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[quote=Anonymous]I took Latin back in high school. One of the main reasons was because it was known that it was an easy A due to the teacher. The other reason is that I had no interest in the other languages offered at my school at the time (Spanish and French) and I think the thought was that a lot of the English language derived from Latin. So it would help with things like the SATs back when vocabulary was a part of it and as the other poster mentioned it helps with medical terms. Doing a quick search now, I see that English isn't directly derived from Latin like I thought back then. Also there's the National Latin exam, which is something that you can put on your college applications and resume to help pad things if you do well in it. In hindsight I think it would've been useful to learn a language that's pretty common in our area(Spanish). But as mentioned, I think part of the reasoning was that Latin would help more with academics.[/quote]
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