Cambridge Latin course
by Cambridge School Classics Project · first published 1998
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As an aside, I'd like to recommend to people the Cambridge Latin Course (https://www.cambridgescp.com/) This was the course I followed learning Latin in school. Whilst it may be tailored more towards a school audience, much of the content of their books is available for…
on “Show HN: A Latin self study course, Khan Academy-style” ↗…am usually a far cry from Indiana Jones. (I do have a moderately extensive selection of pretentious phrases in Latin that I can deploy when necessary.) We used Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer and The Cambridge Latin Course at school; I think the latter starts pretty much from the basics, and the former covers probably all of the grammar you'd ever need to know. I think you can get some of the Harry Potter books in Latin,…
on “The Vatican's Latinist” ↗"pulcher" is a fairly elementary piece of Latin vocab. It's in Book I of the Cambridge Latin Course, for example. This is much the same in other courses. So anyone, Indian or not, who has done basic Latin in school is likely to have encountered it and hence be aware of "pulchritude". * https://www.dl.cambridgescp.com/dl_course/book-i…
on “Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code” ↗Having learnt Latin through the Cambridge Latin Course I really struggled with reading the classics. That said, I could understand all but three words on the Bayeux tapestry so Cambridge Latin Course was reasonable.
on “Speaking Latin” ↗Caecilius who, spoiler for a decades old Latin textbook, dies when Vesuvius erupts, is from the Cambridge Latin Course. The dog, who survives, is in fact named Cerberus.
on “LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo” ↗