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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS is in 8th grade and has taken Spanish for 3 years. Soon, he has to choose which language to take next year in high school. He doesn't love Spanish and wants to try something different. The other choices are French, Latin and German. He is trying to decide between German and Latin. How difficult are these languages to learn? Spanish is the only one I could help him with. TIA![/quote]

The one he is interested in is the best one to choose.

My DC is taking Latin and French. DC has found that Latin has helped with the French a great deal, because things are made explicit in Latin that are "understood" in French. It could be that DC's Latin teachers have been better than the French teachers, but I think it's more that with a dead language you can lay down rules more easily, and Latin grammar is very precise. DC prefers Latin because there is no speaking required, and the analysis of translation is interesting to DC.

Can your son ask around and find out about the teachers, what the workload is like, and how the language progresses? At my DC's school, Latin has a lot of students drop out after the 2nd year because it gets significantly harder. French has remained fairly consistent all the way through.[/quote]

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