there is this text called "lingua latina per se ilustrata" that is all in latin and is designed to make you learn by context...I haven't bought it yet but some friends like it.

Oh, no! I studied Latin at school -we all do, in Italy- but I've long forgot it, with the exception of some idiomatic phrase, and for some reason, the praeneste fibula's inscription which I know by heart ever since I first saw it and I continue to like even though I know it's probably a hoax. Now, who's gonna find a link with Perl to pretend we're not too OT? (No, I don't think mentioning L::R::P is enough. How 'bout archaic Perl?)