"Doss" lessons....
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It certainly does that, and instills a logical and organised approach to learning grammar.Great Plum wrote:Latin helped me a heck of a lot with other languages...
For example, if young Ludwig were to spend less time slurping tea and munching biccies, and a bit more time learning about ablative absolutes and suchlike, he might even find it possible to correctly construct a sentence in English, should he so desire.
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Oooh... rather mean of you!Richard Ruck wrote:It certainly does that, and instills a logical and organised approach to learning grammar.Great Plum wrote:Latin helped me a heck of a lot with other languages...
For example, if young Ludwig were to spend less time slurping tea and munching biccies, and a bit more time learning about ablative absolutes and suchlike, he might even find it possible to correctly construct a sentence in English, should he so desire.
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Oh, I don't think so. I'm only defending one of the few subjects I was ever any good at.Emma Jane wrote:Oooh... rather mean of you!Richard Ruck wrote:It certainly does that, and instills a logical and organised approach to learning grammar.Great Plum wrote:Latin helped me a heck of a lot with other languages...
For example, if young Ludwig were to spend less time slurping tea and munching biccies, and a bit more time learning about ablative absolutes and suchlike, he might even find it possible to correctly construct a sentence in English, should he so desire.
I DO know that I've just ended a sentence with a preposition, though.
More gin, I think.....
You didn't spot my split infinitive, then? Neither did I, for a while.
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Ummm... Latin was never a strong subject of mine. Art, Chemistry and German was more my cup of tea.Richard Ruck wrote:Oh, I don't think so. I'm only defending one of the few subjects I was ever any good at.
I DO know that I've just ended a sentence with a preposition, though.
More gin, I think.....
You didn't spot my split infinitive, then? Neither did I, for a while.
And enough with the gin.. I've got a tonic with a bit of lime here to make myself feel better
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I now consider myself almost bilingual in Spanish, having been in Latin America and Spain since 1970.
When I started Spanish in 1970, I only had a few classes in Guatemala before being thrown in at the deep end as a teacher in Costa Rica.
I discovered that I could get by with a combination of my basic spanish and when stuck for a word, I would think of an english word that probably had a latin origin. 9 times out of 10, when I said this word, my colleague would say, "Oh, you mean ....." using the correct word, and so the conversation would continue.
Like most people, I thought Latin was a waste of time, but it served me very well in learning Spanish, and I am sure the same could be said for learning Portuguese, Italian etc.
I also did some Dutch classes, where Latin was not useful, but my smattering of German was.
Maybe I am better at Spanish than Dutch because I passed Latin and failed German "O" levels.
At the end of the day, most things taught can be used sometime, even if they seem irrelevant in the class.
When I started Spanish in 1970, I only had a few classes in Guatemala before being thrown in at the deep end as a teacher in Costa Rica.
I discovered that I could get by with a combination of my basic spanish and when stuck for a word, I would think of an english word that probably had a latin origin. 9 times out of 10, when I said this word, my colleague would say, "Oh, you mean ....." using the correct word, and so the conversation would continue.
Like most people, I thought Latin was a waste of time, but it served me very well in learning Spanish, and I am sure the same could be said for learning Portuguese, Italian etc.
I also did some Dutch classes, where Latin was not useful, but my smattering of German was.
Maybe I am better at Spanish than Dutch because I passed Latin and failed German "O" levels.
At the end of the day, most things taught can be used sometime, even if they seem irrelevant in the class.
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Of course, it's hard to remember anything which seems immediately USEFUL about latin, except perhaps jhopgood's case... perhaps the benefit is merely part of making one a 'good rounded character'...
unfortunately i seem to have forgotten all of my latin in the course of the last six months (since exams last summer), except a few of those tables of noun endings so drummed in by the great CHK (servus, serve, servum, etc etc... not the most useful stuff)
unfortunately i seem to have forgotten all of my latin in the course of the last six months (since exams last summer), except a few of those tables of noun endings so drummed in by the great CHK (servus, serve, servum, etc etc... not the most useful stuff)
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