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Cambridge Latin Course Unit 3 4th Edition
In good condition. Pages in excellent condition and mark free. Cover in good condition, no heavy wear, minimal wear. Hard cover. Cambridge Latin Course, Unit 3, 4th edition
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First published January 1, 1983
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May 29, 2012
*3.5
Done! Done with this book! Looking forward to the one for next year. Sed ubi sunt Quintus et Metella? I miss their stories. Tamen hic liber est ridiculus et fabulae sunt difficiles mihi credere.
Done! Done with this book! Looking forward to the one for next year. Sed ubi sunt Quintus et Metella? I miss their stories. Tamen hic liber est ridiculus et fabulae sunt difficiles mihi credere.
November 11, 2022
Just reading - the story becomes disjointed & takes another set of characters in this text vs the prior texts.
January 7, 2023
Cæcilius is dead.
July 22, 2015
This book seamlessly continues the instruction that ended in the second Cambridge volume. I was happy to see that many of the characters, e.g. Salvius, reappeared. The new characters (especially the pantomime Paris and dwarf pipe-player Myropnous) were colorful additions.
Stories have one or two typos (always involving macrons) throughout but are written in good Latin that mercifully gets more challenging over the course of the book. The subjunctive, ablative absolutes, all tenses and both voices are introduced by the end. Some syntactical concepts (e.g. concessive/causal cum clauses) are left for the fourth volume, so this is not a terminus of the program: the students really must read through the fourth volume to encounter all of Latin grammar.
Grammar explanations, as in the first volume, are woefully inadequate. It seems that in an effort to make reading fluency occur naturally, the authors have fallen into the trap that simply knowing the grammar prevents reading fluency. This is obviously nonsense. Moreover, English translations are provided for new vocabulary and translation of whole passages is explicitly encouraged. The onus falls yet again on the teacher to discuss why the ablative absolute is "absolute," to explain how the different tenses relate to each other, to systematize the sequence of tenses, etc.
Cultural passages are interesting, especially the military segments and the discussion of freedmen. The story is also generally interesting and ends on a cliffhanger (DUMDUMDUM).
Stories have one or two typos (always involving macrons) throughout but are written in good Latin that mercifully gets more challenging over the course of the book. The subjunctive, ablative absolutes, all tenses and both voices are introduced by the end. Some syntactical concepts (e.g. concessive/causal cum clauses) are left for the fourth volume, so this is not a terminus of the program: the students really must read through the fourth volume to encounter all of Latin grammar.
Grammar explanations, as in the first volume, are woefully inadequate. It seems that in an effort to make reading fluency occur naturally, the authors have fallen into the trap that simply knowing the grammar prevents reading fluency. This is obviously nonsense. Moreover, English translations are provided for new vocabulary and translation of whole passages is explicitly encouraged. The onus falls yet again on the teacher to discuss why the ablative absolute is "absolute," to explain how the different tenses relate to each other, to systematize the sequence of tenses, etc.
Cultural passages are interesting, especially the military segments and the discussion of freedmen. The story is also generally interesting and ends on a cliffhanger (DUMDUMDUM).
May 25, 2012
I basically spend a good portion of my day twaching high school Latin from this text. It is well written but the order of presentation of grammar does not agree well with the usual presentation in the USA so competitions and such are tough when my students have learned the subjunctive but not the future tense!
May 30, 2012
Quidlibet. Delectat me alii libri plus. Domitia stultissima est.
January 4, 2009
What I Learned: How to Translate Latin!!!
April 27, 2016
Best one of the Cambridge series.
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