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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My inattentive ADHD son with low processing speed takes French and Latin. French because it's our native language, and Latin because it's mostly written, not oral, and that really helps him in the processing speed department, where verbal fluency is a problem. He's also pretty good in computer science, even though it's also a language, but not a spoken language. Everything is written out and pondered over.
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Processing speed, attention, and working memory are three totally different things. OP describes her son as low in working memory so Latin is going to be unduly hard.

OP, the state department rates how easy and hard languages are to learn and Spanish and French are in the easiest category. Go with that. [/quote]

But you need to conjugate on the fly with spoken languages. You don’t with Latin although you do need to decline nouns, but that piece is actually helpful for understanding English grammar. If OP’s son needs to take this for four years he will be expected to speak the language. [b]Is Latin on the state department website?[/b] [/quote]

No, Latin isn't, because no one working in the Foreign Service (who the list is for) will be using Latin. Here's the list: https://www.fsi-language-courses.org/blog/fsi-language-difficulty/
See Spanish and French in Category 1 and Mandarin in Category 5.[/quote]

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