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I did Latin at school, it was all about armies marching up hills, nothing about tramp stamps!!

 

I took Latin in High School in the US... unfortunately, I can't remember much more than Agricola Agricolae - the farmer is a farmer... and I'm pretty sure I've even got that wrong!


Seriously, our teacher had no interest in teaching and most days we watched movies like top gun... or occasionally something more on topic like "a funny thing happened on the way to the forum". There was this mini-series set in rome that we watched half the time too... or some of us did... most people were bored by it so she let everyone play games like scrabble instead.

It was really a waste of a semester. We did have 10 vocab words a week (most of which I forgot- because after that week we'd never see them again), but that was about it... for half a school year... learnt nothing!

 

You must remember - amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant

Did you ever read Asterix?

 

Other than you're conjugating the verb for "to love", I think, I don't remember anything special about amo, amas, etc... should I?

Never read Asterix in Latin class... I do recall seeing the cartoon... that might have been in Latin class... I don't remember where it was that I saw it... it would make sense we watched it in Latin... most days we watched videos... and only rarely had they anything to do with Latin- but sometimes, like Asterix they would. Think I had an Asterix game on the spectrum as a kid too.

 

I did Latin as well, beyond pointless.

 

i did, and my stepdad told me i should read proper books, not ones with pictures in them.

loved the asterix collection, might get them again and let my girls read them, be a good excuse for me to catchup on them as well lol.

 

You won't be saying that if you get caught in a giant fireball that transports you to an alternative universe where the Roman empire never fell, and didn't progress technologically- and then the tripods come. (or am I mixing up two books).

 

Nothing special to amo amas amat other than it's usually the first thing you learn in Latin.

My lads loved Asterix books when they were little, got them all out the library at some point, and went round saying 'Ave' all the time with a raised hand [it means Hail or Hello] - like the native American 'How' greeting. They did Latin at secondary school as well and felt they were one step ahead having read Asterix

 

As for being pointless - not so much when you become a doctor, again one step ahead of those who didn't do it

 

I did Latin at school.
I don't think it's pointless- often enough I've been able to work out the meaning of an unfamiliar word by recognising its Latin derivation.
I suppose it's useful if you're one of those who likes playing with the meaning and usage of words.

 

Latin on its own is pointless, but to learn Latin as a precursor for learning any of the European romantic languages is very useful.

 

I learned Anglo-Saxon at school

I find it extremely ****ing useful now.

 

You should definitely get them for your girls.

It's useful in science, period table/elements and all that and like you say word derivation and working out the meaning of words you don't understand.

No learning is pointless. I didn't like Latin at all, thought it pretty irrelevant but I turned out to be wrong, O level Latin was a minimum requirement to study languages at uni, don't know if it still is.

 

Not for me it wasn't.

I passed Latin 'O' level and failed French......go figure.

 

Todæg is Frigdæg!

 

I did French A level and I can;t remember a word

 

I didn't do any A levels, O levels or GCSE's... I buggered off right before I would have had to take GCSEs...

I did take German and French in high school (German both sides of the Atlantic)... I don't remember much French besides silly phrases like Je mange le chat. Je suis un Espion Belge. And the odd word like Fromage... <lol>


German I remember a fair bit- but only because I actually used it- and knew some German before I took the classes. Still don't remember much- but can usually get the gist of most written German. (spoken hardly at all... my Oma was the only one I could understand speaking it).

 

I did as well, and Spanish and I can remember loads of it, but I can also remember poems I learned in primary school and that was a while ago

 

I remember a few poems from primary school too! Most start with the line "In days of old, when knights were bold".