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The leading Latin course worldwide Book II focuses first on life in Roman Britain before moving further afield to Egypt. Book II is full colour throughout, with a clear layout of stories and language notes. Featuring a glossary for quick reference and comprehension questions, the book also includes a full explanation of language points and grammar practice exercises.
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Book II focuses first on life in Roman Britain before moving further afield to Egypt. Book II is full colour throughout, with a clear layout of stories and language notes. Featuring a glossary for quick reference and comprehension questions, the book also includes a full explanation of language points and grammar practice exercises.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Having learnt Latin at school for two years and then dropped it I decided that I would like to go back and re-learn it.
This series of books are great for this. They take you through each bit of grammar and style with clear written examples and give you lots of practise in the exersizes provided. This is in addition to the prose that is fundamental to every chapter.
The book is divided into 20 chapters, each with a slightly different theme. The chapters involve a set of characters that recur throughout the series. Each one has a different adventure happen to one character or another and you are required to translate them. This was quite helpful to me as instead of the text being just something random it was quite good to follow the adventures of the different Romans.
Because of these different stories you are introduced to different aspects and locations in the Roman world. To accompany this there is usually an explaination of different lifestyles with lots of colour photos. This helps to bring the book 'to life', as it were; rather than just relying on text.
The book also contains a dictionary at the back, containing all the words that are used in the book. Along with this there is a section covering all the grammar introduced as the book progresses.
Overall I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn Latin. It is a great follow-up to the first book and takes things at a nice steady pace.
32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
This is a great improvement on the former Units 2A and 2B. The longer stories have been shortened (e.g. Ludi Funebres, Stage 15), boring ones removed (e.g. mercator Arabs, stage 17), fewer vocabulary words in the Checklists; but most of all is the massive improvement in the paralinguistic material. The Roman Britain stages, previously turgid in content and uninspiring in pictures, has been dramatically improved. In the same way, the Alexandria stages have powerful colour photos and information on the latest underwater discoveries in the harbour of Alexandria, and some excellent maps. All in all, a first class revamping of the original units.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
If you liked Book One then you need to have a strong stomach for Book 2. Having left most of the previous family dead in the eruption of Pompeii, we meet a new family living in Britain. Our introduction is with the new master ordering the death of a sick slave because he is no use to him. When his son tries to avenge his death he is slaughtered too! It's brutal Brutus. Can't wait to get further on and move to Alexandria. Book 2 is excellent with its information/vocabulary and grammar explanations. Learning Latin is the highlight of my week!
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Just what I wanted for my U3A Latin class. Vocabulary help on each page where there is Latin script. Also grammar pages at the back and a good Latin/English dictionary as well.
Published 6 months ago by Minnie
Review of Cambridge Latin Book 2
The course book is again of a very high standard. The subject matter is very interesting, about the Roman occupation of Britain and again refers to an actual person who lived here... Read more
Published on 19 Jan 2010 by S. Arkell
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