Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Some suggestions for review



I was thinking about review work and remembered this very interesting learner's edition of part of Caesar's Gallic War. Caesar isn't medieval, of course, but it looks like it this book offers some very useful experience in how sentences are constructed. It gives the central clause of each sentence, then adds more words or single phrases to what has already been seen, and slowly builds the full, real Latin sentences. I strongly recommend that anyone interested in some basic review should have a look at it. You can use this in conjunction with Perseus' morphological analysis tool.

In case anyone is really keen, here is a practice unseen translation on a seasonal theme. See how far you can get in roughly seventy minutes. I'll post a key in January.