Waterstones First Thousand Words in Latin
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Price: £7.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: A Latin word book, illustrated with busy scenes and labelled pictures to help children learn key Latin vocabulary. Contemporary scenes introduce the Latin words for many modern-day objects, bringing the classical language to life. Includes a Latin/English word list and a pronunciation guide to ensure effective, long-term learning. Waterstones First Thousand Words in Latin - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781409566151
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ISBN: 9781409566151
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Author: eviber
Rating: 5
Review: my highschool students wanted to learn some words regarding what they see around themselves and this is a good fit for them. they really like to match the word to the meaning. sort of a down time from regular Latin learning.
Author: Blue Isblue
Rating: 1
Review: As perhaps should have been obvious to me, owning other editions of this title for mordern languages, the book has plenty of Latin words next to their pictures, which is a quick way to absorb vocabulary. For Latin this is less than useful, because many of the the pictures are of modern life, and thus new Latin words have been coined to describe them. Now that's helpful if you're reading the excellent translation of Harry Potter and need a word for train, but other objects are more problematic. The Latin for kangaroo for example, well, has to be made up. Latin for panda - did the Roman world know of pandas? There was trade with the East, certainly, but is "chinese bear" the word they would have used or just an obvious gloss? Also zebra is translated as hippotigris, so hippo from horse and tigris from tiger. And hippotigris is one of the modern scientifc names for zebra, but in the ancient world it was applied to the ass, which is a member of the horse family that has some stripes near its tail. So which word would a Roman have used for which creature? I can't trust which words might be authentic vocabulary and which modern creations, and I'm not sure a made-up modern approach to Latin is the way to go. More useful would be pictures specific to the Roman world and culture, which of course would take a whole new book rather than one from this series. I'm unsure what practical use this book has, getting youngsters to talk about things in Latin and build anachronistic vocabulary skills seems short-sighted. Definitely not for me, buyer beware.
