I haven't read them. When I was a homeschooling parent, they were popular with some people covering either French or Latin as part of the homeschooling curriculum for their child.
I know some French and some Latin and my mother's a German immigrant. But I found it to be too steep a learning curve to get excited about, though I wanted to be interested because I wanted some way to further my study of French, among other things.
There are English language resources for helping you understand it, such as this which goes into explaining the Latin jokes, among other things:
That's not at all intended to be discouragement. I also feel like I've missed out, but that's not likely to ever be remedied. There's only so many hours in the day.
I know some French and some Latin and my mother's a German immigrant. But I found it to be too steep a learning curve to get excited about, though I wanted to be interested because I wanted some way to further my study of French, among other things.
There are English language resources for helping you understand it, such as this which goes into explaining the Latin jokes, among other things:
https://www.everythingasterix.com/
That's not at all intended to be discouragement. I also feel like I've missed out, but that's not likely to ever be remedied. There's only so many hours in the day.