Dictionary Blues

[chickenfeet]

I spent a couple of hours at Contact Editions yesterday in search of various novels for lemur_catta, history books for me and a Latin-English dictionary. The dictionary section was pretty impressive but nothing Latin to be seen (except for a papercover of the Oxford Latin Dictionary A-C only! I could though have had, inter alia, Hawaiian, Albanian or Tuscaroran.

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l a t i n

[daubentonia.livejournal.com]

When I was looking for Latin translations, I actually saw a few good-looking Latin dictionaries on eBay of all places. Also, next time you're out here, we have to go to Serendipity Books in Berkeley. They have the most astonishing collection of 16th-19th century antiquarian books I've ever seen. I think you'd like it. And... now that I've been thinking a lot about Latin, and you and Lemur seem to be pretty good at it, how would you recommend I go about learning it? Are those software language courses useless or worthwhile?

Re: l a t i n

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I asked my classicist/medievalist friends and they were unanimous that Wheelock's Latin is the way to go. I have found it quite good so far. I don't know about s/w based courses.