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Title: Misleading title
Review: This book is misleadingly titled."Latin Can Be Fun" suggests a work that should contain more actual humour than this one does.Instead, this curious little book seems to be a very conventional foreign language phrase book that just happens to be in Latin. The author apparently considers this concept to be enough of a joke that little effort was made to make the contents funny. It is nothing like the "Latin for All Occasions" series; in that series, there is some humour in the Latin translations of contemporary buzzwords.In fact, some people do speak Latin and attempt to converse in it. This book has minimal grammatical helps of the kind that would enable a user to try to make herself understood in Latin. If it ain't already there, you're out of luck.The best feature of the book is its attempts at coining new words for features of modern life unknown to Cicero. A dictionary or word index would have been helpful to assist the reader in finding them, though.
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