The CLC E-Learning Resources on DVD funded by the Department for Education and Skills, and produced in conjunction with Granada and CUP, the CLC E-Learning Resources on DVD each provide 1,000 electronic activities, including specially commissioned videos, for CLC Books I and II.

The first line is probably the most famous line in Latin: ‘Arma virumque cano,’ — ‘I sing of arms and of the man…’ If you start learning the first line, not only will you know the most famous line of Latin, but you’ll also begin to get an understanding of Roman history and actually how very close the Aeneid is to the Iliad. Although the style and con­tents of the book might seem rather arid to stu­dents, the result from using it is always the same: My stu­dents mas­ter the most impor­tant aspects of gram­mar and phrase­ol­o­gy inti­mate­ly. Well, they’re not exactly about learning Latin, they’re the best books if you would like to learn Latin. The new UK/International 5th edition is currently underway, with Books I and II due to be published in 2022.He is based on the historical Tiberius Claudius Balbilus, a court astronomer to the emperors Claudius, Nero, and Vespasian. Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too.

In the original version of Book 1, Quintus plays a very limited role and in one famous scene, which I decided to delete, he punches a dog! However, if the main goal of learning Latin is to be able to translate the texts that the Romans wrote (and I fail to see why else one would bother! The individual user account lasts one year (365 days) from the date of purchase and gives access to both Book 1 and Book 2.It’s extremely funny in English and actually the English version has some very, very good Latin jokes in it. This is a novella that was written in Classical Latin, set in Ancient Rome but written with a modern audience in mind. People don’t expect, when you’re teaching maths and learning long division — no one’s suggesting that that should be fun.

Trans­la­tion exer­cis­es are use­ful, but they will be of lit­tle use with­out ample read­ing of lev­el-appro­pri­ate Latin. How­ev­er, the fairy­tales are not the Dis­ney ver­sions of the sto­ries, which means that even though you know the sto­ries, plots and end­ings might come as a surprise. Like you, I was lucky enough to have a Westminster School and Oxbridge classical education, but someone that helped with my Latin language immensely was Reginaldus Foster, who was the Pope’s Latin secretary. Since there is no grammar or vocabulary assistance, this novella is recommended for an intermediate-level Latin reader.

Plus, I’ll let you into a little secret: children aren’t only motivated by fun: they are also motivated by challenge, so long as they are given the tools to succeed. For those who don’t know it, the Cambridge Latin Course spoon-feeds children, patronizes them, it expects them not to learn all these things—like conjugations and declensions—so they’re forever feeling in the dark, because they haven’t learned the basics. The book is writ­ten in easy but clas­si­ciz­ing Latin with a vocab­u­lary of few­er than 350 words. It features a real family who lived at Vindolanda in 100AD: Flavius, the fort commander, his wife Lepidina, their three children, assorted household slaves, their cat Vibrissa - and Minimus the mouse!