Ora Maritima (Classic Reprint): A Latin Story for Beginners, With Grammar and Exercises: A Latin Story for Beginners, with Grammar and Exercises (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Sonnenschein, E. A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330290690 ISBN 13: 9781330290699

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Ora Maritima: A Latin Story for Beginners, With Grammar and Exercises

MY apology for adding another to the formidable array of elementary Latin manuals is that there is no book in existence which satisfies the requirements which I have in mind as of most importance for the fruitful study of the language by beginners.

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Excerpt from Ora Maritima: A Latin Story for Beginners, With Grammar and Exercises

My apology for adding another to the formidable array of elementary Latin manuals is that there is no book in existence which satisfies the requirements which I have in mind as of most importance for the fruitful study of the language by beginners. What I desiderate is: -

1. A continuous narrative from beginning to end, capable of appealing in respect of its vocabulary and subject matter to the minds and interests of young pupils, and free from all those syntactical and stylistic difficulties which make even the easiest of Latin authors something of a problem.

2. A work which shall hold the true balance between too much and too little in the matter of systematic grammar. In my opinion, existing manuals are disfigured by a disproportionate amount of lifeless Accidence. The outcome of the traditional system is that the pupil learns a multitude of Latin forms (Cases, Tenses, Moods), but very little Latin. That is to say, he acquires a bowing acquaintance with all the forms of Nouns and Verbs - such as Ablatives in a, e, i, o, u, 3rd Persons in at, et, it, and so forth - before he gets a real hold of the meaning or use of any of these forms. But, as Goethe said in a different connexion, "What one cannot use is a heavy burden"; and my experience leads me to think that a multitude of forms acts as an encumbrance to the pupil at an early stage by distracting his attention from the more vital matters of vocabulary, sentence construction, and order of words. The real meaning of the Ablative, for instance, can be just as well learned from the 1st Declension as from all the declensions taken together.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330290690
• ISBN 13: 9781330290699
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 166