Wheelock's Latin (Wheelock's Latin)

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Authors: Frederic M. Wheelock, Richard A. Lafleur
Brand: Harper Collins Publishers
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 768

Media: Paperback
Edition: 6 Blg Rev
Pages: 560
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.5

MPN: 9780060783716
ISBN: 0060783710
Dewey Decimal Number: 478.2421
EAN: 9780060783716
ASIN: 0060783710

Publication Date: May 31, 2005
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•	Kindle Edition - Wheelock's Latin, 6th Edition Revised
•	Hardcover - Wheelock's Latin, 6th Edition Revised (The Wheelock's Latin)

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Product Description
The revised sixth edition of Wheelock s Latin contains 40 chapters with grammatical explanations and readings based on ancient Roman authors self-tutorial exercises with an answer key for independent study a newly enlarged English-Latin/Latin-English vocabulary a rich selection of original Latin readings and etymological aids. Also included are maps of the Mediterranean, Italy, and the Aegean area as well as numerous photographs illustrating aspects of classical culture, mythology, and historical and literary figures presented in the chapter readings. Recommended in: Laura Berquist College Latin Using Wheelock s Latin Author: Frederic M. Wheelock, revised by Richard LaFleur Publisher: HarperCollins Format: 512 pages, paperback ISBN: 006-078371-0

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Excellent :) August 1, 2010
Dales10
The textbook came in a timely fashion and was just as good as new. The text itself is very helpful, and as an aspiring Latin teacher, I think Wheelock is among the best I've seen and used.

2 out of 5 stars

Too much pretentious poetry for a beginner June 30, 2010
Gareth W. Mann (Florida, US)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

The principal method that this book employs is to overwhelm the reader with huge ammounts of grammar, and then confuse the reader by presenting a bunch of pretentious classical poetry which barely makes use of the grammar if not directly throwing the grammar out of the window entirely (there are a number of lines within these poems that do not even include verbs).

Other issues I had with this book were to do with the order in which vocabulary and grammar is introduced. There is a lot of emphasis on the verbs "to warn" and "to praise", perhaps the Roman Senators did a lot of warning and praising, but the rather more useful verbs "to go", "to get" and "to have" barely get a look in, in fact the verb "to go" only gets mentioned at the very end of the book. Furtermore the various verb tenses are presented in a non-sensical order. Since most people learn Latin to study history, it seems sensible that the past perfect tense would be the most useful one to learn early on, with particular emphasis on the third person singular and third person plural (i.e. he/they went, he/they had, he was/they were, etc.) But this tense is not introduced until chapter 12, where as the past imperfect (I was going) and future (I will go) tenses are introduced as early as chapter 5. Why an earth is so much early emphasis placed on the future tense in a language that is used primarily to study societies in the past not the future?? There is also too much emphasis on the various subjunctive tenses, the reader has to sit through many chapters on the various subjunctive tenses before even being taught how to say "I go".

I do not understand why the authors felt it was neccesary to introduce at least 6 different ways of saying "therefore" in a beginner's textbook (ita, itaque, quare, sic, ergo, ideo). Instead they should have only included the most common 2 or 3 ways, or if they are all equally common, then a whole section should have been written about this peculiarity of Latin and emphasizing that all 6 words should be memorized.

The book is a useful resource, but perhaps not for a beginner, if you are going to use this book to learn Latin, do so in combination with other texts that focus more on the basics, I can recommend Lingua Latina per Illustrada for that.

Edit: I removed my complaint about the answers not being available, having learnt that an answer key is available for free online.

4 out of 5 stars

Go Latin June 24, 2010
Michele L. Block (Rockville, MD)
It was a gift and my friend loved it. Ususally books take less time to arrive and there was no tracking number so we had no way of finding out where or if the book was en route.
Great book.

5 out of 5 stars

The "Gold Standard" Latin Text June 5, 2010
P. Davis (Tuscaloosa, AL USA)
Wheelock's Latin appears to be the standard college-level text for learning Latin. It is clearly written and has both exercises at the end of each chapter, and an additional section of exercises at the back of the book particularly aimed at readers (like me) who are attempting to teach themselves Latin. With a coordinating Workbook (Workbook for Wheelock's Latin), a website that includes audio files of the vocabulary words being pronounced ([...]), a coordinated reader (38 Latin Stories) (38 Latin Stories Designed to Accompany Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin (Latin Edition)), and a "companion text" (A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin: Newly Revised for Wheelock's 6th Edition) that offers more explanation of the book topics, there is a fairly complete curriculum available for serious students. I highly recommend Wheelock's Latin. I also highly recommend Grote's companion text as a source for clarification of the grammar topics. It is also fairly easy to find online groups where people work through the text at a specified pace and then submit their "homework" to a facilitator who compiles all of the answers in a side-by-side format and redistributes them to the group members so that answers can be compared. Overall, a pretty complete package.

4 out of 5 stars

good intensive text May 30, 2010
M. Peterson
I find this a decent text for an intensive Latin course or self-study. Do not make the mistake of assuming it is necessarily the best text for everyone because it is a classic. The author intends it for students getting their first exposure to Latin in college and needing an intensive introduction to the language. It might work for motivated high school students as well, but the order in which the material is presented is not necessarily intuitive and doesn't provide a "gentle" introduction to the language. It does provide significant discussion of cognate and derivitive words in English and Romance languages, as well as interesting cultural and historical notes. The exercises are well written and the author has taken great pains to include excerpts from actual Classical writings (sometimes simplified), starting with the very first lesson. The exercises are mainly sentences, however, so aside from short passages from antiquity there are not many "readings" presented for practicing translation skills. Minor grammatical uses (of particular noun cases, for instance) are at times introduced in an almost paranthetical manner, which might make them less likely to be noted and remembered by students. Overall it is a very academic treatment which is thorough but might not be suited to all learning styles and levels.

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