I've been enjoying browsing through Google Books now that more full-text books have been loaded to their site. For beginning Latin students, the Elementary Prose exercises can be fun practice or a useful place for finding quotes or phrases suitable for memory or copywork journals. By grouping short phrases under chapters such as comparisons, adjectives, verbs active or passive, this book can also help a child recognize common word groupings, a help for beginning translators.
For late beginner-intermediate students, the Latin Elegaic Verse book looked nifty- it has Latin elegies chosen for their ease of translating by relative beginners. The book includes "Verse Rules for Beginners" and hints for many of the poems for ways in which certain words could be translated.
Elementary Latin prose exercises - Google Books
Elementary Exercises in Latin Elegaic Verse
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ReplyDeleteGoogle Books is a goldmine for students of Latin.
I am using a book that can also be found on Google Books as the basis for the Latinum podcast:
http://latinum.mypodcast.com