St. Jerome Church Latin, Volume 1

This textbook presents to the student the basic grammar and exercises of Church Latin. It is compiled from many classic and out-of-print sources, used in Catholic schools before the reforms of the Vatican Council II. Each lesson, after explaining the grammar, gives the student exercises to translate. The book has full Latin-English vocabulary which gives the meaning of every word used in the course of the lessons, and a summary of all the conjugations, declensions and pronouns at the...
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This textbook presents to the student the basic grammar and exercises of Church Latin. It is compiled from many classic and out-of-print sources, used in Catholic schools before the reforms of the Vatican Council II. Each lesson, after explaining the grammar, gives the student exercises to translate. The book has full Latin-English vocabulary which gives the meaning of every word used in the course of the lessons, and a summary of all the conjugations, declensions and pronouns at the end. As bonus material, the book also gives reading lessons, meant to offer practice to the student with the pronunciation of the Latin language, and also presents some classic Latin proverbs and phrases.

This textbook can be used together with proper workbook and answer key. The workbook presents all the same exercises from the textbook in an attractive, illustrated and well-laid out manner. As an optional material, the textbook also presents The Little Office of the Holy Cross, which can be used as the child's first Latin prayerbook.