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I steadily flunked grammar in high school for my own native language (English) because I just couldn't wrap my head around such terms as predicate nominative or participle or what have you. I unsuccessfully attempted to teach myself Biblical Greek (did get the alphabet down though) in high school so I could graduate with a foreign language. In 2017 I took the first year of ancient Greek from Siena College where they taught Homeric Greek first.

Now I'm at Harvard's Extension School, which does not allow you to major/minor in classics or classical philology (the only reason I returned to school was to study these) but they still offer the courses so I'm just taking them all until I run out. Then I'll finish my degree. Ancient Greek taught me more about English grammar than all the years of my schooling combined...and I have a degree in English already. And Latin will provide a solid base for muddling your way through Spanish texts in a pinch. You made great points all around, I couldn't agree more because I've done what you've explained.

Shoot, I found similarities between Japanese and ancient Greek. Studying ancient languages is useful across the board, and if anyone ever feels like Latin is too hard I can say from personal experience, it's a lot easier than Old English.

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I’d love to study Anglo-Saxon eventually. I love Beowulf so much.

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Thank you for the book recommendations.

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Thank you 🙏

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always a pleasure to read

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Thanks my friend!

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Just as teaching the phonograms helps students learn to read faster so that they can read to learn. So learning the latin grammar forms by chanting five minutes a day is important to learning Latin *so that* one can read, write, and speak Latin faster.

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Of course!

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