OSSA Latinitatis Sola / The Mere Bones of Latin: Ad Mentem Reginaldi Rationemque / According to the Thought and System of Reginald - Couverture souple

Foster, Reginaldus Thomas; McCarthy, Daniel Patricius

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813228328 ISBN 13 : 9780813228327

Editeur : The Catholic University of America Press, 2016

Synopsis

From the first encounter with the Latin language to it full presentation, the objective of Ossa Latinitatis Sola is to get people into immediate contact with and understanding of genuine Latin authors, and for these encounters to grow into a love and use of the entire language in all its literary types and periods of time and authors of the past 2,300 years.

By eliminating terminology and complicated introductions to the language, we emphasize what things mean, not what they are called, how the language functions, not artificial rules, so that people may have immediate access to real solid, natural Latin which they can then imitate and use.

Reginald Foster's method of teaching the Latin language is the result of over forty years of helping people in Rome to grow fast and solidly in the knowledge, use and appreciation of Latin by anticipating their questions and preempting their future problems. The complications and obscurities of certain other methods are hereby necessarily avoided.

Outsiders will discover that Latin is supremely teachable and loveable and that every fear and terror about the so called insurmountable difficulties of Latin are non-existent and that its destination for only whiz-kids is sheer nonsense. Students will find clear explanations given in narrative form to be grasped and absorbed even in the comfort of a beach chair. Teachers will find the logical reasons why Latin functions as it does and consequently a ready instrument for teaching and a fresh method for communicating with students, supporting everyone in the learning process.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Reginaldus Thomas Foster is an American Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. He formerly worked in the "Latin Letters" section of the Secretariat of State in the Vatican and was the Papal Latinist from 1969-2009. He continues to teach Latin classes at his own school in Milwaukee.

Daniel Patricius McCarthy, a student of Foster's, is a monk at St. Benedict's Abbey in Atchison, Kansas, and teaches Latin in London and Rome.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Catholic University of America Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813228328
• ISBN 13: 9780813228327
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 736
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible