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This is a preview being lesson one from the audio course made to accompany D'Ooge's Latin for Beginners, available on the Latinum store.

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This Preview consists of the introduction to the course, and the first lesson.
Latinum's re-issue in audio of Underwood's course in Latin for Medical Students is a unique offering. Underwood wrote his course for medical students taking the Latin examinations at London's Guild of Apothecaries. These students, as non-Latin specialists, required a more common-sense approach than was found in textbooks intended for Classicists. The result is a very accessible beginner's Latin course. It would also be useful as a revision course for the more seasoned student, as it approaches the subject from a fresh angle.

Underwood wrote his course for the home school student - but advises of the need to find a Latin teacher who can teach pronunciation - the audio course supplies this requisite.

As the vocabulary and examples are drawn from Latin medical and chemical texts, much of this material will be somewhat familiar to the prospective student. This reduces the apparent strangeness of the language, and makes the course somewhat more accessible to a non specialist wishing to learn some Latin. Needless to say, the course here outlined should be of great value to a student of medicine or pharmacology.

Latinum's audio course covers the entire grammar as laid out by Underwood, and the Latin syntax. Underwood, in his introduction, makes a very important observation; it is, he says, vitally important to read - so get your hands on an interlinear text, and start to read, or listen to bilingual Latin texts provided by Latinum for this purpose - for we are thoroughly in agreement with Mr Underwood with regard to this point: a large volume of reading is an absolute necessity if certain progress is to be made in the aquisition of the language.


Underwood's Medical Latin Course comprises three parts:
1. Latin Grammar.
2. Various exercises in building sentences.
3. Latin Syntax.
4. Forms of Prescriptions

The pagination of the book reverts to page one half way through.
The Audio readings ( lectiones) are numbered from 001 to 061
The Introduction is in lectio 001
The Grammar commences in lectio 002
Exercises commence in lectio 035
The Syntax - read in Latin and English, each example twice repeated - commences in lectio 046
Forms of Prescriptions - read in Latin only - are in lectio 60 and 61

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Ecce liber in 'librigoogle'
http://books.google.com/books?id=tGs7AAAAYAAJ

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WELCOME TO Latinum, Latin language learning podcast from London.

- OVER 5,000,000 AUDIO FILES DOWNLOADED SINCE MAY 2007-

" Example before the rule" is a great principle of language learning. Viva voce methods save time, rules are grasped more quickly. Systematic use of viva voce Latin leads to rapidly gaining the required intuitive familiarity with Latin sentence construction, and the learning of correct vowel quantity from the beginning. Vocabulary is learned in a more natural way. The intention is to use the resources offered here to get good enough to actually get to think in the language, to live in it. This is the Renaissance Method.

The recorded lessons from Adler's Textbook, " A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language" form the core of the podcast. Adler's book can be downloaded for free from Google Books, who especially re-scanned this important textbook for us.

The podcast also contains a large amount of additional learning material, and has an associated YouTube channel.


Vale.

Evan Millner
London


Many thanks to the following individuals and organisations for appearing (listed in no particular order) on this Podcast:
The Cambridge University Press;
The University of Canterbury, New Zealand;
University of California, Los Angeles;
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles;
Swarthmore College, Department of Classics;
Stephen Daitz (Sorgll);
Robert Sonkowsky (Sorgll);
Wakefield Foster (Sorgll);
ISTA;
Jeroen de Ost;
Cantantor;
Lucio Amadeo Ranierio;
Lorna Robinson, Iris Project;
Ruben Sitto;
Hefyd;
Melissa Foundation;
Charles Umiker;
Iohannes Alatius;
Brad Walton;
Charlie McNamara.

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WELCOME TO Latinum, Latin language learning podcast from London.

- OVER 5,000,000 AUDIO FILES DOWNLOADED SINCE MAY 2007-

" Example before the rule" is a great principle of language learning. Viva voce methods save time, rules are grasped more quickly. Systematic use of viva voce Latin leads to rapidly gaining the required intuitive familiarity with Latin sentence construction, and the learning of correct vowel quantity from the beginning. Vocabulary is learned in a more natural way. The intention is to use the resources offered here to get good enough to actually get to think in the language, to live in it. This is the Renaissance Method.

The recorded lessons from Adler's Textbook, " A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language" form the core of the podcast. Adler's book can be downloaded for free from Google Books, who especially re-scanned this important textbook for us.


Vale.

Evan Millner
London


Many thanks to the following individuals and organisations for appearing (listed in no particular order) on this Podcast:
The Cambridge University Press;
The University of Canterbury, New Zealand;
University of California, Los Angeles;
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles;
Swarthmore College, Department of Classics;
Stephen Daitz (Sorgll);
Robert Sonkowsky (Sorgll);
Wakefield Foster (Sorgll);
ISTA;
Jeroen de Ost;
Cantantor;
Lucio Amadeo Ranierio;
Lorna Robinson, Iris Project;
Ruben Sitto;
Hefyd;
Melissa Foundation;
Charles Umiker;
Iohannes Alatius;
Brad Walton;
Charlie McNamara.

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Search Google for "Corderii Willymot"
This edition of Corderius' colloquia by Willymot has useful English notes.

The colloquia are largely different to those presented in the English-Latin versions I have recorded heretofore.

There are now a couple of scans of Willymot's edition of Corderius available on Google Books, and I believe there is now one on archive.org as well. Some of the scans are from earlier imprints of the book, and so the typeface is clearer.

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