Amo, Amas, Amat and More: How to Use Latin to Your Own Advantage and to the Astonishment of Others (Hudson Group Books)

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In the last chapter, the author discusses the lack of interest in latin and the classics in contemporary culture.

Britain is such a bizarre country (and I say this with a mixture of feelings, including nostalgia) that this kind of products can coexist with, say, the films of Ken Loach. While Harry Mount's engaging little Latin primer isn't likely to be much help to those for whom hic, haec, hoc is the result of a night in the pub, it will succeed in reminding the 'Latin lovers' of its subtitle just how elegant and versatile the language is. The fact that such upper class twatness can still sell in a country of chavs and council states is a matter of profound puzzlement for me and, may I add, joy at the fact that I have left such strange place once and for all.

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I'm a partially-homeschooling mother of six -- 3 boys ages 19, 17 and 15 years old, and three girls: 11, 8, and 3. Cannily bringing in the usual jokey Latinist suspects, from Willans and Searle's Molesworth to John Cleese's irate centurion-cum-schoolmaster in The Life of Brian, Mount makes a good case for knowing a little Latin. I think it is sad that Latin persists in being a subject which is only taught at a small number of schools, and year by year that small number gets even smaller. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site.We give people around the world the opportunity to contribute to the circular economy, earn money and protect the planet, by trading their unwanted books and media. Or , to put it another way , latin provided cultural continuity for many generations in Western Europe. Our current partner charities in the UK are READ International, the National Literacy Trust, Room to Read.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. once put into context with the rest of the sentences around it, it translates a bit like this: others, i believe truly, shall with softer mould beat out the breathing bronze, coax from the marble features to the life. And it expanded my English Vocabulary enormously…plus it made me able to figure out the meaning of words if they had a Latin Root….It won't be any help at all if you don't knw any Latin - the explanations are nowehere near clear enough - but if you have done some Latin its a fun way to remind yourself of it.