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Welcome to the Latin Forum :smiley:

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Latin for Beginners, by D’Ooge
A fine book provided for free online by Textkit and the text used most by those learning Latin from Textkit.


Moreland & Fleischer’s Latin: An Intensive Course:
Another highly praised and very popular coursebook. It is very intensive and thorough, as the name suggests.


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Some threads of particular interest:
Best Free Latin Textbook to Learn From?
Next Steps after Wheelock
Syncopation: Abbreviated Forms
Reading Latin properly
How best to start when you’re on your own.
Choosing a Modern Textbook; Pros and Cons of Wheelock’s Latin
Macrons or not?
The Difference Between True and Historic Perfects

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As many of you know, there is a way to link to a specific page of a Textkit pdf file. I for one keep forgetting how, so I will keep the instructions here for my own use and for the use of any visitors who also want to know how.

  1. Go to the Learn Latin (or Learn Greek) page, select the book you wish to link to, and open it in your browser.
    For example, choose Allen & Greenough’s New Latin Grammar.

  2. Copy the URL of the page which holds the pdf file.
    e.g. http://www.textkit.com/files/AG_New_Latin_Grammar.pdf

  3. Add onto the URL the text #page=
    e.g. http://www.textkit.com/files/AG_New_Latin_Grammar.pdf#page=

  4. Put the page number which you wish to link to directly after the = sign. Be careful not to confuse the page numbering of the original book and the page number assigned by Adobe Acrobat, as they are asynchronous. This applies only to the page number of the file, not of the book itself.
    e.g. http://www.textkit.com/files/AG_New_Latin_Grammar.pdf#page=73

  5. Post that in your message, and you will create a link to page 73 of Allen & Greenough’s New Latin Grammar.




    We request that if you want to show someone where a text is, you send the link to the introduction page rather than the pdf file:

Good:
http://www.textkit.com/learn/ID/109/author_id/42/

Bad:
http://www.textkit.com/files/AG_New_Latin_Grammar.pdf