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Excerpt from Ahn's First Latin Latin Book Special attention is invited to the following remarks explanatory of the system of instruction adopted in this Latin Course, and particularly in the present volume, the First Latin Book. Competent and very experienced authorities on the study of Latin have repeatedly adverted to the fact that the custom of tasking the beginner with a great mass of grammatical detail, introducing even scientific etymology and comparative philology into a mere school-book, must be considered a serious burden and harm to a young learner. Less of theoretical completeness and accuracy, and more of sound practical knowledge, and at the same time a greater familiarity with the classic authors, is the tendency of our time especially in America, and it is with due attention to these views and aims that the present Course has been prepared. The main object of the First Latin Book is twofold: first, to provide ample means for practice in Pronunciation, and secondly, to enable a beginner to fix the Declensions thoroughly in his memory, to learn their usage by translating simple sentences as soon as he commences the study of the language, and to accumulate gradually a store of useful words. Without entering into the discussion as to the best method of pronouncing Latin, it may be permitted to urge the great advantage and importance of knowing the phonetic system, either Roman or Continental. As this is an accomplishment which can only be taught orally and acquired by practice, the First Latin Book contains in its introductory pages a systematic collection of reading-lessons -exhibiting Latin words of every-day use, with their meanings, and illustrating at the same time Accent, Division into Syllables, and Quantity - which, in consequence of their practical arrangement, may be used with equal advantage for teaching either the Roman or the Continental Pronunciation. Closely based upon this part of the book, and possessing its chief features, are the Reading-Charts, which will be found of great service in class-instruction, even to those perhaps who think it most advisable "to leave Latin pronunciation as it is." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.