Read this word out loud: natio. You have just read Latin - and you already know what it means.English borrowed thousands of words from Latin, and the endings changed in a handful of predictable ways. Once you know that -tion becomes -tio, -ty becomes -tas and -al becomes -alis, hundreds of Latin words open up at once. No memorising phrase lists. No declension tables before you can read a single line.Latin Shortcut turns that pattern into a course.Inside this book: Chapter-by-chapter conversion rules, from -tio to -alis Word Vaults holding around 6,000 recognisable Latin words, grouped by ending and marked with macrons A pronunciation gym in every chapter, with the stressed syllable shown Translation drills, so every rule is used and not just read False-friend warnings, so a familiar ending never misleads you A topic vocabulary chapter: family, food, travel, work, numbers Who it is for: beginners starting Latin, adults returning to it years after school, readers of ecclesiastical and classical texts, and anyone building vocabulary alongside a grammar course.Put away the tables. Start reading Latin words today.
Read this word out loud: natio. You have just read Latin - and you already know what it means.English borrowed thousands of words from Latin, and the endings changed in a handful of predictable ways. Once you know that -tion becomes -tio, -ty becomes -tas and -al becomes -alis, hundreds of Latin words open up at once. No memorising phrase lists. No declension tables before you can read a single line.Latin Shortcut turns that pattern into a course.Inside this book: Chapter-by-chapter conversion rules, from -tio to -alis Word Vaults holding around 6,000 recognisable Latin words, grouped by ending and marked with macrons A pronunciation gym in every chapter, with the stressed syllable shown Translation drills, so every rule is used and not just read False-friend warnings, so a familiar ending never misleads you A topic vocabulary chapter: family, food, travel, work, numbers Who it is for: beginners starting Latin, adults returning to it years after school, readers of ecclesiastical and classical texts, and anyone building vocabulary alongside a grammar course.Put away the tables. Start reading Latin words today.
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