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I'm not surprised. I took Latin in HS for 2 years. The first year was instructive. The second year, after the teacher from the first year died, we had a batty old lady who -- no joke -- was barely north of a nervous breakdown. I don't know if she had had a stroke or just wasn't very bright (not good for a teacher). Anyway, I learned less Latin that second year than in the first 3 days of the previous year. Needless to say, I pretty much took the year off but still made a good grade.
In college, I needed 4 semesters, and a local college offered all 14 hours of a language during a summer "intensive" program. The only two classes offered were Latin and Portuguese. I would have taken Spanish if offered, but decided against Port. and still had to take the class. Turns out the Prof was a little laid back. Smart, and knew the material well, but the class was supposed to run 8-12. He arrived at about 8:10 at the earliest. By about the third week, I started getting there at 8:30 to his greeting of, "good morning __, how's it going", and it wasn't scarcastic. We'd take a break about 9:20 that lasted at least 45 minutes, then knock it off between 11:00 and 11:15 just about every day. It was a 5 day a week class, but he went out of town most Fridays. We met maybe the first 3 weeks full time, and that's it.
The class wasn't easy, but it wasn't hard and there wasn't much of it. I know very little Latin now, but I can't say that's anyone's fault but my own. All in all, college language training sucks. I've since taken a Spanish class and they are all worthless. Instead of learning to speak the language first and then getting into grammer (kinda like we all learned our native language), they try to do it all at once. Pimsleur style tapes with 5 days a week class sessions doing nothing but speaking the language would teach students faster than any other method I'm aware of.