Hear, hear! It can help with vocabulary, especially if you know a little bit about how things changed on their way to some Romance language you're trying to com

Hear, hear! It can help with vocabulary, especially if you know a little bit about how things changed on their way to some Romance language you're trying to communicate in, e.g. working your way back from Spanish "hongo" to Latin "fungus" (the "f" -> "h" switch is pretty common, e.g. ferrum -> hierro, facere -> hacer).