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46 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for pronunciation, but not much else..., October 19, 1998
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This review is from: Latin: Start Speaking Today! (Language 30) (Audio Cassette)
Though Latin is usually thought of as a written language rather than a spoken one, learning to pronounce a language is a very helpful tool for learning. If this is all you are looking for, you are in the right place. Many examples are given of both secular and church prounciation, but don't expect to find any kind of grammar or other language instruction. This is a resource soley for those that are learning Latin from a book and want to know more about how it should be pronounced.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Better resources., February 20, 2001
This review is from: Latin: Start Speaking Today! (Language 30) (Audio Cassette)
This is a good tool for learning about Latin phrases used in English. However, I have found more comprehensive tools for learning Latin pronunciation for free on the Web.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing learned. A bit of pronunciation gleened perhaps., November 26, 2003
This review is from: Latin: Start Speaking Today! (Language 30) (Audio Cassette)
This thankfully brief lesson in Latin offers very little in the way of actual instruction. The pauses between speakers is too short to repeat the phrases they are purportedly trying to teach you. The cassettes do give the listener a simplistic language lesson in the applications of Latin and you can pick up on some aspects of both classic and modern church Latin pronunciation through the rapid attempts to repeat the phrases offered. My biggest complaint is that many of the phrases are far too long to be repeated all at once, yet the speaker does not pause in the middle to let you repeat portions of it. Overall, i would say these lessons are not actually for learning Latin, rather for picking out bits and pieces of Latin that you already know.
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