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Honestly, for your purposes it sounds like learning basic Latin would be a much better choice. Having Latin syntax and vocab in the back of my mind definitely h
by benbreen 10y ago
Honestly, for your purposes it sounds like learning basic Latin would be a much better choice. Having Latin syntax and vocab in the back of my mind definitely helped when I was learning French and Portuguese (even though my Latin is terrible, just knowing things like verb conjugations helped a lot with seeing the patterns in what initially looked like arbitrary differences between the two languages).
- wolfgke 10y agoBeing native in German I found having to learn Latin in school didn't help me in any sense for French, Spanish or Portuguese. If you like Latin, feel free to learn it. But I consider it as a waste of time, in particular if you just want it to learn as a foundation for modern foreign languages.
- barking 10y agoMakes sense to me what you say. People often say that knowing latin is good if you want to study medicine. It's ridiculous. Learning a list of 100 relevant latin root-words would likely achieve as much.