The Latin Speaker - Frank Sewall

[kev67]

I was looking for a Latin phrase book. Not the 'cogito ergo sum' type of phrase, but more like the 'Wo is die am nachste Bushaltestelle?' type phrase book. Eventually I ordered 'The Latin Speaker' by Frank Sewall. From the introduction it looks like Frank Sewall was a 19th Century, American academic, who thought students would learn Latin better, if they had naturalistic dialogues they could repeat. I have started reading it, but it is not really a 'Je voudrais une chambre avec douche,' type phrase book. The first dialogues are all extracts from the Bible. There are some dialogues in part 2. I will still work through it. It is not very difficult, but it is not what I was expecting.

 

[cinefactus]

I have seen some from the Renaissance, but I can't remember their names.

 

[Pacifica]

I have seen some from the Renaissance, but I can't remember their names.

This may be one of them: Colloquies - Wikipedia

I haven't read it myself, but heard of it.

 

[Pacifica]

It doesn't seem to be quite the "chambre avec douche" type, either, though.

 

[Avunculus H]

Suuum cuique, of course, but where would you use that knowledge? Normal text books at least prepare you for reading existing Latin texts.
BTW, it's 'Wo ist die nächste Bushaltestelle?', without am.

 

[Iacobinus]

This may be one of them: Colloquies - Wikipedia

I haven't read it myself, but heard of it.

The Belles Lettres, a quite serious French academic publishing house, famous for its Latin and Greek bilingual editions, recently published them.

Les Colloques - Érasme

Voici un livre d'un genre littéraire non identifié, fruit du hasard et de l'occasion, entamé par le jeune Érasme pour ses élèves et regroupant dans...

www.lesbelleslettres.com

 

[cinefactus]

It doesn't seem to be quite the "chambre avec douche" type, either, though.

The one I saw was much simpler.