Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, Pars I: Familia Romana (Latin Edition) (Latin) Second Edition

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Hans Ørberg's Lingua Latina per se Illustrata is the world's premiere series for learning Latin via the Natural Method. The Natural Method encourages students to learn Latin without resorting to translation, but instead by teaching them to think in the language: students first learn grammar and vocabulary inductively through extended contextual reading and an ingenious system of marginal notes. Lingua Latina per se Illustrata is also the most popular series for those teachers at both the secondary and collegiate levels who wish to develop Latin conversational skills in the classroom.

Familia Romana (the main book of Pars I of the Lingua Latina per se illustrata series) contains thirty-five chapters and describes the life of a Roman family in the 2nd century A.D. It culminates in readings from classical poets and Donatus's Ars Grammatica, the standard Latin school text for a millennium. Each chapter is divided into two or three lessons (lectiones) of a few pages each followed by a grammar section (Grammatica Latina) and three exercises (Pensa). Hans Ørberg's impeccable Latin, humorous stories, and the Peer Lauritzen illustrations, reproduced in full color, make this work a classic. The book also includes a table of declensions, a Roman calendar, and a word index (index vocabulorum).

The Lingua Latina series incorporates the following features:

The most comprehensive treatment of Latin grammar available in an elementary textbook.
A vocabulary of almost 1,800 words, reinforced by constant and creatively phrased repetition, vastly expands the potential for later sight reading.
A complete line of ancillary volumes, exercises, and readers both in print and online.

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"Familia Romana and A Companion to Familia Romana came as a complete revelation. I'd heard they were unique, but they are literally nothing less than a work of genius. They would completely revolutionize the classroom, and I would urge all teachers of first-year Latin at universities and all high school teachers to seriously consider adopting this radical approach to learning Latin. The companion volume provides all the traditional exposure you would want, but the main volume shows every prospect of genuinely internalizing Latin in the learner's brain as a living language, calling on a whole set of language-acquisition skills and instincts normally neglected in the teaching of a dead language. Mind-blowing."
—Jack Mitchell, Department of Classics, Dalhousie University

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Hans Ørberg’s Lingua Latina per se Illustrata is the world’s premiere textbook for Learning Latin via the Natural Method. Students first learn grammar and vocabulary intuitively through extended contextual reading and an innovative system of marginal notes. It is the only textbook currently available that gives students the opportunity to learn Latin without resorting to translation, but allows them to “think” in the language. It is also the most popular text for teachers, at both the secondary and collegiate levels, who wish to incorporate conversational skills into their classroom practice.

Lingua Latina incorporates the following features:

The most comprehensive treatment of Latin grammar available in an elementary textbook
A vocabulary of almost 1,800 words, reinforced by constant and creatively phrased repetition, vastly expands the potential for later sight reading
A complete line of ancillary volumes, exercises, and readers both in print and online

Seasoned secondary and college teachers often find their own reading facility enhanced by using Lingua Latina.

Publisher : Focus; Second edition (March 1, 2011)
Language : Latin
Paperback : 328 pages
ISBN-10 : 1585104205
ISBN-13 : 978-1585104208
Item Weight : 1.13 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 0.53 x 9 inches

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L. D. Rafey

A Veritable Life-Saver

Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2018

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Familia Romana: a veritable life-saver for those who have struggled with “dead” languages. I struggled with Latin for six years … I used to refer to them as my ‘days as a Roman slave’ between grades 7 and 12. I then went on to struggle with Ancient Greek … an even more challenging language when I studied the Classics prior to ultimately switching to the Sciences. I gleaned enough of both to serve me now and again but not well enough to satisfy my unfulfilled need to read fluently (in their own words) those thoroughly insightful writings handed down from a most curious people devoted as they were to the close examination of life and the experience of living. My take on learning ancient languages (and languages in general) is that it provides a window into the workings of the collective Human mind as well as of the very structure of language; what precisely language is, how it evolved, how it works and why it is so utterly essential to humanity. Such learning, no matter how primitive, provides a wonderful way in which to enrich one’s own language; to be able to expand one’s ability to express even the most elusive of concepts. If there is any experience that truly simulates what is expressed by the word: ‘magic’, F.R. is it! I knew it as soon as I began to tackle this wonderfully well considered work of love and dedication. What an enormous switch from the old days! One quite literally glides along with the reading, somehow absorbing the meaning with only marginal effort. After only a single reading of section one, I quite surprisingly began to hear, unconsciously, echoes of the phrases in the background of my thoughts while preparing coffee. So weird for someone who was never able to elicit a single word of Latin on command, even after having drilled for hours! There is plenty of repetition and clues galore and very well chosen grammatical cues at the margins. Yes, there is an occasional word that just doesn’t quite make sense, even in context but they seem relatively rare. For once, I found that I was no longer making any effort at mental translation. The meaning becomes quite clear as you read. The illustrations are helpful as well, of course. The sections do start out like a ‘Dick, Jane & Sally’ reader but rather swiftly increases in complexity. My background in Latin has been only vaguely helpful in that I know the difference between Nominative and Accusative, Genitive, etc. but, in fact, knowing one’s grammar is non-essential in this regard as you are actually learning on the fly, much as you did when learning to speak your native tongue, before you were forced to absorb the rules of the road. There is also “A College Companion”. I did purchase this item but it would best serve those who have virtually no background in Latin. Never-the-less, I have found it somewhat handy for an occasional clarification of this or that detail and it also happens to contain a Latin-to-English Vocab, which I have only rarely used just to confirm what I had already assumed. It’s all a matter of one’s brain making the correct inferences; something that most everyone does unconsciously while picking up one’s native language or when immersed in the language while living in a foreign country as a way of internalizing linguistic responses. And then, there is the marvelous MP3 recorded in the Classic style Familia Romana: Latine Audio by Hans Orberg himself : https://www.amazon.com/Familia-Romana-Hans-H-Orberg/dp/B0084LQGFA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537112405&sr=8-1&keywords=familia+romana+audio This makes enunciation absolutely clear as he reads word-for-word each section of the manual in fluent but concise Latin. There is an alternate version that is recorded by students in the Ecclesiastical style but it contains any number of problems. I refer to the ‘Ecclesiastic style’ as a non-colloquial, specified allusion to the Gospel while the ‘Classic’ version appears to be more closely associated with a more conversational style of Latin communication. But it comes down, in the end, to personal taste. I am looking forward to the second volume of the lessons and am already at work with the Polis version of the same for Ancient Greek but which I’m finding to be not quite as satisfying and a bit more work-intensive.

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Kristopher Gates

it is clever and brilliant. I'm someone who started Latin late in life ...

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2016

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I can't give this book anything other than five stars. If you are wanting to learn Latin as a living language, this is THE book. I cannot emphasize this enough. There is no other book you should be considering for the method this book uses, and within the terms of that method, it is clever and brilliant.

I'm someone who started Latin late in life as my college language requirement, using Wheelock's and the grammar first approach. I feel like I would not have had success in learning the Orberg way without that formal grammar background, but that is my own sentiment.

The order in which this book thinks about and uses Latin in combination with a clever and cumulative approach to its storytelling is a lovely thing, and if you are interested in this book and familiar with its goal of teaching Latin with Latin, get it. It's a lovely primer.

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Drake

Excellent Pedagogy but Lacking Interface!

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2015

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I have previously studied Wheelock's Latin and progressed through 2/3 of the text by myself. It is a great instruction method for laying a foundation in classical latin. Since I immersed myself in writing, reading, and speaking it aloud I made a very strong connection and retained much of what I learned. However, I like the pedagogical approach this book offers and decided to purchase it: speaking repetition is the next best thing to having actual conversations.

My only complaint is that since I downloaded it for use on my Kindle Fire 7 via the cloud reader the features are seriously lacking. Primarily because the text does not rotate for wide screen viewing and because of this the text is incredibly small. The plain reading text is a slight strain and the side information or words and definitions are mostly unreadable except in the most favorable of lighting situations. I'm not sure if all these problems are due to the fact that it wasn't actually formatted for my version of Kindle Fire 7. IMHO, if your going to make an ebook available and charge money for it take into account your customers and achieve an acceptable degree of functionality so that it actually makes more sense to purchase it an ebook version as opposed to a printed version.

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Ray

WOW. Start reading and understanding and even speaking instantly.

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2018

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This book is a real achievement. You pick it up and from the first page you can read and understand latin. There are some labelled illustrations as in a kid's book, but it's a lot of Dick and Jane type simple sentences at first, and they just keep adding vocabulary and show the endings of the words switching in different contexts, showing rather than telling that adjectives and verbs agree with subjects, gender, etc. There are lots of little notes in the margins that are helpful too, all super intuitive. Fill in the blank quizzes at the end of each Chapter. For pronunciation, I've heard there are other guides that go with this, but I downloaded audio files for 99 cents per chapter that come in either classical and church latin pronunciations, and then you know pronunciation too and can read along to practice or make up your own Latin sentences. I use this with my son who is 8 and he's able to follow along no problem.

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DAVID

Engaging, ingenious, stimulating - I can't praise it too highly.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2019

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I don't write reviews for everything I buy on Amazon but this one merits good publicity because it is excellent. I have learned a number of languages and used a lot of language course books in my time but this is the best, the most stimulating and the most enjoyable to use that I have come across in any language.
What I like about it is that while many Latin primers tend to end up with you learning about Latin, which is not the same as learning Latin, Familia Romana (Lingua Latina), in contrast, has you immersed in using the language from the outset. This is partly because it is entirely in Latin with no recourse to translation - instead guiding the reader with illustrations and Latin to Latin hints and explanations - and also because it is not packed full of tables of declensions and inflexions but introduces these by gradual use of the language itself in genuinely amusing tales from daily Roman life. As you are guided through the inflexions by this means patterns emerge that you don't spot by staring at endless grammatical tables and explanations. When you think about it, that is how we learn languages naturally. No toddler sits down and looks at a verb table; they listen and use the language and get the patterns by demonstration and use rather than explicit explanation. That is the approach this book takes too, and, for me, it works wonders.
Another feature that I initially had my doubts about, but now appreciate, is that there is no separate section with the correct answers to the questions. You do the exercises and can find the correct answers in the text. This keeps you checking back through the text and in that way learning a lot more than you would by just looking up the answers in the back. It's more stimulating and keeps the book lighter too - such ergonomics in book design matter to me.
The result is that you end up learning Latin, not just about it. And that is, essentially, what I love about this book. It engages the student to the full and I am so enthused by this approach that I want to spread the word.
Just one thing I would point out for the sake of balance however: my own use of the book is complemented by being fluent in one or two Latin based languages already and also by having all those other lesser latin primers I tried out before finding this one, plus a Latin dictionary, to hand as study aids. So I am not using the book entirely on its own. On the other hand, Familia Romana is the base for my Latin studies while the other primers are no more than occasional aids in using it.
In conclusion, I can't praise this book enough and I hope many readers of this review will be encouraged to try it out, just as I was by other positive Amazon reviews.

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Alexandre

Awful Kindle Edition - not worth the High Price!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2020

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I paid a large amount for this Kindle edition. However, it is not anything more than a bad scan of a book. The page is quite small and there is nothing you can do to make it bigger. You cannot change page, font or line size, you cannot magnify the image. In addition, there is a half-line on each page that is squashed, as if it had been moved during scanning. Very difficult to read comfortably, and definitely not worth the price in its current state. Extremely disappointed! I feel I have been taken advantage of!

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Bobl

Great for learning Latin - but also buy a dictionary

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2018

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I just wanted to add my own 5 star review for this brilliant book. I think it's important to note that there's no English text, explanations, or vocabulary in the book - it's 100% in Latin. When you encounter a new word then there's sometimes an image in the margin, or the margin might give a hint that the word is a synonym/antonym of a previously encountered word, or sometimes you just have to guess the meaning from the context. If you forget the meaning of a word, then the glossary at the back will direct you to the page where it's first encountered, but then you might need to work the meaning again from the context. So, I think it's best if you use this book in conjunction with a separate Latin-English dictionary, or on-line access to Wiktionary.

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william nixon

A superb Latin Learner but an awful Kindle!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2019

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The book is the best Latin tutorial I have I have ever read. The Kindle however is the worst I have ever purchased!
It continually refreshes and it is impossible to highlight passages. Very disappointed, especially as it is the most expensive Kindle I have bought so far. Al my other Kindles from Amazon work perfectly well, but not this one.

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Edgar Alberto de Melo Azevedo

"LIBER IN MENSA EST" The Book is on the table

Reviewed in Brazil on August 4, 2020

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Procurei um método para aprender novos idiomas e me deparei com o método natural. LINGVA LATINA é uma coleção perfeita pra aprender latim através do método natural.

O livro inteiro funciona te proporciando situações do quotidiano Romano e paulatinamente acrescentando novas palavras ao vocabulário de modo bastante gradual e de fácil entendimento. A curva de aprendizagem é suave e muito efetiva.

Eu gosto de utiliza-lo junto com o Gramática Latina do Napoleão Mendes de Almeida, que apesar de ser um livro muito técnico (muito bom para modular o aprendizado) tem deficiência na forma de ensinar situações e mensagens simples.

É como uma aula de português. O LINGVA LATINA vai te carregar no colo em todos os passos da compreensão e produção do latim. Como se fosse o processo de AQUISIÇÃO da linguagem do dia dia de qualquer lingua nativa. Mas uma boa Gramática vai te modular a forma correta, culta, não coloquial, não vulgar de produzir o idioma de forma oral e escrita.

O LINGVA LATINA não exigem dicionário para o aprendizado pois todo vocábulo é explicado através de imagens, repetição, símbolos e diferentes situações, todas dentro de um contexto. Apesar disso eu tenho dicionário, que utilizo minimamente, para reforçar.

A propósito o livro é totalmente escrito em Latim de cabo a rabo. Todas as explicações são em latim de forma a te fazer pensar como um falante de língua latina, exempli gratia: "nullum = non unum" (nenhum = não um), "adest = hic est" (presente = aqui está/está aqui).