Latin was hugely useful in learning other languages as far as I was concerned. It's a lot harder than most European languages and as you say, when you understand the grammar, the rest is considerably easier.
could be an uneducated genius and ya missing out on alot by not listening... there are more than a few reasons why some cant use the english language to the standard you would like!! laziness may or may not be the most common....
Sorry @johnv I didn't mean it as admonishment. Your one of the people on here that I almost always agree with & Yes it was funny the second time around too. God knows I post pics and stuff up several times should I feel it merits it. I was only commenting that on here as far as I'm aware Char was the first to post. Lowers his head and gets the sackcloth and ashes
On this forum, I give pretty much everyone the benefit of the doubt until I can see that I consistently don't agree with what they have to say. That's pretty rare. But would I buy something from an eBay seller with a load of mistakes in his ad? No, I wouldn't. If they can't get that right....
When it comes to learning languages you're the expert @gliddofglood , and I am pleased to bow to your knowledge.
No problem, I didn't take it as admonishment, and always willing to recognise when something has been posted before
I was in the top stream, mainly due to mathematical and scientific skills, and consequently put in the Latin class. OMG.
In mine the dumber half were made to do woodwork instead of Latin, on the basis that they obviously were not going to be applying to university, or at least not to Oxbridge. In those days, Oxford entrance included an obligatory Latin paper for everyone. If you hadn't done enough Latin to translate a passage unseen accurately, you couldn't get in regardless of whatever else you knew or what subject you were to study.
thats terrible... no wonder we only have a certain type of educated person from your generation....:Bag::Sorry:
Being born in 1954 I managed to get to university without any foreign language qualifications at all. God, standards were slipping even then
Well the only level of foreign language taught now (unless you choose to take it further into higher education) is saying your name and asking for directions to the local swimming pool or disco. That's all I remember anyway.
I still feel a bit pissed off that I didn't get to do woodwork or metalwork. It was physics or woodwork (so physics, then, even if I didn't like studying it) and chemistry or metalwork (so chemistry, which I did like). When we got to minorities at A level, I think it was music (I couldn't play anything), possibly art (I draw like a spastic), British Constitution (probably interesting now, not remotely then) or Russian. I really wanted to do German, but one guy from the German stream wanted to do another language, all the rest of us were doing French. So Russian it was. The books were printed on Soviet bog paper and smelt funny (albeit not like that...). Not a great choice. I was already doing Latin, French and Spanish and the minority was meant to be some light relief. Why didn't they offer woodwork then?
Did woodwork & metalwork instead of art French and German were compulsory I can't remember any German other than they called me Manfred