<p>Well I mean technically Latin is dead.
I am having a dilemma for my upcoming junior year schedule. The normal course load at my school is 5 classes, four are required (hum,math,science,language). I have chosen to take french in addition to these four classes. However I am looking to add another class and as of right now I am confused. Should I add music (private lessons) that are only half a class but still require 6 hours of practice time a week or should I add another language (latin) that requires the standard 6 hours a week in addition to class time? OR should I just be content with 5 classes and not add either? HELP Please!
Thank you.</p>
<p>anybody? anybody at all? advices/recs?</p>
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Which has absolutely nothing to do with learning it. A dead language is merely one that is no longer evolving (ie, English is a living language). Latin is “dead” since all the parts that were evolving already became other languages. It’s still a perfectly real language.</p>
<p>Is it Spanish, French, Latin? That’s probably the easiest trio, given the relation, though it will still be a lot of work. Only you know what you’re able to handle.</p>
<p>Complementary trio, but a bad idea if you are aiming for fluency. Otherwise, take as many languages at a time as you can fit.</p>
<p>Take as many as you can handle. Latin is very good to learn, not only will it help you do very, very well on the SAT. But you will gain a better understanding of English, and all the Romance languages (French, Portugese, Spanish, Italian, & Romanian). So yes take Latin, it will help you in te long run.</p>
<p>What is the third language (We already know one is latin and one is french). If it’s spanish, french will be very similar. Actually, Latin will also, plus many english words come from Latin origins. </p>
<p>If you’re looking to be a Polyglot, then three languages will be fine.</p>
<p>Latin will probably help you with french. But if the third language isn’t similar then its a bad idea. I tried to learn french and Arabic at the same time once and it went terribly because they have nothing to do with each other.</p>
<p>Hell no I say! If you’re throwing in APs, you’re gonna suffer. If you’re starting out, learning all three in the early stage is just setting you up for trouble.</p>
<p>Unless you’re a linguistic major, I highly reccommend no. My friend speaks 6 languages, and is taking Japanese 4 and French 3. No more. He learns Arabic and Finnish in his spare time, but throw in 2 APs and it becomes chaotic. Even for a linguistic major.</p>
<p>Just pick one and go with it seriously. You might be fluent, and you could learn something else like art or econ.</p>
<p>I think it’s too much. I’m learning French and Chinese. They’re killing me.</p>
<p>I am already fluent in Spanish (taking AP). Does this change anything?</p>
<p>Yep, that means both french and latin will be easier for you. I personally decided to stop french after 2 years because I struggled but if you’re good at languages then it shouldn’t be a problem.</p>
<p>Ap =/= fluent in spanish. Nowhere close.</p>
<p>If you’ve never taken a language before, do not start with a trio. Latin is an inflected language, and if you don’t know what that means then just Google it. You’re in for a nasty surprise when it comes to cases. I made the mistake of trying to learn Polish as my first second language…they have seven cases, which makes Latin look tame.</p>
<p>A double of just French and Spanish would probably be workable, assuming you have the right kind of mind for languages. And by that I mean you’re analytical, have a good memory, can see connections, etc.</p>