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.
Absolutely YES. I went on to do other languages and the foundation of grammar and syntax was invaluable, even with non Latin based languages such as German, To this day, I often fall back on Latin when reading a menu in a European language I do not speak.
I also reckon there were transferrable skills when I started to program as again there is a grammar and a syntax,