Great Series to teach Latin in Middle and High School!

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	• Ecce Romani I: A Latin Reading Program : Meeting the Family Rome at Last Peter C. Brush, Sally Davis, ... Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews
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highly recommended

Takes the difficulty away from learning Latin

Latin has a reputation of being a difficult and dull language to learn. Most textbooks present it in a scholarly way, focusing on transaltions of the works of ancient authors, and not giving modern learners a connection to their lives. The Ecce Romani series presents Latin in an innovative and attractive way. Every chapter begins with a a painted color picture and short story (in latin) about a fictional Roman family made up of Cornelius-a senator, Aurelia-his wife, Marcus-son, Cornelia-daughter, and Sextus- a boy staying with them for a period of time. Each tale develops the family and other characters as well as showing aspects of daily life. All the new vocabulary (old vocab is sometimes included too) is included on the same page. If you have every studied a foreign language, you know how easy paragraphs are to read when you have all the English words on the same page. The 2 column list contains nouns, verbs, expressions, adverbs, etc. A new grammar concept is introduced after each story, and future stories continue to use it, so it is not forgotton. This way, the stories become more detailed (and interesting) as you progress.

On the pages after the story are also pictures, maps, and helpful excercises that furthur your understanding on the language and culture. In between most chapters are short and informative lessons about daily life, myths, history, among other things. (For example: "A Roman Family", "Aeneas", and "The Founding of Rome")

At the end of the book is an outline of all the grammar explored, complete with noun and verb charts. There is also a Latin to English, and English to Latin dictionary containing EVERY WORD in the stories plus their chapter number.

I would recomend this book to ANYONE interested in studying Latin, as I think it's the best book on the market. It's easy to learn with, colorful, tastefully put together (no tacky graphics and layouts typically employed in textbooks), and packed with maps and pictures. Try this out and soon you'll will have a thorough understanding of Latin!

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Good!

Text book received in good condition, however their was a delay in getting it. Next time will ask for express service.

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Excellent series

This is a very well-written textbook series. I took Latin I and II using this series, but I had to switch to the Cambridge Latin series for Latin III when I changed schools. Ecce Romani is a much better series than Cambridge. It contains many assets (such as an English-Latin AND Latin-English dictionary, multiple challenging practice exercises in each chapter, enjoyable stories, well-organized vocabulary sections in each chapter, etc.) necessary for the enjoyable and productive study of Latin which the Cambridge books lack. The Ecce Romani books are well organized and more enjoyable to learn from. I highly recommend this well-written series to everyone.

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Look! The Romans! I

I am currently a Latin 2 student in high school. We've been in this book since Latin 1 and are using it again this year because we didn't finish it last year. Anywho, I, unlike many of my classmates, have enjoyed this book (at least to some extent). It has been an excellent book to learn from, as long as you have a competant teacher. Latin is not an east language to learn.
The stories you have to translate in this book are somewhat interesting (some are more interesting than others). One thing I truly enjoyed about this book is that it has things like Roman Myths and Roman Life. You learn a lot about the Myths and the Roman way of life. I also enjoyed the artwork in the book. Especially the pieces that are from museums and the maps.
The book also has a VERY helpful appendix in the back. It has the Latin endings, a prounciation guide, and a mini-dictionary that is made up of the words that you learn during that year.

This is an excellent book if you are looking to learn Latin (or if you enjoy doing collages and need some pictures and maps and you can afford to spend a lot for something like this!).

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Great Series to teach Latin in Middle and High School!

The Ecce Romani series is particularly good for teaching Latin to 7th - 10th graders. The format is "kid-friendly" and provides enough interest to keep most kids motivated to move forward. The lessons are the story of a Roman family - Dad, Mom and son (Marcus) and daughter (Cornelia). The kids have various friends and we get to learn about the activities of their servants (and how the kids annoy them) and the various things the family does on its way to Rome. Each chapter is short - has a good number of new words - and many opportunities to translate. Lessons and activities are included for each chapter (declensions, cases, etc.) as well as interesting facts about Rome, the gods, way of life, etc. The back of the book contains a latin to english and english to latin vocabulary dictionary of words from the book. There is also a pretty decent pronunciation guide and an index indicating where particular grammar concepts can be found.

The series moves at a good pace but older high school students (starting latin in 10th or 11th grade) might find the stories in the first book tedius. If the program is started in 7th or 8th grade, this series is one of the best!

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