Introduction to Caesar's
De Bello Gallico (DVD)
1000+ minutes of audio mp3 files
You can find this DVD in the Latinum store on Kunaki.
This material is suitable for intermediate students of Latin.
1. This DVD contains the audio for Lowe, Butler and Walker's introductory text for Caesar, Cannon's introductory text for Caesar, vocabulary audio files, and a separate literal English translation in audio.
2. The audio covers Book One of Caesar's Gallic War, from Chapter 1 to Chapter 28.
3. Lowe's text on the DVD is numbered from 000 to 106
4. Cannon's text is named Cannon's Caesar, and is numbered from 001 to 029
5. The vocabulary audio is taken from Cannon's text, and contains all the vocabulary in audio for book one of De Bello Gallico. Each word or phrase is read in Latin - English - Latin.
6. The English literal version is contained in the files numbered 1001 to 1029, and contains a literal rendition of the text.
You can find this DVD in the Latinum store on Kunaki.
How to use this material:
The student can examine the contents of the texts, and work out their own approach to using these audio resources.
Lowe's text contains much grammatical information, and the audio really needs to be used in conjunction with the text. This is a comprehensive textbook, which also lays down an overview of Latin grammar as it proceeds through the material line by line. This textbook contains a full Latin syntax, which is not read out in
audio, but which might be useful for the student to consult.
Cannon's text contains a re-written summary in simplified Latin of each chapter, followed by the
actual chapter. This text also contains a brief grammatical appendix, which is not included in the audio.
The English literal translation is to be found in the files numbered 1001 to 1029. It might be useful for a beginning student to listen to the English, before looking at the Latin, so that he or she is more or less familiar with the text before attempting to learn it.
The vocabulary files are intended to consolidate what you know, and can be listened to before starting the material, or occasionally, to refresh the memory.
You can find this DVD in the Latinum store on Kunaki.
