Originally Posted by
stevef
Just read this on the Internet:
Latin can improve your English vocabulary. Deepen your communication skills. Enhance critical thinking. Give you a new perspective on language.
Sounds like encyclopaedia salesmen patter to me. Has anyone who was force-fed Latin at school actually found any benefit in it? Even Kiswahili must be more useful to learn with an estimated 200 million first & second language speakers, rather than the odd Catholic priest mystifying his congregation with something that hasn't been widely spoken for over 1500 years.
IV, as the Roman golfer shouted.
And the answer to your question is a resounding NO!
What does annoy me is the time wasted, time I could have spent on other more useful subjects, including modern languages.