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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS took Spanish in MS and hated it. He switched to Latin in HS and liked it so much that he's considering majoring in it.

She should take what she thinks will be most interesting.[/quote]

Congrats to your DS!  Now he can speak with the, um . . . ancient Romans?  Oh, wait!  He can understand the Latin Mass!  That's the ticket![/quote]

Lol this wins for most ignorant DCUM comment today.[/quote]

Why?   What good does taking high school Latin do other than prepare you for the SAT? Who do you talk to?[/quote]

It’s necessary for studying Classics and opens up a fascinating part of western history, improves English language vocabulary (yes, for the SAT but also beyond that), provides a base for learning any Romance language much more easily, helps kids learn the grammatical structures that underpin these languages, etc.[/quote]

I'm the pp whose son loves Latin. He's a math kid -- he's enjoying learning grammar and thinking about the specifics of linguistics structure and the discussions they have in class about translation, word choice, and vocabulary. It's certainly not as useful for communication as Spanish, but he wasn't going to become fluent in Spanish through high school classes -- if he wants to learn Spanish later, he can do an immersion program. [/quote]

I wish I could meet you in real life because my DS sounds a lot like yours. He's only in middle school, but has been teaching himself Latin for years now, along with Ancient Greek, since he can't take Latin in school until 9th grade. He's also a huge math kid. I could absolutely see him majoring in Latin one day. [/quote]

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