USA: The new edition of Wheelock’s Latin is out. I had four years of Latin in high school, and thought it really helped my vocabulary and grammar. So here’s my plug: take Latin.
Wheelock died years ago, but the Wheelock family has pressed HarperCollins to keep the textbook price at a reasonable level. The paperback edition costs $21 new. But, as Al Greco says, the publisher’s business model is broken. Used books and the downloading of scanned copies help students avoid buying a new copy of every textbook.
I’m about to go through the usual beginning-of-the-term questions from students who want to use an older versino of the course textbook. Both of the textbooks that I use now have significant changes in their new editions, so I tell students to get the current edition. A few try to get by with an older edition, which may lack updated readings or entire chapters. Sometimes it hurts their performance.
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