Latin for the Illiterati: A Modern Guide to an Ancient Language

The amount of valuable information within this book is amazing, although this book may not go into the linguistic terminology as much as others, Latin for The Illiterati is one of the best starting point for reading, speaking, and writing "practical" Latin. Most of the information in the book is an introductory guide to useful Latin phrases, names, and grammar.

Very helpful. Teaching it will make it easy to have correct answers. Thanks.

Thank you!

Excellent reference guide

Good book. The author knows his business and and presents the material clearly.

Very satisfied.

I just happened to run across this book the other day, and have not put it down. It has relly given me a great way to look up phrases and termonology that I had been searching for. Please do not use the online translators, they are pure garbage and will not gine you the correct grammar or translation for the phrase you are looking for. This book does not have them all, but it does have many, many that you may have seen or heard over the years.I would recommend it for anyone who has an interest in Latin at all, or for the student of Latin who is starting out. You can increase your Latin vocabulary tremendously right now if you really wanted just by reading this book.A lot of fun and a must have.

Excellent experience

ラテン語の熟語，慣用語句，成句，略語，数詞，地名，暦の用語，主要な著作家一覧等がコンパクトにまとめられており，使い勝手が良いし，無目的に拾い読みしても楽しめる。羅和辞典・羅英辞典とこの本とは，車の両輪のような感じ。この種の「便覧」で日本で入手可能なものはちょっと他には見当たらないのでは。一見ペーパーブック風ながら装丁も丈夫で本文の紙質も上質で印刷も鮮明。末永く使用しても使い減りしそうになく，ラテン語に興味のある人にとって，手元に置いて決して損ではない一冊でしょう。欲を言えば，近視で老眼の身には小さな文字は疲れるので，文字が拡大できるKindle版もあるとうれしいのですが。

This is very much a dense reference volume really, for looking up phrases as and when you come across them. It's perhaps not quite so good as something to dip into like, for example, Morwood's  A Dictionary of Latin Words and Phrases  or Ehrlich's  A Dictionary of Latin Tags and Phrases  which, though having fewer entries, contain more supporting explanation. However if you're of a like mind with me you will still enjoy opening this at random and picking out a few phrases.The first half of the book lists common words and short expressions, and most of the second half is longer sayings from literary and other sources. It is finished off with a short section on abbreviations, a few other odds and sods, and a brief English-Latin index. Each Latin entry is accompanied by a simple translation with no further explanatory notes (except the name of the author where literary sources are involved).As well as this book, Jon Stone has also published a longer work specifically on maxims, proverbs, mottoes and quotations:  Dictionary of Latin Quotations . A Dictionary of Latin Words and PhrasesA Dictionary of Latin Tags and PhrasesDictionary of Latin Quotations

Simple and easy to use everyday lists of sayings and words

英語の熟語辞典のように使えました。残念ながら辞書一覧表には出ませんでした。