<p>Anyone taking Latin in 9th Grade? Any pros & cons for the four years..or is it better to continue with French</p>
<p>i take latin but im in 10th, but i also took it last year.
best idea i made.
umm how long have you been learning french</p>
<p>french was through middle school...3 years</p>
<p>I was thinking of doing French next year along with Latin III... but that all depends if i get into BS now. </p>
<p>I would say continue with french. Latin has so many declensions and tenses. noun declensions you must know in order by case, number and gender which goes something like... a ae ae am a ae arum is as is us i o um o i orum is os is um i o um o a orum is a is blank is i em e es um ium ibus es ibus
sorry i have this "National Latin Exam" tomorrow and that was my practicing haha
but i think you would get used to them if you want to go for it. my teacher just drills it into our head</p>
<p>I'm hoping to take Latin and continue with French next year.</p>
<p>My son took 4 years of Latin mainly because he didn't want to have to "speak" a language. But it helped him a lot with his vocabulary, especially on the SATs.</p>
<p>i think it is a good idea to continue with french if that's what you've been learning .
latin is complicated because of so many declensions and cases .
i took it through middle school and am taking it in high school . but if you 've been learning french ,stick with that .</p>
<p>Latin's a dead language, guys. it's better to do french -- one pro is that it is still alive. :)</p>
<p>I did latin in 6th grade and it wasn't bad. if you're into that type of thing i guess it's okay.......but i'd still opt for french....or chinese!! I'm doing chinese and it's pretty cool -- but maybe you'd just rather stick with french...</p>
<p>I want to take two languages next year if I go to the local prep school; definitely French and debating whether or not to take Spanish or Latin. Probably Latin because I sat in on a class there and it seemed really cool. They only speak French in French class which is pretty cool.</p>
<p>" latina non est mortuus. latina est immortales. "
that's what it says in big painted letters across one of the walls of our classroom.
it means latin isn't dead, latin is immortal .
i probably sound out of my mind to all of you , but in every latin class i've ever been in , if you said that latin is dead to the teacher , she'd cut of your fingers . ( well , no . but she'd threaten to )
plus the roots live on in every romance language. so its a good foundation to learn any other language .</p>
<p>that's the most common defense, of course....but think about it -- the rewards of learning another language like chinese, arabic, spanish, french, etc. vs. the rewards of learning latin, a dead language, which you do not really use to speak -- it's heavier on the other side of the scale.</p>
<p>I don't know, it depends on what you want to do. Some of the greatest works of literature of all time are in Latin, and you simply cannot appreciate them when translated into another language (so my dad, who could probably speak Latin like English if he needed to, says). If you care about or are interesting in any of that, then Latin should be learned.</p>
<p>and I'm not going against that at all, prettyckitty, and if you're that kind of person who wants to sit down and read homer as your ultimate prize for laboring over a language, then go for it. </p>
<p>it's not a bad thing. I don't mean that at all. I'm just saying that there's more benefits to learning any of the other languages i mentioned. for example, if you want to go into the CIA, then they'll love that you have chinese or arabic.</p>
<p>That's true. For the majority of people, learning other languages are more beneficial. I'm just saying that for a handful of people, Latin will have more benefits.</p>
<p>i think that learning latin is beneficial because when you do go to learn spanish or french or italian, it becomes so much easier . my parents bought my family the spanish rosetta stone , and because i have a three year latin base, i found it easy to get through & i am almost done with the first level (it's only been a month . they say it takes 5-6 months to get through it )
but i probably don't have the best perspective because i am already biligual . ( i am indian & i speak an indian language )</p>
<p>that's a very diplomatic answer, prettyckitty. you're making it very hard for me to contradict it. :)</p>
<p>where are you applying reyidizzle? I'm sure that the bilingual, and the other nationality besides chinese or other asian country will help a lot.</p>
<p>yeah...and that's the benefit of learning latin. but now if you want to go into business or international relations (china is becoming a serious world power), then go for a language like chinese. it just depends on what you want to do.</p>
<p>Well, I think we mostly agree, jlg. I'm kind of prejudiced for Latin, because my dad is so into it. He was a Classic major in college, is fluent, has a collection of books that I think Homer might find a bit intimidating, etc. When I was about two or three, I accidentally confused "Plato" with "Play-Doh". That was a very long lecture. :D</p>
<p>In my naivete I always thought a language was supposed to provide the key to enter a culture. This means you have to master a language well enough to be able to read it without translating it to yourself. Since the roots of western civilisation are in greek and roman antiquity as transformed by the experience of Christianity, it is almost impossible to become truly literate without having at least some Latin and Greek in your skillset. As the world globalizes, some Russian,Arabic and Chinese might also be very good bets. This goes way beyond the ability to decipher the menu in a restaurant, but to enter into the thought world of a culture that may perhaps be foreign to you. At a moment in time when the more moronic of our knownothings are contemplating another propaganda exercise in moslem demonization, some greater linguistic competence if only to build a private b.s. detector when your "dear leader" lies to you once again might be a useful skill to acquire. So learn all the languages you can</p>