Speak Latin whenever you can

I just acquired a new book, and it's walking a tight-rope between hilarious and brilliant.

Latin For Beginners by Wilkes (author), Shackell (illustrator) and Priddy (designer).

It's an introduction to Latin, aimed at children, and designed in exactly the same way as an introduction to French or Italian might be designed.

It offers the exact same language learning advice (use it whenever you can) and the exact same situations (at the restaurant, in your home, talking about your hobbies) that you'd find in any modern languages introductory book for kids.

Using this book, you'll be able to tell the waiter at the restaurant that you really like potato chips (amo poma terrestria assa) or talk about what time one watches television (quadrante post quintam televisorium spectat).

And the little visual jokes that would be mildly amusing in a book introducing Italian are downright hilarious in a book introducing Latin.