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This reader of Virgil's text features passages from the second half
of the Aeneid and is designed to help students understand and
appreciate Virgil's poem, as well as improve their Latin reading
skills. Each Latin passage is accompanied by running vocabulary,
on-page commentary notes and targeted questions. The book can be
used as a source of one-off unseen passages or as a reader for
students working through individual books or the whole poem. The
commentary notes explain references to characters, places and
events, provide linguistic and grammatical help on more challenging
Latin phrases, and point out stylistic features. The questions test
students' comprehension of the characters and storyline, and give
them practice in handling literary terms. The passages are linked
by summaries of the continuing plot, so students can grasp the
progression of the poem as a whole. An introduction sets the story
of the Aeneid in its mythological, literary and historical context
and includes a glossary of literary devices and essays explaining
the principles of Virgil's word order and metre. At the end of the
book is a complete alphabetical vocabulary list.
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fun and easy way to quickly enhance basic Italian reading skills
This bestselling program is based on the premise that the easiest
way to learn a new language is to start reading it immediately.
Easy Italian Reader features a series of engaging readings that
progress in difficulty allowing you to build comprehension rapidly
and efficiently. You'll read about the adventures of two high
school students and their Italian club; discover episodes from the
colorful history of Italy; and finally, move on to abridged
adaptations of contemporary short stories Volevo i pantaloni,Le
luci di Roma, and Vita. Whether you are an absolute beginner or an
intermediate language learner, this is great way to develop new
Italian language skills. This premium third edition is enhanced by
the McGraw-Hill Language Lap app and features: * Flashcards of all
glosses in the book * Audio recordings of all readings from the
book * Audio recordings of select post-reading exercises; if your
mobile device has the capability, you can record your own answer
and compare it against the native-speaker pronunciation
(Schott). Piano reduction of the score with vocal parts.
This second edition, like the earlier first edition, introduces
some of the main varieties of Chinese as found before and after the
establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. While
continuing to stress the basic importance of the traditional
usages, such as the regular characters to be found in all materials
published before the adoption of the simplified forms in 1956 and
still in use in some areas, the present revision goes further in
contrasting variant usages and in providing additional material
relevant to the PRC. Closely related with the author's Beginning
Chinese and its companion volume, Character Text for Beginning
Chinese, this text is based on a new approach which not only takes
into account the advantages of the oral-aural method but gets the
student more quickly into material that he is likely to encounter
in actual written Chinese. Unique features are the emphasis on
compounds and their extensive use in various types of exercises.
The 1,200 combinations are based on 400 characters; in all, the
book contains 120,000 characters of running text. All compounds
appear in illustrative sentences accompanied by English
translations, in dialogues as a means of audio-lingual
reinforcement, and in narrative or expository form. Additional
exercises include maps, booksellers' book lists, correspondence,
poems, table of contents, and brief passages from the works of
outstanding writers such as Sun Yatsen, Hu Shih, Mao Tse-tung, and
Lu Hsun. Supplementary lessons present reading material using the
simplified characters adopted in mainland China. To suit the needs
of the beginner, characters are introduced in large size, and
tables indicate the sequence of strokes used in their formation. In
addition to a pinyin index, there are three summary charts in which
the characters are arranged by lesson, by number of strokes, and by
radical. A fourth chart contrasts regular and simplified
characters; a fifth chart presents variant forms of the same
character. Because of the large characters and extensive material,
the book is issued in two volumes, Part I and Part II. This work
was supported by a contract with the United States Office of
Education.
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