Vocabulary Cards and Grammatical Forms Summary for Wheelock's Latin

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Summary: I Was Warned
Review: I read the two reviews available at the time, so I must say I was warned. I should have paid more attention to the "Latin Student" review about the poor quality. I will not repeat them all, but I concur on every point. The physical quality of this product is very, very low.
The content of the product is a good idea. The publishers/editors should completely remake them and abandon the whole format that requires tearing apart cards and assembling flimsy boxes. They then should offer the new product at a very low price for those of us who wish to trade in this version.

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Summary: A must-have for those learning from Wheelock's Latin
Review: I learned Latin in college using the Wheelock's Latin book and spent hours every night studying my vocabulary by making my own vocabulary cards. I believe the process of writing the vocabulary by hand can be a good way to memorize new words; however, when a language is learned at a rapid pace, writing out each and every note card becomes time consuming and valueless as a memorization tool. I wish I had had the Wheelock's Vocabulary Cards and Grammatical Forms Summary to have made more efficient use of my study time. Every vocabulary card comes complete with chapter label, grammatical information (i.e. nominative and genitive forms of nouns and all principal parts of verbs), and derivatives printed right on them - all you have to do is pop the cards out. Grammatical charts of forms are also included in the back of the book that you can pop out and carry with you in your notebook to pull out easily and study whenever you have time. I highly recommend this product for students using the Wheelock's series and it could act as a fantastic vocabulary builder for students learning Latin from other textbooks as well.

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Summary: Low quality paper and very time-consuming to assemble
Review: I was quite disappointed in this product.

The information on these cards is perfectly valid and useful in that they match the progression of the Wheelock chapters. These cards come in a book form with 10 perforated cards to a page. There are about 86 pages of cards total. You have to tear out each edge of every card and build two box bottoms and two box tops to hold the cards. This was a very time-consuming process. It took me about two hours to assemble the first box of cards.

This would be acceptable to me if the paper were not of a very low quality. The flimsy and course-grained paper is easy to tear in the wrong direction when separating the perforations. The box top and bottom templates are also made of thin paper not well suited to constructing a box. Also, the cards fit poorly in the box. There is a lot of room in the box, and the box will crush easily. Lastly, the flimsy cards have a fuzzy perforated edge around them, so that when you flip through them, they tend to stick together.

These cards area good idea, but physically they are executed very poorly.