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Posted: March 18 2011 at 10:30pm | IP Logged Quote Mary K
I'm not sure where to post this question. My 13 yodd is interested in learning a variety of languages. She thinks she may want to be an interpreter. Would learning Latin be a good idea? Any thoughts about which program to use? She'd like to learn Spanish and French eventually. She is learning American Sign Language.
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Posted: March 19 2011 at 10:09am | IP Logged Quote cathhomeschool
I think Latin is helpful in preparing for the SATs, but there are many ways to do that without Latin! Though Spanish and French are romance languages and have similar grammatical structures to Latin, I don't know that it would necessarily help her to learn Latin first. She won't have as many opportunities to practice Latin if she takes it on her own, so retention might be an issue. (I spoke Spanish fluently and took a little French before taking Latin. The Spanish background made learning Latin much easier. My older boys are taking Latin but they also have some Spanish background already. I don't think the Latin will help them progress faster in their Spanish.)

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