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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. But if one had to rank.. Latin would be at the top[/quote]

Mandarin Chinese is not only more difficult for a native English speaker to master, but pragmatically it’s not even a fair fight. Latin will come in handy when you’re planning to storm the Vatican or if you ever gain access to a time machine … for literally everything else, bet on Mandarin Chinese.[/quote]

The practical aspects are not really what studying languages are about. You can do Rosetta Stone or babel or whatever to learn to speak conversationally much faster.  It’s about the academic rigor of it.  I’m not in a position to assess the differences, but latin is well respected for its required logic.   That’s true of much of what we study.  How many people use Euclidean geometry practically?   Yet everyone takes it.  Lawyers, bankers, consultants, accountants, lobbyists, etc rarely use anything beyond algebra 1, yet most of us took calculus at some point.  Colleges are not trade schools. [/quote]

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