In school I didn't get it. The way it was taught was (at least to me) making it more difficult to understand anything about the grammar and the structure of the

In school I didn't get it. The way it was taught was (at least to me) making it more difficult to understand anything about the grammar and the structure of the language. In university I had a great teacher. She was able to show (with colored pens) the way Latin declinations are being constructed. I only had to understand the pattern and could re-/deconstruct from there. Same with sentence structure were she taught us how to parse sentences and think of them in terms of math formulas with lots of brackets and how to ensure that ever open bracket is being closed again and how to find the main sentence first and start from there. 4 hours a week of intensive schooling and about 20 - 30 hours of homework (next to my regular course work).