Comments on: 5 Days of Latin: Why Study Latin?

By: Sara Dennis

Sara Dennis — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:43:13 +0000

In reply to amy. Isn't it! I love looking at all the derivatives and brainstorming with my kids to see how many more we can come up with. :-)

By: amy

amy — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:44:10 +0000

So far my very favorite thing about learning Latin is seeing how we get so many of our English words. It is just fascinating to me!

By: Sara Dennis

Sara Dennis — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:18:38 +0000

In reply to Carol. No, I hadn't seen the video. I love how Bill Carey talks about how much more beautiful the works are in the original Latin. Thanks for sharing, Carol!

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 02:40:14 +0000

I thought the Guardian article you linked to was great especially this:
“The most frequent charge laid against the door of Latin – aside from the absurd accusation of elitism – is that it is useless. Why not learn Mandarin, people ask, or Russian or French? For me the pleasure of Latin is precisely because – aside from the points sketched above – it is “useless”. Latin doesn’t help to turn out factory-made mini-consumers fit for a globalised 21st-century society. It helps create curious, intellectually rigorous kids with a rich interior world, people who have the tools to see our world as it really is because they have encountered and imaginatively experienced another that is so like, and so very unlike, our own.”

Have you seen this? https://vimeo.com/68541374