Nunc Loquamur: Guided Conversations for Latin (Latin Edition) Second Edition

This is a well organized introduction to conversational Latin, a branch of Latin instruction harking back to the early Middle Ages. Fortunately, our age has recognized the value of teaching Latin as a living, spoken language. This book accomplishes this through graded conversations that introduce very basic and important vocabulary. The Appendices are a great addition, in particular, Appendix III, which includes not only very basic words but also many, many useful phrases, as well as Appendix VI (Grammar Notes), which provides a wealth of clarifications in the matter of parsing. Starting with this student-friendly book and then proceeding to Traupman's "Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency" can provide a working knowledge of the innards of Latin, its basic nouns and verbs, its adverbs and prepositions, and the way to use them in real life. If you are interested in Latin as a language, you will find this book very appealing and useful. And you can rest assured that the knowledge acquired through it will serve you well when you tackle the literary treasures of this immortal language.

This is nearly perfect for the Introductory Latin classroom.Pros: The illustrations are perfect, especially as learning tools and contextual tools. The conversations increase in length at a reasonable pace. The ability for students to make their own conversation in a similar vein is awesome.Cons: Use of grammar and vocabulary is all over the place. Depending on your school's curriculum, you may need to supplement ending information earlier than expected. However, the grammar and vocabulary is more or less intuitive for the student who pays attention to every small detail. Most students, without help, can muddle through the grammar and vocabulary well enough.Overall, I am so glad I stumbled upon this supplement. It has done wonders in my classroom. Students are talking. They are communicating. Their fear of Latin composition is diminished and they are more comfortable making mistakes.

This isn't Forum, Palestra, Latine Loqui, Parlare Latino oggi, or anything like that, but it's decent for what it aims to do; not nearly as ample (or correct) as Traupman, but still ok.

I have this as a "go-to" resource at my school.At first I got it because it does exactly what I NEEDED very badly to liven up my Latin lessons. Easy, everyday immediately useful conversations. It supplements my textbook (a reading based approach, and for other levels a grammar intensive course) very well.Now, why is it a "life saver"? I caught a cold. It happens. A sub took my lessons. Of course, the sub doesn't know any Latin. All I had to do was say, "Have the students practice units 15 and 16. The audio is on the web. Present in pairs. Write and memorize a new variation to present when I return."I don't know of any other Latin resource that I could entrust a sub to do that with. After this experience, I downloaded all the audio files from the author's web page and made an audio CD for just these occasions.Now, at the beginning of each school year, when the principal asks us to submit a emergency lessons for substitute teachers I merely print out the above instructions. Q.E.D. I'm done.Oh, and this new edition is even better. LIFE SAVER!

Its a nice little manual for beginner conversational Latin. I would have liked the appendix to have recordings to go with it, but it appears most texts out there have no recordings for appendixes. I will be using this as an additional resources for my elementary Latin class.

Excelent material for dinamic course. It permit an use practic of latin language

I had been looking for a book like this that can easily be used in classes and focuses on short and simple conversations that students can practice with small variations each time.I'm teaching some small medium and small groups in my home and this book makes it easy to accomplish a new goal every class. The art work is quirky too, so they like it's unique style and simple lessons. The explanations are plain and simple so that the students can practically teach them selves.After studying the lessons in the book we try to put them to use in other situations while practicing with each other.I'm waiting to see what the next book will be like.

I got turned on to this text with the first edition. This new one has fixed the errata of the first edition and added a lot more material. Same easy to use format which set it apart from other Latin conversation texts. I hope there will be a 3rd edition.