Learn Latin: A Guide to Learning the Basics of a New Language

by Jenna Swan

Is it still possible to master at least the basics of the Latin language if you’re given only a few days to do so? Fortunately, it is possible, and this book will help you do just that.

This book contains 24 chapters on the essentials of the Latin language, the base tongue of the Romance languages. It is designed to provide a compact and modern learning material for travellers, professionals, students, and language enthusiasts who want to understand and speak the language in a short time. The book provides self-learners with a comprehensive yet straightforward grammar resource for learning Latin. It provides thousands of important Latin phrases and terms that can be used for everyday conversations, a pronunciation guide, and a listing of abbreviations and important words in Latin.

This book features not only basic Latin grammar rules but also easy-to-understand guides on how the language can best be used in various situations.

Genres: Nonfiction

169 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 27, 2016

Reviews

[Timothy H. Penn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good Review of the Basics

This book is a good review of the basics of Latin with handy tables for reference throughout. Very well done.

[Jan · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's been a looong time since I took a brick and mortar Latin course, so I was a little lost in all of the grammatics. That being said, I am very fluent in medical Latin, but wanted a leg up in heraldic usage as well as things like bases of romance language words and fooling around in some of the urban fantasy stuff (some authors get their giggle on by using latin words in spell working that are really funny if you know their meaning, not threatening or harmful).
I cannot testify as to whether the format is useful to others, but (except for the declensions), I found it very well suited to my needs. I am very happy to have this on my tablet for quick reference.
I won this eBook in Member Giveaway on LibraryThing.com in an exchange for an honest review.

[mk · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought it'd be fun to learn Latin. After I received this book, I saw how complex Latin is and I also remembered that I won't really find the use of Latin in my life, so I gave up. I expected it to be more similar to English, German or Spanish. I am really glad I don't have to learn Latin at the uni.

The book in itself is a nice collection of vocabulary and ready-to-use sentences. Grammar is not well explained and I find some of the descriptions not clear, but maybe it's just me. I am not sure if I'd recommend this book.

I won this eBook in Member Giveaway on LibraryThing.com in an exchange for an honest review.

[Eileen Hall · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you want to learn a language such as Latin without the jargon that comes with some other self help languages this is for you.
A very straight forward simple layout that makes it very easy to comprehend.
Highly recommended.
I was given a digital copy by the author Jenna Swan in return for an honest unbiased review.