the Greater Nomadic Council

Screw Wheelock's

To anyone who wishes to learn Latin: stay away from Wheelock's. Instead, get Reading Latin (requires the exercises). The texts are far more interesting and have not been horribly mutilated by the authors in a misguided attempt to make them easier to understand. Relatively early on, you read idiomatic Latin and fairly complex sentences; you aren't comprehension-crippled. The presentation of declensions and conjugations is also done in a way that makes them easier to retain. The relationship expressed in a Horace quotation I recently read in the text—vilius argentum est auro, virtutibus aurum [silver is cheaper than gold, gold than virtues]—applies equally well to that between Wheelock's and Reading Latin.