Beginners' Latin

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 4

This is a course of Latin language for complete beginners. Teaching will be based on a combination of grammar and translation, allowing you to understand the inner workings of the language and providing you with the necessary tools to read and translate simple passages.

There will be new grammar points to be learned every week, as well as translation practice and simple English into Latin composition.

Coursebooks

• Jones, P.V. and Sidwell, K.C., Reading Latin: Text (Cambridge University Press, 1986).
• Jones, P.V. and Sidwell, K.C., Reading Latin: Vocabulary, Grammar and Exercises (Cambridge University Press, 1986).

General reading

• Goldman, N. and Szymanski, L., English Grammar for Students of Latin (2004).
• Kennedy’s Revised Latin Primer (Longman, 1965).
• Morwood, J., A Latin Grammar (Oxford University Press, 1999).
• Morwood, J., The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2005).