I offer the following suggestions to help you master the Latin tongue. Progress will occur not by leaps and bounds but by steady increment with frequent, sometimes frustrating plateaus. Please bring your book to class every day. Write out your assignments so you can correct them in class. The sound in Latin is all too often ignored in the process of translating passages.
Forms are easier to learn when repeated aloud.
This is an acquired skill and it comes with practice. Use flash cards to master Latin vocabulary. Accept that some memorization of the material is essential. If you do not balk at the task, you have won half the battle. When I first studied Latin, I made it a habit at the beginning of each new chapter to make flash cards of the vocabulary.