<p>Hey I'm wondering if anyone here's taken Latin at Michigan? I took 3 years of one of the more typical languages in high school (Spanish, French, German) and let me tell you that wasn't a fun experience. I'm in interested in Latin because I know it'll be implicitly more useful than continuing on with my high school language and because the Latin 101 track doesn't require one to be proficient at speaking it.</p>
<p>I'm just wondering how difficult the basic Latin track is?</p>
<p>I thought Latin was infamous for being hard. But if you are attracted to it then it might be easy.</p>
<p>I’m interested in it in the sense that if I had to pick a language to know, I’d pick Latin, but to be honest I’d much rather take math/social studies/science/literature classes…</p>
<p>I have a feeling if people consider Latin notoriously difficult among other languages then I don’t think I’ll do well, considering I did not do well studying new languages in high school.</p>
<p>Even though I don’t expect many people on this board to be familiar enough with the Latin program to adequately answer my question, I’m just going to bump this once in the hopes that someone can.</p>
<p>It would depend on why you’re not good at foreign languages. I suck at foreign languages but it’s because it’s difficult for me to process quickly enough to hear it and speak properly and not get left behind. Michigan latin has no spoken component, and I am good at the grammar and spelling aspect of foreign language, so it isn’t as hard for me. That aspect of latin is very complex, and if you weren’t good at it in the easier languages I am not sure that latin is your answer.</p>
<p>Are the rules of Latin consistent or are there millions of exceptions to everything?</p>
<p>The rules of Latin are pretty consistent in terms of verb/noun forms. However there are many different forms to learn.</p>