Wheelock's Latin

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1. eigenhombreJan 2025
   This is really nice, and I hope you continue with additional texts, as I have been trying once again to pick up Latin basics, using YouTube videos and Wheelock's Latin (which is one of the best foreign language books I've ever seen).

   It would be nice to be able to add the macrons or even acute accent characters to show emphasis syllables as another toggle-able option -- ChatGPT seemed to do OK with that task for me just now.

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2. HDMI_CableNov 2021
   Having learned Latin, this seems really useful, but only in conjunction with other resources; I would have loved to have this when I was learning. It would be cool though if different phrases/clauses are shown, as being able to divide long Latin sentences into their principal phrases really helps with learning.

   Recommendations for good resources along with this:

   - Wheelock's Latin: A grammar book. It's impossible to fully understand Latin without knowing the grammar, and this book is the best at doing that.

   - Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: A great book for learning how to read without translating. I would personally recommend reading the first ~15 chapters along with Wheelock, then skipping to the second book, at chapter ~40.

   - https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ An amazing collection of resources and texts, most of them a bit more advanced than OP's. https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/101 is also really useful for clearing lacunae for grammar.

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3. jan_InkepaSep 2021
   That and Wheelock's Latin are the main book recommendations. Other than that, there are a bunch of subreddits and a large discord which might be nice if you want to get some daily active practice in (including voice chat). Or just see if there are any courses running near you - active training can be handy, but the style of course is very country-specific - every country has their own tradition for teaching Latin (or multiple), and the style/goal may not suit you.

   It's super low-effort, but I had fun with the (modern) light novellas by Andrew Olympi and kin - in some sense they're too easy above a certain level and made me over-confident in a way that was damaging to my confidence when I looked at actual classical latin texts, on the other hand it's nice to just be able to pick up a small book and read some beginner-level Latin without requiring any effort/strain.

   [ note: I've only been learning Latin for about a year, with very mixed success - I'm very much a beginner still and can't read any classical texts with any fluency/comfort, nor write without a dictionary to help with inflections ]

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4. voldacarSep 2021
   I would recommend some combination of Lingua Latina and Wheelock's Latin. That's what my Latin tutor used and they complement each other very well.
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5. thankthunkMay 2018
   Sisper's Introduction to the Theory of Computation.

   Bible.

   Wheelock's Latin.

   Why don't we teach the bible and latin from kindegarten through college to our kids? I'm an atheist but I would have benefited from reading the bible and learning latin in elementary/high school. And I think intro to computation should be the first CS class taught in college.

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6. steauengeglaseFeb 2017
   K&R gets so much hell, but it's a good, raw back to basics text. It deserves a place on the shelf beside the ARRL Ham Radio License Manual, or Wheelock's Latin, or Lyman's Guide to Reloading, or The Joy of Cooking, or the Elements of Style. It's the programming book for Boy Scouts, a crude, but essential Swiss Army Knife --the great programming book for the post-Apocalypse.

   Also all of these are open source submissions.

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