That's really cool. I have been tempted to try the Lingua Latina books, which argue a softer version of this thesis: that memorizing tables of inflections doesn

That's really cool. I have been tempted to try the Lingua Latina books, which argue a softer version of this thesis: that memorizing tables of inflections doesn't work as well as "immersive reading." I'm inclined towards this because, as a non-Catholic, my interface with Latin is textual rather than aural. It would be interesting to hear from someone who tried both.