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Ecce Romani: Language Activity Book Student's Edition : Ii-A Home and School

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I took Latin I and II using the Ecce Romani series. When I switched schools, I had to switch to using the Cambridge Latin Course Unit 3 book for Latin III. I began to realize how lucky I had been to have been using the Ecce Romani series. The Cambridge books are very poorly written. The new vocabulary for each chapter is not put together very well in a way that makes it easy to learn. Since there are many little stories in each chapter, as opposed to the one big one and occasional second enrichment reading in the Ecce Romani books, there is vocab under each story. They tried to make a vocabulary list at the end of each chapter, but it never contains all the vocabulary listed under each story. The Ecce Romani books do a much better job of condensing the vocabulary and putting it all in one place, making it easier to learn. The Cambridge books are very confusing to look at and read because only proper nouns are capitalized. The back sections of the Cambridge books also only contain a Latin-English dictionary, so you're out of luck if you want to look up what an English word translates to in Latin. The Ecce Romani books contain both an English-Latin and Latin-English dictionary. The Ecce Romani series also does a much better job of explaining the grammar you learn each chapter. All the Cambridge books do is give you an example, not actually telling you how to form it in a sentence. The Ecce Romani books also have more challenging practice problems, and more of them, than the Cambridge books. The Ecce Romani series also follows the same characters through the first two books, and gives a much more interesting storyline than the Cambridge series. On a more artistical note, the Ecce Romani books are much more interesting to look at, with color pictures that don't look like quick sketches, like the black and white Cambridge pictures do.
DO NOT buy the Cambridge series books. The books are very poorly written. The Ecce Romani series is a much better Latin textbook series, which I highly recommend for anyone studying or planning on studying Latin.

The book is a requirement for my 11-year old, homeschooled daughter who is taking Latin I, through a distance learning program. She says the work is challenging but fun!! She loves the course!

Easy to learn a dead language through this colorful and exciting book. Better than the first!

This book arrived and was not the ISBN number I had requested. I even sent a message to seller to make sure it was the same because of it being a text book. I did not return it because it would have cost more than it was worth. Next time I will not pay for a book until I receive confirmations. Learning by my mistakes.