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Hi! It's great that you want to learn Latin yourself - I was in a similar position not long ago, and can share my experience. Firstly, it's not going to be very easy, but it will be a lot of fun - learning Latin will teach you a lot about linguistics, history, and even English.
It seems to be a consensus at /r/latin that Wheelock's, while being a good textbook, teaches to translate, not to read. It focuses on rote memorization of grammar. Lingua Latina, on the other hand, focuses on reading comprehension and is considered by /r/latin users to be a superior learning method. It's based on the natural method: it is written completely in Latin, beginning with very simple phrases which speaker of any European language can understand, and slowly progresses further. To give you an idea, its first sentence is "Rōma in Italiā est". You can understand it easily, and you've already learned 4 words!
While Lingua Latina is a great textbook, I would advise getting some supplements to augment your studying process. All of them can be bought on amazon, or acquired by other means if you wish to cut your costs. Excercitia Latina, which follow Lingua Latina chapter by chapter, will give you enough practice to get a firm grip on each chapter's material. I would recommend not just filling the gaps in, but writing whole exercises out in a separate notebook - making the mechanical memory help you memorize words and grammatical structures. Latine Disco and Neumann's companion are useful companions, which will help you understand grammar introduced in each chapter of Lingua Latina (you only need one of them).
Finally, memorizing words is necessary with any language, and Latin is no exception. Some students find Lingua Latina's method to be sufficient for spaced repetition of new words, but it wasn't enough for me. I used anki, a spaced repetition software based on flashcards, to study words. There is a Lingua Latina deck available for anki, divided into chapters: thus you can easily add words into your flashcard pool after completing every LL chapter.
I hope this helps! If you'll have any questions on the material, redditors on /r/latin are very nice and are always willing to help.
Good luck with your studies!
Valē, amīce!
Do you have the college companion to Lingua Latina?
I'm taking a Latin III this year and this is our sorta finale for the Latin program.
The other question is very tricky.
Hope I helped!
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
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
You mean like the one published in the student's manual or the one in the college companion?
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