Good stuff, Jay. This is a book very much in the spirit of LingQ, if the audio recordings are used. You can get a very good idea of its method by looking here: http://focusbookstore.com/LLfullcolorpb.aspx and clicking on “See Table of Contents / Excerpt”; click forward to page 7, as a reading of the text should soon commence, and you can follow along.
That’s it–just the text, and recordings if you buy them. The recording on the website is what is on the CD that can be purchased from the (American) publisher’s site, or amazon, etc. The book has gone up in price somewhat, now that it is a full-color edition (which adds nothing, really), but it is still well worth the price, and there are all sorts of ancillary materials offered nowadays. Note that the book is the first half (or so) of the method; things grow rather more complex in the second part. But I bet anyone who completes this first book will be hooked on Latin.
For someone who does not like the grammar-translation way of learning, Lingua Latina provides one of the few ways in English, at least, to tackle Latin from the beginning.
Another is this: A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language; with Perpetual Exercises in ... - George J. Adler - Google Books , with key: A Key to the Exercises Contained in Adler's Practical Grammar of the Latin ... - George J. Adler - Google Books . There are amateur audio recordings available for it as well: Latinum Institute: Adler. A Latin Language Immersion Course. . Click on “Buy this DVD” to see a list of Latin recordings available. (Michele, the pronunciation is a sort of relaxed “Restored Pronunciation,” w/ a definite British or South African flavor, IIRC.)
Will either of these methods work? I don’t know, as I can’t try them ab initio, but they would certainly be worth trying if you want a more LinqQ-like experience.
There is another non-traditional method available in English, without recordings: THE MASTERY SERIES LATIN : THOMAS PRENDERGAST : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive . This is definitely not like LingQ.
As ever, my apologies to those not in the U.S. if these links do not work. If they don’t but you are interested, drop me a message on my wall; we can probably work something out by e-mail, as i have downloaded/bought all of these materials, other than the audio for the Adler method.