Required Materials for "Let's Learn Latin 2010"

Each student is responsible for purchasing his/her own books. Three are required:

1. Lingua Latina: Part I, Familia Romana.  This is the textbook/reader. Entirely composed in Latin, Part I, Familia Romana, provides an excellent introduction to Latin, including the essentials of Latin grammar and a basic vocabulary of over 1500 words. The thirty-five chapters describe the life of a Roman family in the 2nd century A.D., and culminate 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 lectiones (lessons) of a couple pages each followed by a grammar section, Grammatica Latina, and three exercises or Pensa. Hans Ørberg’s impeccable Latinity, humorous stories, and the Peer Lauritzen illustrations make this work a classic. The book includes a table of inflections, a Roman calendar, and a word index, Index vocabulorum. (Note: this is available in either paperback or hardback -- your choice.) [Amazon price: $11.90 paper, $16.47 hardbound]
2.  Exercitia Latina I. This will be used for written homework exercises, to help you begin to practice what was covered in class. This book contains an extensive collection of exercises—entirely composed in Latin—for the 133 lectiones in Part I: Familia Romana. An important tool which every student will profit from and enjoy. [Amazon price: $7.93]
3. Latine Disco: Student’s Manual. This student’s manual is written in English with a guide to pronunciation, instructions and information on key points to be noted in each chapter. In class, we will try to recognize how grammatical constructions work in the context of our reading, while this manual will provide more explicit discussion of what we have gone over in class. [Amazon price: $6.00]

If you would like to buy these required texts from Amazon (the best price I've found), just click the Course Materials link in the right sidebar on this page, and then select each of the books marked as "required" to add it to your online shopping cart. The price of the three books together will qualify your purchase for free shipping (min. $25).

You will see a couple of other suggested items in the Amazon list, but you need not buy them now (or ever).