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First and foremost, absolutely feel free to come back here and chat with myself and the others if you have trouble at any point in the course. I'm not particularly familiar with this AP test but I do remember my time with De Bello Gallico pretty well.

A few simple tips I can give without reading through it again:

Caesar has a tendency to tack a bunch of phrases together. It helps to start with the verbs if you feel a little lost. Once you get used to his writing you might find yourself liking his format though.

He likes idioms as much as we do in English. Some of these you'll be able to decipher just by thinking about the literal translation. If something seems out of left field then check some online resources a good one here.

I highly recommend a good dictionary like Cassell's. It does a good job letting you know about idioms and some of the more obscure uses of words that you will find when you do Vergil and others. More or less it is very helpful for the popular readings that you will be doing.

Try your best to enjoy it! Translating Caesar was a blast back when I first did it. He writes differently than other authors and you have an opportunity to learn quite a bit more about the language.

Depends on what you're looking for:

• Grammar approach: Wheelock's Latin. If you like grammar and syntax (which I do), you'll be right at home here. This is a rather popular college textbook.
  
• Reading approach: Ecce Romani - want to read a story and learn the language more inductively? Hit up this textbook. It does have a decent grammar backing, though you may want some more explanation at times. Very useful with cultural and historical explanations. A high-school text.
  
  
• Immersion Approach - Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata - want a book that is purely in Latin and will slowly teach you how to read Latin? Choose this. Like Ecce, tells a story, but no English explanations whatsoever. Immersionists and oral Latin folks are big fans of this. I'm told this has been used at the American Academy at Rome.
  
  
• Grammar-Lite Approach - Jenney's Latin - a bit off-put by the enormity of Wheelock? Still want grammar? This is a high-school level text that is grammar-centric, but won't smack you over the head with it. Note: hasn't been updated in a while, might find this one in older Latin programs.
  
  
• Immersion-Lite Approach - Cambridge Latin Course - not a big fan of total immersion like in Lingua Latina? This text will have the story and English explanations of Ecce, but with much more Latin around. This textbook probably does the best job of teaching history, culture, and mythology as well. You might also be an Anglophile if you choose this book, as it's huge in the UK.
  
  These are the big ones that I know of. I'm sure there are more out there, so other folks, please comment! I'm also sure that some of my own biases might have come out in the post. I've personally used all of these in my classroom (high school Latin teacher here) to some extent except for Cambridge.
  
  Best of luck to you in your pursuit of learning!
  
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> Aside from "hunt the verb,"

Forget it immediately! And break the habit of doing it! The right order in which to read a Latin sentence is the order in which it is written.

> I have not been presented with any reading protocols, and the ones I've searched for online don't seem to fit the bill. Any suggestions on ways to improve my own Latin would be appreciated!

The whole thing is to understand that the ability to decipher Latin and the ability to read it are two different things. Your ability to read Latin is like a muscle, and it will only get stronger when you exercise it. All you need is reading material appropriate to your level, and I have a few suggestions.

• Familia Romana — This book is meant for absolute beginners in Latin, and you might not need the grammar and vocabulary so restricted in the beginning, but thoroughly reading this book after having studied the grammar-translation way improved my own reading ability. The ancillary volumes in the series would be helpful also.
  
• Fabulae Faciles — Definitely download these stories right away.
  
• Ad Alpes — This is a Latin novel from the 1920s about travellers telling stories to one another designed to help students build their vocabulary without the distraction of puzzling constructions or subject matter. The full range of Latin grammar is used, and the level of difficulty is the same all throughout the book. The author also wrote an excellent First Latin Reader which is more on the level of Familia Romana.
  
• Eutropius is quite easy for real Latin.
  
• Dickinson College Commentaries has a number of other Latin texts with running vocabulary and notes.

Any of the basic primers (with the exception of the Oxford Latin Course) are probably fine, though Wheelock's is the time-tested standard for many Classics programs. However, once you get beyond the first few units, I would warmly recommend something like the Lingua Latina series, which not only is written entirely in Latin (with a graded difficulty curve as you advance), but also gives a nice in-situ introduction to Roman family life, civic institutions, etc.

Really, the major problem for any Latin student—or student of any language, really—is gaining proficiency in the language via an inventory of vocabulary, grammatical structures, idioms, etc. With a purely textual language like Latin, one can't easily use daily conversation (or 'immersion' in the current pedagogical lingo) as a means of reinforcement, and thus reading great quantities of text is the only way to improve one's comprehension. Since the bulk of extant Latin literature is 'high' literature, attempting to read even so-called 'easy' authors such as Caesar can be incredibly frustrating to a novice, as even these authors were writing in a style that was the result of years of intensive rhetorical schooling. The canned readings in Wheelock's are okay, but none are longer than a few pages, at the most. The Lingua Latina books can help supplement one's reading, particularly with the graded difficulty approach that they are designed around.

A final bit of advice: memorize everything. You will never, never achieve any degree of proficiency with the language if you don't work at it; I recommend (and regularly use) a flashcard program (Anki in my case) for vocab, forms, names, whatever. You simply can't half-ass this aspect. Most student's trouble when learning Latin is the result of imperfectly knowing a) the vocab, and b) grammatical endings, constructions, etc. Despite its reputation and popular sentiment to the contrary, Latin is not any 'harder' or more complex than English or whatever other language one might be native to. Remember that at one time all manner of people learned and spoke Latin: slaves, foreigners, statesman, plebs, etc. You can do it, but you have to put in the time. Be patient with it, work at it, and you will be rewarded. Good luck!

In the past few months, I have taken up the hobby of learning Latin. I just ordered Wheetlock's and it should be here tomorrow so I can get into the real work of studying. I bought these 3, which seems to a common path.

Wheelock's Latin, 7th Edition

Workbook for Wheelock's Latin

Thirty-Eight Latin Stories Designed to Accompany Wheelock's Latin

$43 for all 3, which is a pretty good deal IMO.

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As for some free material online to get things kicked off, here are some links for you:

Latin Dictionary - good to look up words, has some lessons available.

Another Latin Dictionary site that has a pretty good basic lesson setup

Youtube:

Learn Latin - Gregory Myles Youtube channel - click on his channel and watch the few videos he has. Great intro to Latin.

A reading of Lingua Latina per se Illustrata - Good immersion type learning. A lot of people recommend the book as well.

Lol, I promise I never spent any nights weeping into my coursebook! The main online resource I use is the very excellent Vicarius interface for Whitaker's Words dictionary, which you can find here: http://vicarius.thomasleen.com

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I like reading so I used a lot of supplementary readers, and I would recommend doing that in addition to whatever your main textbook is. I have particularly enjoyed the LLPSI series, the first book of which is here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Familia-Romana-Lingua-Latina-HansH/dp/1585104205/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549409155&sr=8-1&keywords=familia+romana

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There are also some free online readers: search for Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles and Puer Romanus. Geoffrey Steadman has an annotated version of Fabulae Faciles here: https://geoffreysteadman.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/ritchie-10mar17.pdf (his other annotated texts are good too!)

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And when you want something more advanced, there's an absolute shitload of classical texts with facing-page translations available here: https://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus/

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Have fun!

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Sounds like you're interested in classical Latin. Starting there is a good idea, as church Latin tends to be simpler than classical Latin, meaning if you can read classical Latin, you'll have no trouble reading church Latin. I would recommend Lingua Latina. It is 100% in Latin, but starts off very simply and slowly introduces grammar and new words, so that by the time you finish the book you can read in Latin reasonably fluently. If you have experience in learning languages or speak another Romance language, you may be able to get by with just this book, but if not a traditonal grammar like Wheelock's Latin would be a good supplement. The benefit of Lingua Latina is that it teaches you to read in Latin, not painfully translate it. If you're goal is to be able to read texts for pleasure, this is a must.

If you want a nice, gradual dip into Latin I highly, highly recommend Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata. That takes you through a very gradual process of reading Latin in its own context; it focuses less on translation and more on comprehension (which I think is very much the right approach).

But if you'd like a very direct, traditionally structured approach, I found Gavin Betts' Teach Yourself Latin to be very straightforward and clear. I actually used that when I had already put about 6 years into studying Latin, but it didn't really click for me until I ventured through that book on my own. Also handy, and used for the same reason, was Latin Super Review.

Hope this helps, and have fun!

And this, this, and this, supplemental reading for chapters I-XXIV, I-XXV, and XXVI-XXXIV respectively.

Colloquia Personarum and Fabellae Latinae contain additional stories about the same characters featured in LLPSI Pars I, but with more emphasis on (and a more sympathetic portrayal of) side characters such as the doctor and the schoolteacher.

Fabulae Syrae is an adaptation of Greek and Roman myths from Ovid. I highly recommend it, as it contains more complex sentence structures, much more practice with the subjunctive in its various forms, and some very cool mythological stories that are fun to read and will come in handy if you want to understand works of literature and art that reference them.

Actually, I've never really used that book. I teach Medieval Latin almost every semester, and in general I just use whatever texts I'm working on at the moment.

For English, Harrington's "Medieval Latin" is pretty good, BUT the reprint is riddle with OCR errors. It's as if University of Chicago Press just scanned the old copy in and didn't check for errors. Really, it's unusable. But if you can find a copy of the first edition, you're in luck.

http://amzn.com/0226317137

I would recommend Sidwell's "Reading Medieval Latin," which will give you a pretty good grammatical overview, and it has an excellent selection of texts.

http://amzn.com/052144747X

Really, though, having a good dictionary is essential, but there unfortunately isn't one easily available. I make constant use of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources--just finished!--but it's expensive. I hear they are going to put the entire thing online soon, which would be amazing, but I'm not sure when that will be.

Uhhh...yea...I can clearly go on and on here about Medieval Latin, but I'll stop. PM me if you have any more questions.

Edit: If you have access to an academic library and can read German, Peter Stotz's work is amazing in the holy-shit-how-did-one-man-do-that kind of way.

http://www.chbeck.de/Stotz-Handbuch-Altertumswissenschaft-Band-II51-II55-Handbuch-lateinischen-Sprache-Mittelalters-Gesamtwerk-5-Baenden/productview.aspx?product=20489

There are some modern Latin resources that you can read every day.

The first that come to mind are:

• Ephemeris - modern news written in Latin
  
• Hobbitus Ille which you can find on Amazon, but apparently this link is to a free PDF version
  
• Harrius Potter et Philosiphi Lapis also on Amazon (along with other modern Latin books like Winnie Ille Pu).
  
• Project Gutenburg has some classic - modern Latin books also.
  
  Writing in Latin could also allow you to keep up. Keeping a journal or commonplace book can be helpful in a number of ways for a person, you could keep yours entirely (or mostly) in Latin. Might also give some level of privacy if nobody around you knows Latin.

Kindle Touch, with this dictionary. There are other dictionaries, there are free ones, and I'm sure most will work. E-ink's the way to go for a simple reader, but I wish my Kindle had some sort of lighting, which will be on future models I understand, but is something other brands already have.


The books come from anywhere on the internet. Some are free and already on Amazon, some I copy-paste from The Latin Library. Word files, .txt, .pdf, and more all work for this. I use calibre to manage things and convert formats that aren't easily workable.

There is some bugginess with language tagging in the metadata, and the easiest way to get around it all is to just archive all your other dictionaries while reading Latin books. This makes it so the Kindle defaults to your Latin dictionary to look up words.

Whenever you go back to English or other languages, just remember to bring your dictionaries out of archive if you want to use them.

DO read LLPSI Familia Romana! It's a 300 page continuous story introducing over 1000 words not covered in Wheelock!
Besides that, have fun with all the online resources available, like Magister Craft's many Minecraft video's (Latin subtitles available), the 24 episodes of Forum Romanum (full script in the description), Legonium, or Tres Columnae (which requires a lot of clicks to go through each story, but surprisingly provides an enormous narrative of over 140.000 words using a ~3000 word vocabulary). Also Cloelia , as one of the many simple novellas published in the last 3 years, can prove to be a nice read.
At this stage, it doesn't really matter what you read, as long as you read a lot of it and enjoy doing so.

If you want to learn the language most on here will probably reccomend Lingua Latina per se Illustrata. There's a lot of other options as well and I'm sure others will recommend them. Personally, I went the more traditional route (Wheelock's and Writing Latin, then working through a reader and finally just going through Virgil, Livy, etc.) and am currently going through LLPSI for the first time myself, so I can't really preach it's benefits yet haha.

For the Mantras why don't you post them, if you can, and someone might help you out!

Thank you so much! This is very useful information.

>LLPSI generally recommend using the grammar companion

Are you referring to this book or this book? It sounds like really sound advice. My only hesitation is that the grammar book seems to be rather short (around 30 pages).

>This didn't go too well and after banging my head against authentic Latin for a while I started losing motivation and eventually stopped Latin. Took me years (and an encounter with Medieval Latin) to become interested in it again

That's really interesting! How did Medieval Latin get you back into Latin? I would assume Medieval Latin is as difficult as authentic latin.

Also, during your journey through Latin, did you ever utilize audio and speaking resources? I've been thinking about getting the LLPSI audio book since it looks helpful. The extent of my speaking is basically reading the words aloud. I don't have the money to attend one of those immersion programs.

Lewis has an abridged version called An Elementary Latin Dictionary which is cheaper, but still kind of expensive. Another solution might be to get something like Cassel's Latin Dictionary for the basics and use the online Lewis & Short as needed.

I also have Lewis & Short on an iPad app, which works great.

This book is just a rebinding and shuffling of a turn of the century book, but for the cheap cost it comes with tons of practice passages and exercises aimed at learning/reviewing students. I like it a lot as a cost effective thing for more interesting review than just staring at tables or breaking your back with an authentic text.

I second everything everyone else is saying. Another thing I would add is, especially since you're a Catholic, to get a copy of the Latin Vulgate. There are a lot of paper copies and your priests can easily tell you where to get one. Just so you know, this version on Amazon (which is basically the only listing for 'Vulgate' on the site) is a copy of the Stuttgart version, which is an academic rather than devotional version and will read different than what they read in Mass.

I recommend you get a good copy because you'll be killing multiple birds with one stone. Use these other tools like Lingua Latina to start to get the basic grammar and vocabulary. Then you can use the Vulgate to see how the grammar is used in a sentence. I'm doing the same thing right now and it's helping a lot. Beyond that, you'll get used to the language of the Vulgate, which will then help you when you're in Mass.

That's Clyde Pharr's edition (usually known as the Purple Vergil). It's a great help. The old Ad Usum Delphini are great, too. They usually have a prose rewording of the text, so you can decode the poetry without going into English too much (this site has some Ovid, Horace, and Lucretius editions)

As others have said, speak it. Also listen to easy Latin. Evan Millner's material comes to mind. This will help you start thinking in Latin and understanding it on its own terms without using English as an intermediary.

But another important thing to do is this: read easy Latin and read tons of it. This also will help you start understanding Latin on its own terms. If you've had Latin in school, chances are good that you were usually reading Latin that was far too difficult for you, and this is a major reason why it's hard to understand without considerable trouble. Read Lingua Latina: Familia Romana. Read the easier parts of the Vulgate (Genesis, John, etc.). Go through Claude Pavur's elementary readers. Gradually start increasing the difficulty of your reading material.

Neither of these are online, but they're both good for independent study:

• Latin by the Dowling Method
  
• Lingua Latina per se Illustrata I
  
• The Great Courses: Latin 101

You absolutely need Pars I: Familia Romana.

If you are an autodidact, you also need the Teachers' Materials & Answer Keys.

I would strongly suggest you get the Companion to Familia Romana, since it makes explicit all the inductive teaching from Familia Romana. If you let it become a crutch, then the course becomes "Just like Wheelock's, but with extra reading material." However, it's invaluable if you're banging your head against the wall, unable to figure out what something means or why something is done a certain way.

You should also get Fabellae Latinae for extra reading material, since it's a free download.

Since the whole point of the course is "lots of reading that teaches you inductively," I'd also get the Colloquia Personarum, which is extra reading material (like Fabellae Latinae) tied to each of the chapters in Familia Romana.

I did not get the extra book of exercises. Following the advice of Justin Slocum Bailey, I'm spending that time reading more.

It's not infinitely helpful, perhaps, but I own John C. Traupman's "Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency", which, actually effectively or not (and I never experimented enough to say), is at least written entirely to help with this exact cause. Here's the Amazon link, but I bet you just might be able to find it other ways....

Books are good too. I think the organization of this one is excellent
Collin's Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin
https://www.amazon.com/Primer-Ecclesiastical-Latin-Collins/dp/0813206677/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487218100&sr=8-1&keywords=collins+ecclesiastical+latin

Granted, this is church Latin. It may be the flavor for you, or not depending on your interests

The Lewis's Elementary Latin Dictionary, easily. It's comprehensive without being overwhelming (I'm looking at you, OLD). Before that, when I was first learning, the Cassell's dictionary was surprisingly good for the price. Online, though, Wiktionary is my first choice, followed by whatever Perseus has.

If you're not already familiar with learning a foreign language, LLPSI can be pretty daunting without guidance. I would find a teacher or online guide as you read through LLPSI, or work through a few chapters of Wheelock's or something before starting into LLPSI. Personally, I love Jeanne Neumann's Companion to Ørberg.

I have this book, it has a ton of phrases that can be used in everyday speech and also a bunch of proverbs. I never see it mentioned by others learning Latin but it’s a great resource especially for those that want to speak it and apply Latin to modern conversations.

https://www.amazon.com/Conversational-Latin-Oral-Proficiency-Traupman/dp/0865166226

Yeah, I'm only getting stuff like this: https://www.amazon.com/Biblia-Sacra-Vulgata-Vulgate-Bible/dp/1598561782

No commentary is okay, but this doesn't have macrons either. And it's pretty expensive at $60

The late great John F. "Jack" Collins, an adjunct at the Brooklyn College Classics Department who taught at the Latin/Greek Institute, wrote A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin, which might be a good way to re-introduce yourself to Latin from a different period.

If you don't mind reading snippets, Keith Sidwell's Reading Medieval Latin is an excellent anthology of medieval texts. It assumes about your level of preparation. If you want a whole work, Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni (Life of Charlemagne) is interesting and of manageable length. The text is available in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

Edit: I see /u/symmetricaltiger already mentioned Sidwell.

This self taught path will be a tough one. I ordered Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, Pars I: Familia Romana to help. I appreciate the help, now and in the future.

I advice you to get a copy of Hans Ørberg's "Lingva Latina - Familia Romana". It has an ascending difficulty level, and you can get used to read Latin again with the easier chapters and learn more with the later and thus harder chapters. You can get it here: http://www.amazon.com/Lingua-Latina-Illustrata-Pars-Familia/dp/1585104205/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410539390&sr=8-1&keywords=lingua+latina

Good luck in learning more Latin!
Vale,
Tor

One interesting textbook is Lingua Latina per se illustrata, which is designed to introduce Latin to a novice learner solely by immersion. I didn't find it myself until well after I learned Latin, but from what I could tell, it would be a good way to pick up the basics

Pharr's commentary on the first 6 books of the Aeneid is a classic go-to for intermediate students. The best part is that the comprehensive vocab notes and commentary are at the bottom of the page so there's no constant flipping back and forth. The only bad thing is that Pharr wrote this essentially as a job application and got the job so he never wrote a second edition for the rest of the Aeneid lol.


https://www.amazon.com/Vergils-Aeneid-Books-Latin-English/dp/0865164215

If it's medieval Latin you want, here is a great text: http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Medieval-Latin-Keith-Sidwell/dp/052144747X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410568960&sr=8-1&keywords=medieval+latin

I recommend Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, which teaches Latin entirely in Latin.
There are online exercises and also a [YouTube playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SiyrXahjvFahDuA060P487pV
) of the book read aloud by u/LukeAmadeusRanieri if you want to hear what it sounds like.

Collin's Ecclesiastical Latin will probably be an excellent start for you, along with its accompanying answer key.

Even though the grammar will be mostly review, the vocabulary is geared toward ecclesiastical readings.

Aside from that, also consider Sidwell's Medieval Latin. The back of the book contains a guide to the most common idiosyncracies of medieval and later church latin.

I haven't looked extensively at Trapman, Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency, but my experience with it so far is that it's useful and reliable.

https://www.amazon.com/Conversational-Latin-Oral-Proficiency-Traupman/dp/0865166226

You want books to learn Latin and Greek, but you don't want books that are written for the purpose of teaching Latin and Greek?

I'm going to throw a textbook at you anyway, but you might like it:

Familia Romana: https://www.amazon.com/Lingua-Latina-Illustrata-Pars-Familia/dp/1585104205

Get the Exercitia too: https://www.amazon.com/Exercitia-Latina-Exercises-Familia-Romana/dp/1585102121

OP, this is what talondearg is referring to. It's not perfect, but pretty good, and as you can see it's dirt cheap so you cant really go wrong. I have it myself and recommend it.

Perhaps if you could give us some idea of what the intermediate level is? Maybe you could give us some idea of the problems you will be asked to do, or literature you will be asked to read?

Depending on your level of practice and dedication, I think in general that this is possible. I enjoy this book and would recommend it: Latin: An Intensive Course. Of course, you should also look at whatever books your college is using for its curriculum.

This book might be a good place to start: https://www.amazon.com/Conversational-Latin-Oral-Proficiency-Traupman/dp/0865166226

Bonam Fortunam!

I'm very interested, but the only thing I know about Latin is that it makes Jingle Bells sound awesome. Is what you're proposing for an utter and complete novice (I have experience in Italian)? Also, is this the book?

Why not use the supplement that was written for LLPSI? That's what I used and it works really well.

https://www.amazon.com/Companion-Familia-Romana-%C3%98rbergs-Vocabulary/dp/158510809X/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=lingua+latina&qid=1564764691&s=gateway&sr=8-2

Thanks. Did you mean Hans Orberg (this one http://www.amazon.com/Lingua-Latina-Illustrata-Pars-Familia/dp/1585104205)?

You mean like the one published in the student's manual or the one in the college companion?

I wholeheartedly recommend this book and this book.

Simplest terms? Given that request and your stated language background, I think English Grammar for Students of Latin would help immensely. A lot of the 'not clicking' part might just be missing out on how grammar works even in your native tongue. You can get it for less than twenty bucks on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/English-Grammar-Students-Latin-Learning/dp/0934034346/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1549069987&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=English+grammar+for+students+of+Latin&dpPl=1&dpID=41VGnfQiBBL&ref=plSrch

There's stuff like this:

http://www.amazon.com/College-Companion-Oerbergs-Vocabulary-Grammar/dp/1585101915

http://www.amazon.com/Exercitia-Latina-Exercises-Familia-Romana/dp/1585102121

https://www.amazon.com/Biblia-Sacra-Vulgata-Vulgate-Bible/dp/1598561782/ and lots of other new and used book sellers both online and brick-and-mortar. This sort of reference book is often available second-hand for a significantly lower price. And for ease of reference there are a few Latin-English editions featuring the Clementine Vulgate text out there as well.

I'd only say that Wheelock isn't the best supplement to Lingua Latina because the books are structured differently: the concepts are introduced in a different order, and both have different areas of emphasis.

Don't get me wrong: it's a great grammatical reference, but you can't really go through both books at the same time and expect a cohesive curriculum.

Lingua Latina has its own supplements, btw

I used A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin for a time in college. I think it's more focused around church latin post 1000, if I recall correctly, but it probably comes as close as anything would to what you want. It also has lessons that would enable you to study on your own.

Yeah you need to throw that dictionary in the trash and get a different one. Here ya go.

I suggested it in another thread as well: Moreland & Fleischer.

If you can afford it, try out this excellent companion book: https://www.amazon.com/Companion-Familia-Romana-Ørbergs-Vocabulary/dp/158510809X/

It's no longer purely the inductive method, but these are well written and chapter-by-chapter related grammar lessons.

To ease into it I would suggest Lingua Latina, it's a book designed to teach through totally immersion. You'll probably find the first few chapters ridiculously easy, but further on will probably be about your previous level. There are multiple of books with multiple levels of reading capabilities. Here's a link to it https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/1585104205/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523538313&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=lingua+latina&dpPl=1&dpID=41i2-gtD%2BlL&ref=plSrch.

i have one called 'electronic latin dictionary' that works very well with inflected forms but i can't find it in the store anymore.

i wonder if this one is an updated version. it says it handles u for v which the one i have doesn't (which is an issue for some of the delphi classics editions) https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Latin-Dictionary-Thomas-McCarthy-ebook/dp/B005CA3W2G/ref=nodl_

tldr absolutely and there's even one for ancient greek too!

If you're trying to find some sort of "natural method" to learning Latin I reccommend Lingua Latina. The audio recordings can also be helpful if you decide to get them but they aren't necessary.

Familia Romana by Hans Ørberg is the one that I see recommended the most often around here. It takes a more immersive approach to learning Latin where you jump right in and start reading rather than focusing on grammar tables right off the bat. The Exercitia and Latine Disco books go with it.

The story of Familia Romana gets better as the book progresses. If you're stuck in the first third, I can see it being a slog at times. It also opens up quite a bit if you read the ancillary materials, which flesh out the characters and introduce various subplots with overlapping timelines and such. There are three:

Colloquia Personarum is a collection of readings meant to accompany the first 24 chapters of Familia Romana

Fabellae Latinae is a similar but open-source (nisi fallor) supplement with readings that correspond to the first 25 chapters of FR.

Fabulae Syrae is a collection of adapted myths of Ovid; it follows Colloquia Personarum and the readings correspond to the final ten or so chapters of FR.

I find Allen and Greenough useful as a reference book, but I wouldn't recommend that someone sit down and just read through it as grammar review. I'd suggest Moreland and Fleischer for that instead.

There's a book called Reading Medieval Latin by Keith Sidwell in which he goes into the cultural & historical context of that particular variation of Latin. However it starts at an intermediate level & does assume you already know basic Latin.

So I suggest to get up to the level expected in this book, read it's predecessor Reading Latin by Keith Sidwell or read Hans Ørberg's Lingua Latina Per Se Illvstrata

Might be Pharr's Aeneid-- I used it too.

http://www.amazon.com/Vergils-Aeneid-Books-Edition-English/dp/0865164215

How about this?

Is this the same thing?
https://www.amazon.com/Lingua-Latina-College-Companion-Vocabulary/dp/1585101915/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Do you have the college companion to Lingua Latina?

Would this be everything? Or should I some other things?

There is a companion to LLPSI that gives english info chapter by chapter: https://www.amazon.com/Companion-Familia-Romana-Ørbergs-Vocabulary/dp/158510809X

This is the standard one that people use.

You can get one for $55 on Amazon. Or, for much less, you could get the one linked above printed and spiral bound (maybe in three volumes?) at your local Kinko's, etc.

Unabridged texts with macra are practically nonexistant (it's assumed that anyone who will read them knows where the macra go anyways). For the Vulgate, search [Biblia Sacra Vulgata] (https://www.amazon.com/Biblia-Sacra-Vulgata-Editio-quinta/dp/3438053039) and you will find many options. I don't know of unabridged versions of the other two works.

Biblia Sacra Vulgata (Editio quinta) (Latin Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/3438053039/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_kkMFxbYMJQ9WJ

Also the SPQR app has a copy of the Vulgate in it. It's about $5.99.

The most rigorous in terms of speed of content presentation and complexity thereof is probably Moreland & Fleischer's Latin: An Intensive Course; it even introduced the subjunctive in chapter 2! That's not to say it's the best, but it is probably the most rigorous.

It's not quite what you requested, but you should give Caesar's Commenaties On The Gallic War a try. It's some of the simplest actual classical latin out there, and readily available online in a version where you can just click a button to see a translation if you get stuck.

Reading through that with a latin dictionary taught me almost as much as all my years of latin education.

Also, this could be below your level, but might be more relevant to your interests: https://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Eight-Stories-Designed-Accompany-Wheelocks/dp/0865162891

It's a collection of very short (one paragraph) stories in increasing difficulty, with an english glossary for each story.