Let Them Learn Latin (Latinam Linguam Comperiant)

Posted on July 18, 2009 by R. Scott Clark

At the Atlantic (HT: Alan Jacobs)

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  1. George, on July 18th, 2009 at 9:18 am Said:

    Latin used to be required coursework for those who were on an academic track (college bound) when I was in junior high school back in the early 60’s. Not sure what happened.

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  2. drollord, on July 18th, 2009 at 10:30 am Said:

    -William Gardner Hale, professor of Latin at Cornell many moons ago, put out a nice piece: The Art of Reading Latin. I have read it and it contains immense wisdom regarding the learning of another language.

    It’s here:
    http://books.google.com/books?id=HB0BAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=William+gardner+Hale&ei=0fthSvT-M6eQyATgsby_DQ

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  3. "Lee N. Field", on July 18th, 2009 at 1:38 pm Said:

    How much of what he says is also applicable to Greek?

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  4. David A Booth, on July 18th, 2009 at 2:20 pm Said:

    I agree with Lee: Why not “Let Them Learn Greek?”

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  5. R. Scott Clark, on July 18th, 2009 at 2:40 pm Said:

    The older approach was to start w/ Latin and thence to Greek, which is Latin w/funny letters.

    Once one has Latin one has the structure of Latin one also has the structure of Greek.

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  6. Robert W. McDowell, M.D., on July 20th, 2009 at 6:48 pm Said:

    Thank you for this post!
    Robert W. McDowell,
    Past President (1968-69), Indiana Junior Classical League.

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  7. Alberto, on July 24th, 2009 at 11:22 pm Said:

    I wish someone would have been interested in teaching me Latin.

    Latin may be a dead language, but it is still used for some modern literature. I saw a Harry Potter book in Latin at a Barnes and Noble. I could understand enough to read that it said Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone and not Sorcerer’s Stone.

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