Amy, one of the nice things about Latin is, as it's never really spoken (outside of Mass, where you start picking up the repeated stuff right fast), there's no problem at all with learning it from books.

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I always wanted to learn Latin, to tell the truth. I don't know if I'd make the effort now, since it would be nicer to learn a language I could speak if I went abroad. And I'd stick with French, since I took starting in seventh grade, and through two years in college.

I took a year of Latin in the 8th or 9th grade, and another year in the 11th grade. It's very regular, so it's pretty easy to learn. And you'd be able to associate the words from related words in English. I don't remember much, but for example, 'agricola' is farmer. See (Agriculture)?

The sad thing? I can conjugate a handful of verbs, and I retained some nouns as vocabulary, but that's about it.

That's me with Spanish, and I took it from the 8th grade, all the way through high school, and somewhere in my college years, I took a semester or two, but it felt like a quantum leap in comparison to what I'd had in an honors level high school class. The teacher was Cuban or at least of Cuban ancestry. I don't know if that was the difference (my high school teachers were all Gringos).

In his case, it was more of a "not turning in homework" thing, I think. When it became something he could choose, and part of a career, he excelled.

He probably needed it to matter to him. I hope I can keep this perspective when my own kids are that age, but ahahahahahahaHA. I doubt it.

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It probably is part of it, Cindy. If you take Latin, it impresses Pembleton fans. Hearing Braugher speak Latin makes me want to speak it myself.

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I don't remember much, but for example, 'agricola' is farmer. See (Agriculture)?

See, that's what I always thought about Latin! (That, if nothing else, it would help me in Scrabble and crossword puzzles when it came to word roots and such. Signed, So Not an Academic.) One day when I have loads of time...

::falls over laughing::

there's no problem at all with learning it from books

As long as you don't speak it in front of them, right?

::rim shot::

I have to reiterate what a hotly contested commodity my blanket still is. The kids all claim it's theirs. I have to sneak away with it when I want to wrap up and be snuggly.

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It probably is part of it, Cindy. If you take Latin, it impresses Pembleton fans. Hearing Braugher speak Latin makes me want to speak it myself.

Oh, I bet. You know, Latin is so rule abiding, you could probably teach it to yourself.

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#1 Single: there was a marathon on Style. The last one had Lisa meeting Michael's parents, Michael telling Lisa that he got a recurring role on a tv show and is moving out to LA and then asking Lisa to move out to LA with him.

It felt kind of like a last episode. Of course, I ran to the IMDB to see if I could find out what show Michael (Panes) got that recurring role in. And had no luck. Oh well.

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The sad thing? I can conjugate a handful of verbs, and I retained some nouns as vocabulary, but that's about it.

My conjugation, and many verbs, were totally gone. It was really bad. Apparently my accent was OK (people could understand me), but I was that joker going, "Are you knowing how to tell me for the museum? I want to be the museum? Help, please?"

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OK, sumi, yeah, that was the last one I saw, and I think it was the last one.

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I was that joker going, "Are you knowing how to tell me for the museum? I want to be the museum? Help, please?"

Sadly, that's me speaking English when I first get up in the morning.

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Hee!

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