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Title: Intensive Latin First Year & Review: A User's Manual by Carl A.P. Ruck, Carl A. P. Ruck ISBN: 0-89089-912-6 Publisher: Carolina Academic Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting approach
Comment: If you're trying to learn Latin on your own (as I am), you've probably experimented with different texts, looking for something that works.

Although Wheelock is my favorite for clarity, this book may work for you. He uses an interesting approach; the grammatical forms and structures that are most used by Latin writers are introduced early in the course. So you've got indirect speech in Lesson 1, and the subjunctive in lesson 2. Other less common structures (like the future tense) are not introduced until later lessons.

Definitely not the standard presentation, and kind of quirky, but there's an attractive logic to it. A big plus is the fact that there are a lot of drills and translation exercises, and the answers are given in the back of the book so you can check yourself.

Bottom-line, it's not for the faint of heart - you need a lot of stamina to stick with it, and a good deal of linguistic sophistication doesn't hurt. But the price is right, you get a lot of real Latin right off the bat, and the answers to the readings and exercises are there to help. I'm using it as a supplement to Wheelock, and I think it's doing me a lot of good. Try it!

Rating: 5
Summary: Carl Ruck was the best language teacher I have ever had.
Comment: Ruck taught me Greek;he was the best language teacher I hav ever had. Carl A.P. Ruck taught me Greek for three years at Boston University. He was the best language teacher I have ever had; I have taken courses in various foreign languages for 12 years at Boston University, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Fordham University, and the City University of New York. Ruck's methods are proven, modern, logical, unorthodox. The goal of an ancient language textbook is to allow the student to read the original texts as expediently and as well as possible; Ruck's textbooks accomplish this goal better than any other available. Having finished course work in elementary Greek and Latin, Ruck's textbooks are still valuable to the continuing student: they are clear and concise sources of reference - far more accessible to the intermediary student than the esoteric, highly advanced, and cumbersome Greek and Latin grammars which are typically thrust upon the student beyond the first and second years. Carl Ruck's textbooks are the ideal starting point for any student who wishes to truly learn the classical languages and they will remain a rich source from which to draw throughout the student's education.