<p>Hi. My current school is on a block schedule, and I've already taken French I and French II. I can take French III next semester, and will work pretty diligently at it to become fluent in it. Now, if I take French III next semester, should I take Latin I junior year, or take Advanced Topics in Foreign Language? If I take Latin I junior year, I can take Latin II senior year, and seeing as how I plan to go into medicine, Latin can be very helpful.</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>Latin is good, is French 3 the highest your school offers…?</p>
<p>Actually, Latin isn’t really the focus of most medical terminology, Greek is - and with modern medicine, its continuing to move away from most of its Latin origins. Latin is a bit more helpful for law than it is medicine, though I presume Latin might help with some roots - overall, in medical school, you’re gonna have to learn the terms anyway, regardless if you have a Latin background or not.</p>
<p>Well, my current school only offers up to French III, and the math/science academy I plan to attend has an additional class called “Advanced Topics in Foreign Language.” I was thinking, however, that maybe I could work on French intensively over the summer or something; I’m already pretty good at it and I think that after this year, I’ll be almost fluent.
If I do that, I can just skip Advanced Topics and take another FL.</p>
<p>Preamble, if I can find a Greek class, should I take it over Latin?</p>
<p>@TeamRocketGrunt - Yes, I think Greek would benefit you more. I personally love Latin but I know that Greek is much more relevant to medicine than Latin is. Greek is also a bit more difficult than Latin as Greek has a completely different set of characters while Latin is usually taught in recognizable characters, like “Dum spiro, spero” - not the traditional DUMSPIROSPERO.</p>