<p>Would Latin 1 be more time consuming and take longer to learn since I've never learned Latin, whereas I've done a year of Spanish.. Which language is tougher to learn?</p>
<p>Um… the question is, why would you want to learn latin? It’s a dead language, while Spanish is spoken widely across the Americas and, well, Spain. I would say Spanish is more useful, unless it has been your lifelong ambition to read The Conquest of Gaul in the original latin or something.</p>
<p>As for difficulty, Spanish, like French and Italian, is based off latin. They should be around the same difficulty to SPEAK, but if you have prior experience with a ‘romance’ language Spanish will maybe be slightly easier? There will definitely be more resources for learning Spanish, so it will probably be easier to LEARN.</p>
<p>latin helps with vocabulary, reading, and writing. This helps in school and on the SAT. Also, latin terms are common in medicine and law.</p>
<p>@Paintallthestuff Why are you hating on Latin? It’s very useful. How about you take a course or two.</p>
<p>@OP, If you already did a year of Spanish, just continue. Colleges love when students stick with a language.</p>
<p>I would stick with Spanish.</p>
<p>You have Spanish 2 Honors??? My weighted GPA got ruined because our school doesn’t offer Honors before Spanish 3.</p>
<p>spanish 2 honors is also notoriously tough, so your GPA could be ruined either way…</p>
<p>I’m obviously biased because I chose Latin I CP over Spanish II Honors when I was a Freshman - but Latin is incredibly helpful in the English language. Not only does it help with vocabulary as others have mentioned, but it has improved the syntactical style of my writing since very few current styles of American literature are as dynamic as the epic poems, orations, or stories written by Roman authors or poets in original Latin. My performance in English classes, including AP English Lang, and my Critical Reading SAT score, are all thanks to Latin.</p>
<p>Latin is dead in the sense that no one speaks it as a native language, however, it is extremely relevant in the world of medicine and law as well as exists a major component of the Catholic Church. My Latin teacher, who had received her PhD in Latin and Greek from Columbia (or UPenn, not sure) - learned the Italian language fluently in a matter of 2 weeks. That is how strong Latin is rooted in modern romance languages.</p>
<p>Latin wasn’t challenging for me my first year, especially since it was basic level, and it has yet to become incredibly difficult since - I’ll be entering Latin IV next year (senior year) and it has always been one of my best classes. I’ve heard horror stories about Spanish, especially at higher levels, from some of my friends who take Spanish.</p>
<p>Spanish is helpful, yes, many people speak it, indeed - however, I believe that anyone can learn Spanish relatively easily as there are many opportunities to do so - my Father works at a community college with a very large Latino population and picked up most of the language just through conversations and hearing it spoken all the time. It isn’t the same case for Latin. My teacher told me that Latin isn’t offered as broadly as Spanish and many students who want to study Latin are denied the opportunity. </p>
<p>Take advantage of it. Who knows, you may fall in love with just as I have. :)</p>
<p>I don’t think it matters that Latin is a dead language. It’s not like you’re going to know how to speak Spanish for real after taking it in high school anyway. I got out of Spanish II in January and I remember like two words.</p>
<p>I think you should take Spanish 2 honors. I finished Spanish 2 this year, and we learned very important phrases and vocab that’s relevant to the real world. For example, we learned how to order food, how to navigate in an airport, etc. Plus, many employers look for people who can also speak Spanish because it is quite common to have Spanish-speaking clients.</p>
<p>Take Latin!! Latin gives you the chance to win national awards via the National Latin Exam, which is a nice thing to put on college apps. It also really helped me learn vocab!</p>
<p>there are no awards like those for the Spanish Exam?</p>
<p>Not that I’ve heard of.</p>
<p>so maybe I should take Latin then…</p>
<p>which one is more time consuming to learn/study? I’m taking other Honors classes and a few time consuming ECs, so just wondering…</p>
<p>As someone who is taking AP Latin this upcoming year, I can attest to its awesomeness. Sure, I sometimes regret not taking a “speakable” language. But Rome’s culture & history are really cool as is the language that was spoken there 2,000 years ago.</p>
<p>I had the choice between Latin 2H and Spanish 1 and I chose Spanish 1 because I wanted to learn a modern language. I think Latin was really helpful in English classes at the Latin 1 level but it does get tougher so if your willing to stick with it…then i think you should do it. Also, the National Latin Exam is so easy. I don’t think you should even base what your going to choose off of that. I am horrible at Latin but I did very well in the NLE so it doesn’t say much if you did well.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll stick with Spanish, and find awards elsewhere…</p>
<p>There are national exams for Spanish. Look at this website:</p>
<p>[NSE</a> News](<a href=“http://www.nationalspanishexam.org/]NSE”>http://www.nationalspanishexam.org/)</p>
<p>That being said, both my sons benefited/benefit from taking Latin. The positive effects rippled through education.</p>