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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wizzer who wrote (1004)	4/1/1998 3:43:00 AM
From: Jack Clarke	Respond to of 4711

Wisam, I agree with you that the study of Latin is a good start to learning the Romance languages. It is also a good subject to take as a first foreign language, because, not being a spoken language, one may study it in an abstract sense, as it were dissect it. You don't have to worry so much about pronunciation, idioms and conversational expressions. Also, being highly inflected, it gives a good "feel" for grammatical structure, and I have always realized that I really didn't begin to understand English grammar until I studied Latin. The same comments could be applied to Greek, which also used to be taught along with Latin as a "classical" background to literary studies. Having said that, I must admit that the "classicists" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries went a bit overboard in trying to adapt English grammar to those rigid Latin and Greek standards, making for some artificially "correct" structures which are not used in the spoken language. Jack