{"product_id":"learning-latin-book-john-g-randall-9780905205335","title":"Learning Latin","description":"Latin is at the cultural and linguistic heart of Western Europe  and the Americas. Learning Latin offers senior school and adult  beginners access to this shared heritage. John Randall, over two  decades of teaching Latin to beginners at Lancaster University,  developed techniques to encourage a rapid grasp of Latin  sentence-construction without distortion of the natural Latin  word-order. The Learning Latin course evolved from his teaching  experience. He collaborated in the final stages of its development with two other experienced Latinists, Jonathan Foster  and Duncan Kennedy, who gave the course further rigorous testing  at Liverpool University.  The course uses only the real Latin of classical authors, both  prose and poetry, right from the very first sentence: homo hic ebrius est, from the comic playwright Plautus. Where (minimal) adaptations have been made to the Latin, this is signalled and  the original form given in an appendix. The grammatical  terminology is traditional, with the addition of two concepts  from modern linguistics - 'kernelling' and 'metaphrasing'. The  forms of nouns, adjectives, pronouns and verbs are listed in  tables.  Learning Latin  consists of 25 chapters, for each of which around two hours instruction is envisaged. Its aim is to enable  students to make sure progress in the structure of the language, so that after completing the course they can handle Latin prose  and simple Latin verse confidently with the aid of standard  reference works.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49636777623825,"sku":"GOR002612267","price":11.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50099337822481,"sku":"GOR003232607","price":11.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53209958940945,"sku":"GOR005125513","price":37.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0905205332.jpg?v=1751330782","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/fr-fr\/products\/learning-latin-livre-j-g-randall-9780905205335","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}