Excerpt from Beginning Latin
This book is dedicated to teachers of Latin who realize the importance of first-year work. Its aim is definitely to secure three things: first, mastery of forms; second, the nucleus of a working vocabulary; third, a grasp of the broad principles of the Latin sentence.
The method of the book has been guided by the modern belief that the acquisition of facts should be accompanied by immediate use of the knowledge gained. Accordingly, numerous short exercises arrest the attention of the pupil and demand his activity at every point of advance.
The detailed application of this principle of expression is most fully exemplified in the treatment of forms. The uses of the various elements are explained, and very many simple exercises in the building of paradigms introduced. This method is found to give a conscious mastery of inflections in much less time than under the old system of memorizing paradigms. In the case of the verb, the person-endings are first attacked, interlinear exercises being given in which all of the verb except the ending is supplied. Next, the present tenses of the four conjugations are exhibited together, and exercises are devised which focus the attention on the stem-vowel.
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