By Marie Carducci Bolchazy
Translated by Mardah B.C. Weinfield

Description

Color-learning with a new twist: in Latin.
Aided by original artwork and an English translation, children learn the Latin words for a full range of colors: red, yellow, blue, pink, white, gray, black, purple, brown, green. In the process of learning the color words, they also learn words for apple, flower, pet, food, bird, and canary. Finally they get to select their favorite color. The original artwork is charming and creative. A complete vocabulary, with emphasis on derivatives, and pronunciation guide are provided; a recording of the text is also available.

Experts recommend that children start a foreign language as early as possible. With this book, a child can start learning Latin at age four. Latin is an excellent foreign language to select. Just ask any lawyer, doctor, scientist, nurse, or linguist.

Click here to listen to the recording.

Special Features

• Latin book for primary-age children: a rarity!
• Carefully researched Latin
• Latin text available on CD and on the Bolchazy-Carducci website (Coming Soon)
• Pronunciation guide and vocabulary with emphasis on derivatives
• English translation
• Charming original line drawings
• Special notes on the value of Latin and on Latin word endings

Teaching Tips:
Quo Colore Est?
(using children's books translated into Latin to teach grammar) - .pdf file 484k

• Result: students will know the names of eleven colors and understand that nouns and adjectives of the same or different declensions modify one another in case, number, and gender.
  

Comparison

While children's books have been translated into Latin, it is rare to find any that are designed for students as young as four. Furthermore, the quality of the Latin would satisfy any classicist.

Comments and Reviews

This is one of a series of Latin books developed for children aged four to eight. It introduces the Latin words for a wide range of colours, as well as such related words as apple, bird, flower, and pet. The pictures are produced in black and white with a Latin sentence or phrase at the top of each page, for example delicium atrum esse potest with vel lacteum on the next page. The book repeats the colours for easy learning. The book can be heard on www.bolchazy.com (useful for pronunciation) and it contains two drawing and colouring activities. Maybe pupils could make a colour wheel in Latin to encourage a link in art. Although this book teaches colours and touches upon the agreement of adjectives in Latin (flos ruber, avis rubra, malum rubrum), I feel it is a 'one-off' end-of-term resource book for pupils aged seven to eight to have some Latin fun.

— Wendy Hunt
All Hallows School
JACT #3 Autumn 2004

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