What are the best books for learning Latin?

What about this?

https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Latin-Homeschoolers-Self-Taught/dp/0979505100/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483225288&sr=8-1&keywords=learn+latin

Latin Via Ovid by Goldberg

No one ever mentions this one, but it's the best way to get reading fluency, starting fro nothing, bar none.

>>8910563
Thx, started reading moderately this year and I already get the sense that learning Latin will be good just for books but I know it's a dead language so it's almost completely useless other than that

Start with greek

>>8910563
>best
HAHAHAHAHA

>>8910563
THIS

You might also want to try Lingua Latina per se Illustrata. Both books are amazing for learning how to actually read full length works instead of just individual sentences and paragraphs. (Lingua Latina also has a bunch of ancillary readers that are, like, ten bucks each. They're all relatively short and nice for a diversion if you ever get bored of the big textbooks.)

lingua latina + latin via ovid are memes for retards

>>8911420
What do you use?

>>8909689
Wheelers latin course
latin at GCSE by John Taylor
Per Illustrata also seems good

>>8910594
most living languages are "useless" too, unfortunately

>>8912554
seconding wheelock

this is the standard in burgerland

>>8912554
>>8912561
Why Wheelock?

>>8912560
Well I know english (which is the language of the current great power), so studying latin should help for understanding most ancient culture. Looking at the world through the english lense so to speak means that I'm generally reading latin-english translations of things that were originally translated to latin. By learning latin I would be removing a step between myself and primary sources.

>>8914504
>Looking at the world through the english lense so to speak means that I'm generally reading latin-english translations of things that were originally translated to latin. By learning latin I would be removing a step between myself and primary sources.
That might have been true for some things 500 years ago but not anymore.