"The first half of this book examines the commercial, social, and political implications of American monolingualism. The second half of the book explores the techniques and tools that a working professional can use to acqure functional skills in a new language."--Back cover.

This book contains 24 chapters on the essentials of the Latin language, the base tongue of the Romance languages. It is designed to provide a compact and modern learning material for travellers, professionals, students, and language enthusiasts who want to understand and speak the language in a short time. The book provides self-learners with a comprehensive yet straightforward grammar resource for learning Latin. It provides thousands of important Latin phrases and terms that can be used for everyday conversations, a pronunciation guide, and a listing of abbreviations and important words in Latin. Is it still possible to master at least the basics of the Latin language if you're given only a few days to do so? Fortunately, it is possible, and this book will help you do just that. This book features not only basic Latin grammar rules but also easy-to-understand guides on how the language can best be used in various situations.