A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin: Newly Revised for Wheelock's 6th Edition | 
|  | | | Title: | A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin: Newly Revised for Wheelock's 6th Edition | | Author: | Dale A. Grote | | Publisher: | Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 January, 2001 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 086516486X / 9780865164864 | | List Price: | $39.00 | | You Save: | $3.90 | | Amazon Price: | $35.10 | |
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This study guide to accompanies the 6th edition (pub. 2000) of a standard introductory Latin text, Wheelock's Latin. This guide expands and explains important grammatical concepts that the Wheelock text presents too briefly for many contemporary students. The guide can also be used to review beginning Latin.Also available: Readings From Wheelock's Latin Audio CD - ISBN 0865166382
Vocabulary Cards and Grammatical Forms Summary for Wheelock's Latin - ISBN 0865165572
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Customer Reviews:
• You Need It! 30 July, 2007
I started with Wheelock on its own; great book, but something was missing: Grote's book! Most latin textbooks try to break down the material in segments and a sequence that that the author(s) find the most educational. Still, all textbooks have a common disadvantage: you have to memorize the inflections without being given the underlying logic.
Grote's book does that. You still have to memorize but knowing all the why's lets the how's stick.
Furthermore, if you are weak in grammar and syntax, it also covers that gap by reviewing everything using ENGLISH examples and then jumping into latin.
Now, I am going through Latin: An Intensive Course. I still refer to Grote (something that would be impossible if you did not go through Wheelock first. Anyway Wheelock is the way to get going in the beginning).
Grote's coverage of the 3 and 4 conjugations is superb: it is made really simple while traditionally this topic is truly hard. This part is worth the value of the whole book, but you get a lot more.
- Reviewed by customer ID: ALXJRQC9JZ6BG
• Valuable Tool 07 February, 2008
My homeschooled eighth-grader and I have found this book very helpful as an adjunct to Wheelock's 6th edition. Grote untangles the knotty topics of Wheelock's 6th edition, not just chapter by chapter, but virtually subtopic by subtopic. His explanations are clear, and his writing is amusing and engaging.
My only criticism is that he gives the answers to only "selected" exercises. This does seem to mean most of them--but why not all of them?
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1GISRKWFJ6W5N
• A Latin 'teacher' Who Holds Your Hand 20 July, 2007
This is a very helpful adjunct to studying Wheelock's Latin solo. Although I have 45 years experience studying foreign languages [at least 10, including 4 different alphabets] and have tutored Latin successfully for years, Grote still provides helpful hints for studying and digesting the Latin grammar and vocabulary. So, if I find this helpful, I expect someone new to Latin would find this book invaluable!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1EEJGQXSRQS0J
• Let There Be Light 12 March, 2007
I've been trying to teach myself Latin off and on for years and I purchased the Wheelock book and workbook recently at the suggestion of my brother, a scholar of Latin and Greek. The books are awesome and well written but I often found myself in the dark about grammar and declensions etc. I've always asssumed it's because I'm a bit of a dullard. Dullard I may be but Grote's book shed light on things that were really vexing to me. Grote explains in a few sentences why I've had so much trouble looking up words in a Latin/English dictionary. His explanations also lit up the dark dusty recesses of my memories of Junior High School grammar lessons. I had thought that I was being indulgent and scatter-shot in purchasing a such an expensive book just to aid me with Wheelock (which is beautifully and elegantly realized.) I must say that this book is priceless- Mr. Grote is a good humored, amusing, practical and wonderful instructor. This book is a must-have for the auto-didact.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AYIHXC36P0JKB
• Not That Useful 12 August, 2007
I studied Latin a long time ago and picked up Wheelock's. I added this book as an impulse buy based on some feedback. I find it adds nothing at all to the information in Wheelock. A lot of the suggestions are trite and much of the content is condescending.
I can see that this book might be useful to one who lacks background in grammar in general (not specifically Latin grammar) and would benefit from context for parts of sentences. For anyone with a high school or higher education, it's likely useless.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1X8ARNHI74O9H
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