New Posts For Thread: Why is French taught in schools, and not Latin?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31446023/why-is-french-taught-in-schools-and-not-latinSuppression?I certainly learnt about tenses etc from Latin and English made more sense after.I can't say I ever liked Latin, but it has been very useful. My wife is particularly jealous of my knowledge in determining what many words, whose roots are in Latin, mhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31446023/why-is-french-taught-in-schools-and-not-latin?post_id=555490801#555490801I certainly learnt about tenses etc from Latin and English made more sense after.I can't say I ever liked Latin, but it has been very useful. My wife is particularly jealous of my knowledge in determining what many words, whose roots are in Latin, mFri, 07 Sep 2018 02:42:56 -0500Well, if I haven't convinced you of the usefulness of Latin by now, then there's no point trying any more.But the reason Latin is the best choice for a first 'hard' language to learn is the sheer familiarity of the vocabulary and the pronunciation. Nhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31446023/why-is-french-taught-in-schools-and-not-latin?post_id=555488917#555488917Well, if I haven't convinced you of the usefulness of Latin by now, then there's no point trying any more.But the reason Latin is the best choice for a first 'hard' language to learn is the sheer familiarity of the vocabulary and the pronunciation. NThu, 06 Sep 2018 16:55:33 -0500Learning a harder language first that is useless makes it harder to learn an easier language that is useful so they can't learn them? Makes absolutely no sense! It's like saying people can't do the breast stroke because they didn't start with the buthttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31446023/why-is-french-taught-in-schools-and-not-latin?post_id=555487083#555487083Learning a harder language first that is useless makes it harder to learn an easier language that is useful so they can't learn them? Makes absolutely no sense! It's like saying people can't do the breast stroke because they didn't start with the butThu, 06 Sep 2018 13:52:28 -0500German grammar is really simplified and straightforward. It's the Slavic languages which mirror the numbers of cases and inflections of Latin.I couldn't make head nor tail of my dad's language (Ukrainian) until I was lucky enough to pass the 11-plus,https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31446023/why-is-french-taught-in-schools-and-not-latin?post_id=555486707#555486707German grammar is really simplified and straightforward. It's the Slavic languages which mirror the numbers of cases and inflections of Latin.I couldn't make head nor tail of my dad's language (Ukrainian) until I was lucky enough to pass the 11-plus,Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:00:36 -0500Learning the basic Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes is interesting and useful, and even some vocabulary, but there is a difference between knowing a vocabulary (i.e. recognising words) and an arcane sadistic heavily inflected grammar that isn'thttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31446023/why-is-french-taught-in-schools-and-not-latin?post_id=555486365#555486365Learning the basic Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes is interesting and useful, and even some vocabulary, but there is a difference between knowing a vocabulary (i.e. recognising words) and an arcane sadistic heavily inflected grammar that isn'tThu, 06 Sep 2018 11:54:40 -0500All these things are connected in some way I’m surehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31446023/why-is-french-taught-in-schools-and-not-latin?post_id=555486213#555486213All these things are connected in some way I’m sureThu, 06 Sep 2018 11:26:58 -0500And English of course , Latin was too difficult for the nativeshttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31446023/why-is-french-taught-in-schools-and-not-latin?post_id=555486207#555486207And English of course , Latin was too difficult for the nativesThu, 06 Sep 2018 11:25:54 -0500We had to teach it because we had the British Empirehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31446023/why-is-french-taught-in-schools-and-not-latin?post_id=555486201#555486201We had to teach it because we had the British EmpireThu, 06 Sep 2018 11:25:01 -0500That’s the way of most things anyway and you have only to look at the difference Latin makes to a schoolhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31446023/why-is-french-taught-in-schools-and-not-latin?post_id=555486137#555486137That’s the way of most things anyway and you have only to look at the difference Latin makes to a schoolThu, 06 Sep 2018 11:16:30 -0500I think it’s better to have Latin in schools even if most people have no use for it or even remember a wordhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31446023/why-is-french-taught-in-schools-and-not-latin?post_id=555486125#555486125I think it’s better to have Latin in schools even if most people have no use for it or even remember a wordThu, 06 Sep 2018 11:15:03 -0500