Wheelock's Latin by Frederic M. Wheelock, Richard A. Lafleur (2005, Paperback, Bilingual)

I bought this book as required for Latin 1010. It's a very good book with lots of practice for each chapter. I highly recommend using the Optional Self-Tutorial Exercises for each chapter which starts on pg 356. The answer key begins on pg 396. For those of you who think Latin will be easy because you're good at learning languages, or know Spanish, French or Italian, you're in for a shock. Latin is like algebra; the only way you'll learn it is to practice, practice, practice, then practice some more. This book offers plenty of practice.

The book itself is a well written and trains the reader how to translate Latin into English, and does a fairly good job of accomplishing this. Naturally, this is more of a text book then an actual guide on how to learn Latin. The exercises are repetitious (like all text books) with the intent of forcing the reader to EVENTUALLY memorize EVERYTHING. The only downside, however, is that with every new chapter, the author expects the reader (you) to have completely memorized everything from the previous chapter. When used in a class setting this is fine, because the instructor will often take up on the review where the book has failed and all is well. If you're using just the book, however, advancing becomes very difficult (unless, of course, you're one of those odd individuals who has a photographic memory. If you are, I envy you).

All in all this is a fantastic textbook (for translating, not for learning to actually SPEAK the language. As far as speaking goes this is NOT the book for you). I would recommend it for any student looking to become an excellent translator of dead languages.

the book was in excellent condition. it arrived a couple days after "expected" arrival date that is given, but not extremely late. good seller. trustworthy