arrrgh Fr. Henle....not my finest memories from highschool. Then again, sure helped with the College Latin. Warriner's Grammer and Saxon Math were staples of my highschool education as well. There is much to be enthused with a curriculum that includes these.
Our daughter didn't want to study Latin when she was homeschooling in high school. She wanted to learn Japanese, so I got her some workbooks created by the Japanese Language Association, designed to teach young people. She did the work in one of them, but was mostly self-taught, from watching Anime in the undubbed versions, and reading Manga in Japanese. She just figured out the words and phrases from the context. When we went to Japan in the summer of 2005, to visit some friends who are living there, she was the only one of all of us who could read menus!
She's in a small Catholic college now, and is taking Latin. She said the grammar reminds her of Japanese, so she's not having any trouble with it at all. Who woulda thunk it?