Latin Mastered in Six Weeks - A New Method of Teaching the Language #232301

But first let us see what amount of time and labour is usually required in order to make one at all familiar with Latin. One would think, if Latin can be learned at all, that four years at any School where it is taught should give a boy a fair insight into the language. But what are the facts '2 These four years suffice only to give a boy, however bright he may be, a very vague and theoretical View of Latin. If we question him, we will find that he knows a smattering of grammar, that he has at least a small vocabulary of Latin words, and when a short simple Latin sentence is shown him, he can frs quently make some attempt at translating it. We cannot stick him at declining nouns or adjectives and as to conjugating verbs, he can do this sleeping or waking.