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Lykeio
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Message 17 of 19

11 October 2013 at 12:05pm | IP Logged

I'm not too sure I would recommend a bilingual Caesar, it's not terribly difficult and
it is worth struggling through whatever you're struggling with in order to get better
by the end.

At best you might want to go to a good annotated version, Orberg actually has one of BG
books 1,4 and 5 I believe which should be relatively ok for a beginner to handle.

If you do specifically want a bilingual one, which is not inherently a bad idea, might
I suggest suggest Carter's version of the first two books of the Civil War? Its only
2/3rds of the overall work but it has text, translation, and a commentary which might
help in fleshing out a lot of important details. Its also an overlooked beginners text,
which is a shame...the Latin is slightly more difficult than BG but its a very
important historical work and along with Suetonius' Life of Atticus serves as a great
introduction to the period.
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montmorency
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Message 18 of 19

11 October 2013 at 12:44pm | IP Logged

Lykeio wrote:

I'm not too sure I would recommend a bilingual Caesar, it's not
terribly difficult and
it is worth struggling through whatever you're struggling with in order to get better
by the end.

At best you might want to go to a good annotated version, Orberg actually has one of BG
books 1,4 and 5 I believe which should be relatively ok for a beginner to handle.

If you do specifically want a bilingual one, which is not inherently a bad idea, might
I suggest suggest Carter's version of the first two books of the Civil War? Its only
2/3rds of the overall work but it has text, translation, and a commentary which might
help in fleshing out a lot of important details. Its also an overlooked beginners text,
which is a shame...the Latin is slightly more difficult than BG but its a very
important historical work and along with Suetonius' Life of Atticus serves as a great
introduction to the period.

My primary interest was in actually reading De Bello Gallico for the historical
interest, with reviving Latin as only a possibly beneficial side-effect. I gave Latin 5
years of sweat in my precious early years. I'm not sweating over it ever again.

But thanks for the Carter book recommendation.

EDIT: I should perhaps add that last night, I ordered a bilingual Latin-German version
of it, so I'm still prepared to sweat a bit where German is concerned.... :-)

Edited by montmorency on 11 October 2013 at 12:50pm
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cpnlsn88
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Message 19 of 19

12 October 2013 at 2:26pm | IP Logged

If interested in multimedium you could supplement your learning with audio input from a number of news sources:

YLE news broadcasts in Latin Nuntii Latini

Or Radio bremen Nuntii Latini

I much prefer the finnish pronunciation but that's just me.

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