As a former student of Latin in both high school and college, which was many, many years ago, I ordered this book to refresh my memory and to challenge my brain a bit. I will not complete the reading of this book because I found the first two chapters overwhelming in the amount of information for a beginning book. Nouns before verbs, all the declensions, verb forms and tenses by the second chapter - too much at one time. I would not recommend this book for a beginning Latin student.