> What benefit is there of learning Latin? I had to do 10 years of Latin; I hated it. I eventually scraped a bare pass on my second try at the exam. I'm sure

> What benefit is there of learning Latin? I had to do 10 years of Latin; I hated it. I eventually scraped a bare pass on my second try at the exam. I'm sure my knowledge of my mother-tongue, English, is much enhanced by having studied Latin. To the extent that cognition is verbal[0], knowing your own language better must improve cognition? [0] I suspect the researchers' definition of cognition is carefully tuned to exclude verbal thinking.