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[quote=Anonymous] I took 7 years of Latin. I speak three living languages. What I got out of Latin in school as much as anything was social. We were a small group that stuck with Latin, and all got on quite well. We also got to go to Latin Convention in high school, which was fun. There were toga parties, and lots of awards and tests to achieve that looked good (but I doubt were influential on college apps). There was/is some benefit for learning cognates and parsing out unfamiliar vocabulary, but I think it is kind of marginal. One might have the same benefits from another Romance language (not sure on this since I don't know another Romance language). I am not sure on that point, though. I happen to really like learning languages so understanding how grammar can work was interesting. The history and mythology was fun, and it is good general knowledge to have when reading literature (so you know an author talking about Mars didn't mean the planet, etc.) and if one studies humanities/social sciences later on kind of useful. On the other hand, I went to law school and did not find Latin to be useful there like they told us it would be back in middle school. Also, because I never spoke Latin I lost most of it. I can't use it in the workplace, like I can with the other languages I speak. I feel like it was a good experience, and one I would not want to replace. Still, I later realized a love for languages and likely would have enjoyed studying Spanish more because I could have spoken it and used it to travel. That is a long way of saying Latin is pretty cool, but probably not worth it just because it seems better. 
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