 years that many 5-year students of Latin only daydream about? The difference is in the approach: German and Russian are taught as languages, while Latin is usually taught as a synthetic, mechanical puzzle. And, don't try to say that German and Russian are still spoken -- that's not an excuse, considering that it's possible to at least approximate Latin fluency by constructing artificial social situations: audio, continuous prose composition at very early levels and beyond, and exposure to low-level readings.
   
   Wheelock does not help this problem. Instead, Wheelock does the following: he gives you a great grammatical introduction, and then throws sentences at you, which you either translate into English or into Latin. These exercises are graded by difficulty, but there's no continuous reading.. there's no introduction of "baby prose," of substantial narrative-nuggets that might get the student thinking in Latin, and thinking of Latin *as* Latin -- that is, as an individual language, one that should not be forced into an Anglicized word order, or puzzled out, piece by piece.
   
   Now, there's certainly nothing wrong with the above if it's immediately followed by a different approach. But, Wheelock is not designed with an alternative in mind -- high schools and colleges start you with Wheelock, and then throw you into advanced prose or poetry. There is no side-step, or, even more helpful, a step back.
   
   Students that are just starting out, like me, at one time, don't realize the following: they will never learn to read Latin properly with such an approach. Sure, they may learn to read Latin properly if they do something on their own *in conjunction* with typical formal instruction, but, I suspect the formal approach then becomes a burden, a distraction from the student's "real work."
   
   Obviously, that's a problem.. the student never really gets used to Latin word order, among other things, because he's never around enough of it in quick, digestible chunks. Moreover, if he never practices generating Latin quickly and proficiently, there will always be a barrier between the original Latin text and his true abilities, especially in terms of reading speed. Although we have only a tiny portion of original Latin literature extant, it's pretty much inconceivable for a student to ever get through those works in his entire lifetime, if, that is, he never leaves the Wheelock approach.
   
   Instead, I'd recommend Orberg's "Lingua Latina." It's an excellent book designed for Latin fluency, if used in conjunction with other materials. It's all written in Latin, as one continuous narrative broken into different scenes and chapters. Although it starts out very simple, it moves up to real sophistication, but slowly enough that, with a little patience and review, the student is reading the final chapters (which approximate unadapted Latin, by the way) at a respectable speed, and only sometimes hunting for objects, subjects, etc., in some of the more difficult or unclear sentences. At the end of the first chapter, you will have done several pages of solid reading, which might be more reading than in all of Wheelock's chapters combined. Interestingly, your reading speed, while it will decrease as you move on to the harder stuff, won't decrease significantly. And eventually, you can get it back, and move beyond your initial stages.
   
   I'd also recommend Adler's "Practical Latin Grammar," which is out of print, but nonetheless available on Google Books. Adler's textbook is especially good as a supplement to "Lingua Latina," since it eventually covers every important point of grammar, including complex subordination. It's focused on *conversational* Latin, which forces the student to generate and verbalize good Latin sentences from the very beginning. The entire book has been rendered into audio on Evan Millner's "Latinum Podcast" site, which -- at least a few hundred hours worth, if not more -- is available for free. In this way, you're doing two things: you're practicing complex prose with proper reading skills with Orberg's book, and practicing listening and speaking Latin with Adler and Millner.
   
   An article criticizing the typical Latin-teaching approaches mentioned something interesting and revealing: in the Renaissance, students were first taught conversational Latin for five or six years before ever cracking open some Caesar or Cicero. And only years later, perhaps, did they ever touch poetry. Doesn't this seem sensible? To truly understand a language, or even to simply be competent enough to read at a decent speed, from the start of a sentence to the end, without juggling endless case endings and objects in your mind, requires this kind of approach. Sure, if you're doing Latin academically, there may be no time -- you're expected to have decoded at least a couple of hundred of pages of Latin by the time you hit your Ph.D. stage, in some schools. But, if you're interested in doing well and improving every day, and visibly, for that matter, forget about Latin literature for as long as you can tolerate it, and start with the basics: easy reading, and conversation.
   
   And it's not all bad: I'm glad I did Wheelock, because "Lingua Latina" was much easier for me, given the vocabulary and abstract grammatical knowledge I had. So, if you're completing Wheelock now, or about to start it, consider it preparation for what comes ahead.
   
   For more information, read William Dowling's homepage -- a fluent reader of Latin, he first turned me on to this "natural method" of language acquisition. He doesn't accept e-mails, but you can write some snail mail to him, as I did:
   
   http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wcd/Latin.htm
   
   Alex Sheremet



4. The book is not easy to understand.
   
   Amazon.com backordered another order of mine without notifying me. Then, a day after I cancelled my order, they placed a pending charge on my Visa check card, overdrawing my account because I had to buy the book elsewhere. CUSTOMER SERVICE AT AMAZON.COM SUCKS!!!



5. Having reached the point of the subjunctive mood I feel confident enough to step forward and say that this is an amazing textbook. I began apsiring to learn Latin my Junior year of High School and I finally bought this book half way through my senior year. It has been slow going, but I began just teaching myself, and I have to say, this book was amazingly good in all regards even then. Having reached the later stages of introductory grammar for Latin now, I would vouch for this book in every regard. If you apsire to learn Latin, this is the ideal textbook, it is thorough and clear. Even from my limited experience I would say that there are few which compare. Valete!

5 comments about Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary.

1. Great little pocket dictionary for those who don't want to carry around a heavier full-sized eng/span diction. It's not 'quite' as complete, but it's about 99% there. It's going to have all of the important words



2. Great little pocket dictionary for those who don't want to carry around a heavier full-sized eng/span diction. It's not 'quite' as complete, but it's about 99% there. It's going to have all of the important words



3. I use this dictionary quite a bit as it is small enough to be light and easy to carry and big enough to contain most everyday words. I think that the content is good but I compared to my other (larger) dictionary by Harper Collins the paper is somewhat gray and the words don't stand out as well. Also the ink is not the most permanent so if you are not careful you can end up with gray stains on your fingertips. I would recommend spending slightly more to get something with a higher quality of paper and printing.



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5. This is the absolutely perfect spanish/english reference dictionary. It is compact, easy to use & access.