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Being 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 le
by wolfgke 10y ago
Being 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.