Rating: 
Summary: Comprehensive but overwhelming for beginners
Review: This was the text I used in a Latin I class at the University of Chicago. *Intensive* is the key word in this book. In the first two units your cover very complicated grammatical concepts including The Subjunctive Mood (there's no equivalent in English). By unit four you've been introduced to all tenses of the Indicative Mood (present, perfect, imperfect, future). If you're like me and Latin was your first exposure to a foreign language since high-school, then your mood will be more frustrated than indicative. If you're familiar with Greek, especially ancient Greek, then you'll be just fine.Unless your have a strong command of both English Grammar and another Romance language's Grammar the popular Wheelock books are probably better for you. If you can get through sections like "The Present Active Indicative System for the First Two Conjugations" on page 23, then you'll be frustrated to learn that there's no answer key to the exercises at the end of each unit. I now use this book more as a reference, often returning when I learn a new concept in Wheelock. Unfortunately it's very poorly bound. After a couple of weeks, the binding was already breaking, so be careful with it. Our instructor's book was in five pieces after only a year of owning it. As other reviewers have noted, it has an excellent listing of vocabulary to learn at the end of each unit.
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