This is a great course for beginners and amateurs in Latin. As someone who was quite skilled at the language in school, I've just returned to this series to try and recover my skills, and it's nice to see how much I still remember! By using a narrative approach, combined with information about the culture, the Cambridge Latin Course allows you to pass easily through the workload. Obviously, it is only an introductory program and as such, the first book doesn't go into great detail in areas of either vocab or grammar. As someone mentioned below, the two biggest flaws are 1) lack of pronunciation guides, although a simple Google search and understanding of the accents used will help this; and 2) that the end-of-chapter word lists are never comprehensive. ( )

I really enjoyed translating from this book when I was in high school. The stories were simple but kept my attention, and often made me forget I was doing work. ( )

I had this for my college Latin class. It is very good.