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[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]

PP's anecdotal story about herself is not evidence but essentially this argument: "because I got an 800 on the English SAT and scored a 5 on the English AP without having studied Latin, this means Latin doesn't make you score higher on such tests."

In addition to improving vocabulary, there is evidence studying Latin helps with logic. Ahem.

Anyhoo, here are some links to read.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/655970/summary
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1944-9720.1977.tb02999.x
http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/files/latin.html
https://www.bolchazy.com/Assets/Bolchazy/extras/LatinAdvantageandSATscores.pdf
https://www.brainscape.com/academy/learning-latin-roots-to-improve-sat-scores/
https://www.memoriapress.com/articles/latin-develops-mind/

By the way, for those concerned about college, a few years ago the Dean of Admissions at Harvard said that having Latin on a transcript made an applicant stand out.
https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/high-school-latin-catches-attention-of-selective-universities/article_090c5787-20c3-54d2-8a38-15d24116b4f2.html

[quote]Students nationwide are finding that excelling in high school Latin can propel them to the most selective colleges, including Harvard University, whose undergraduate admission rate was 6.9 percent this year. Because so few students these days master Latin, it can help an applicant.

“We certainly do take notice,” said William Fitzsimmons, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate admissions and financial aid. “It can end up tipping the student into the class.”[/quote]

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