Latin for Americans Level 1, Student Edition

by B.L. Ullman, Charles Henderson

COMPLETELY REVISED TO BRING LATIN INTO THE 21st CENTURY This best-selling series offers a solid approach to teaching the Latin language and the Roman culture. This new, 3-level visual program includes colorful photographs and fine art reproductions that add interest to the lesson.

Genres: Reference, Textbooks, Language, School, Nonfiction

576 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Berthold Louis Ullman

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've graduated to book 2!!

[rogue · Rating 3 out of 5]

This review is for the 1968 edition, so perhaps the future editions were better. This edition, however, is serviceable but not very good. It has a nice little introduction, but grammatical concepts are introduced in a haphazard fashion that makes mastery of concepts difficult. The stories are put at the beginning of the chapters instead of at the end--perhaps this is so the student can try to "figure out the story" first but it isn't realistic or helpful since the stories aren't written with the goal of teaching the concepts simply through reading. The stories themselves are dull and lack continuity from one chapter to the next, so that there's little desire to see what will happen next.

[JMZ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing text book. The only thing that actually challenges me now a days. "Latin for Americans" provides Latin paragraphs to translate (of course), historical images, information on the Romans, and great quizzes at the end of each unit to do.

[Grace]

Ha! Had to add this! School :P