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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Latin. Seriously, it helps them understand English so much better.[/quote]

Latin will also help them in science classes. This is true from medical fields to any majors that include biology such as environmental conservation.[/quote]

Agree with this! Sadly our high school just decided to eliminate all Latin classes, right before school started. [/quote]

I agree with this as well. It always gets ridiculed for being dead, and many schools don't offer it, but Latin is SUPER helpful with English. I totally rocked the SAT thanks to my Latin classes. And in a strange twist, when I took German in HS, I was the only student who instantly understood cases.[/quote]

Everything I need to know about English grammar I learned in Latin.[/quote]

Truth![/quote]

DP. I think Latin is highly overrated in this regard. I got 800s on the English part of the SAT and the English SAT 2 and a 5 on the English AP, all without any study beyond my actual schooling, and I speak French because I studied an extent language from middle school through college. It's fine to study Latin if you enjoy it, but its usefulness is exaggerated.[/quote]

People need to justify to themselves what they did was not a waste. So the invent various rationales for it.[/quote]

Super weird responses.  I also got an 800 on the SAT verbal, but I attribute that score almost entirely to having taken Latin.  Hmmm… it’s almost as if we had totally different experiences in school, which doesn’t make sense for such a tiny, homogeneous country.

Oh well.  I guess I am just trying to justify not having taken and promptly forgotten basic Spanish or French in high school 🤷🏻‍♀️[/quote]

Why not both? I attribute my SAT success to studying Greek and Latin roots. I also took Spanish, and I currently have opportunities to use it IRL. I like that I can communicate with all the parents from my child's dual language immersion class. [/quote]

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