>>I don’t know, if there’re any practical applications to learning dead languages.
Dead languages tend to be more linguistically complex, thus forcing the student to really think about language structure. Modern languages have all been considerably simplified.
Latin is the language of science and medicine. We need to teach more of it.
After two years of high school Latin, I found Spanish a snap to learn. Within the first year I was romancing an exchange student in her own language.
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