Ecce Romani II: Home and School Pastimes and Ceremonies

Rating:
Summary: Excellent series
Review: Following the precident set by Ecce Romani I, Ecce Romani II is another excellent step in Latin Pedagogy. My high school Latin II (the last two thirds of the year) and Latin III(three quarters of the year) used this text to finish up the major corpus of Latin grammar. I feel that this series is an excellent pedagogical step in making the different logical system of Latin more accessible.

This text cements the concepts of Latin into the minds of its users. I have found myself in my Ecclesiastical Latin courses at the seminary (which is part of my college's complex) having an easy time recalling grammar and vocabulary because this text helped me very much in learning fully the Latin language.

As with Ecce Romani I, my only qualm with Ecce Romani II is that it tends to take a long time to teach concepts. For rapid learning of the Language (which requires extremely devoted study), I suggest John F. Collins' "Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin". However, if you are not in a complete rush to learn Latin, I suggest buying the teacher's edition of this book, if possible (for independent study) because it is built on a very sound pedogogical foundation.

Rating:
Summary: Another excellent step in High School Latin Pedagogy!
Review: Following the precident set by Ecce Romani I, Ecce Romani II is another excellent step in Latin Pedagogy. My high school Latin II (the last two thirds of the year) and Latin III(three quarters of the year) used this text to finish up the major corpus of Latin grammar. I feel that this series is an excellent pedagogical step in making the different logical system of Latin more accessible.

This text cements the concepts of Latin into the minds of its users. I have found myself in my Ecclesiastical Latin courses at the seminary (which is part of my college's complex) having an easy time recalling grammar and vocabulary because this text helped me very much in learning fully the Latin language.

As with Ecce Romani I, my only qualm with Ecce Romani II is that it tends to take a long time to teach concepts. For rapid learning of the Language (which requires extremely devoted study), I suggest John F. Collins' "Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin". However, if you are not in a complete rush to learn Latin, I suggest buying the teacher's edition of this book, if possible (for independent study) because it is built on a very sound pedogogical foundation.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent series
Review: This is a very well-written textbook series. I took Latin I and II using this series, but I had to switch to the Cambridge Latin series for Latin III when I changed schools. Ecce Romani is a much better series than Cambridge. It contains many assets (such as an English-Latin AND Latin-English dictionary, multiple challenging practice exercises in each chapter, enjoyable stories, well-organized vocabulary sections in each chapter, etc.) necessary for the enjoyable and productive study of Latin which the Cambridge books lack. The Ecce Romani books are well organized and more enjoyable to learn from. I highly recommend this well-written series to everyone.