I bought this book a few months ago and initially liked it. The first few chapters were great and was learning a little. Then, when the grammar was starting to pile on and new verb usages were added it became frustrated because there is not any explanations of what that word means grammatically in english. I had to go online or use Wheelock (yuck) to get a grammatical explanation. It was a very cumbersome process. After about two weeks of this I gave up and started to hate Latin which I was beginning to love. At about chapter 16 I stopped and had to find a better way to learn. I did. Use Cambridge Latin. There are 4 parts to the course and the literature itself is much more interesting and there are grammar explanations along with the readings.