Dates me a bit, but I learned Latin as an altar boy.
Besides Mass, and seasonal, conscripted, time in the choir, I spent about half of my lunch hour each and every school day, in first and second grade, taking Latin.
I still remember some, remember tasting my first wine (we weren’t angels when not actually a part of the service,) and can remember the magic of ritual and language when they were a part of the liturgy.
Alas, when Latin left, so did I, but it was fun to be a part of something bigger than yourself, for the first time.
I took 3 years in high school, but with a really lax teacher. So what I remember could probably fit on a single side of notebook paper. But flocci non facio.
Spanish was forced upon me in grades 7 and 9. I wanted French but it wasn’t an option with two-year-ess-pee (skipping 8th grade). In high school, I stuck with Spanish since I kinda sorta knew a bit. Barely passed the NY State Regents’ Exam in Spanish, even with Evelyn’s help (the girl who sat next to me).
Later, after marrying a French speaking woman, I learned French well enough to not lose an argument with a French motorcycle cop just outside of Paris, tho that was after spending almost a month in France.
Now, I can read Spanish and French a bit and speak both slightly, albeit with good accents. I cannot understand rapid speakers of either.
I got 2/3rds of the way to a PhD in classics with only a year of Latin and a year of Greek (which I completely lost immediately) and a couple years of very rusty German. The only thing that stopped me from submitting was running out of funding. Mwhahah.
I learned Italian so I could order pizza.
I’ve sung lots of Latin. I don’t understand most of it but I know how to pronounce it.
I took three years of Latin in high school. I can conjugate a bit still, but am very rusty.
@ConAndLibrarian There’s a little blue pill to help with that.
I took one year of Latin in high school, and learned more English grammar in that class than in several English classes.
I took two years of Latin in high school, and it helped me in my medical career with terminology and abbreviations.
In my early 20s, I decided I was going to learn Latin for fun. That plan didn’t last long.
I had to take Latin in middle school.
Also, as a UI developer I completely lost it when I saw Lorem Ipsum in the description.
@arielleslie Yeah, I always love me some Cicero.
Two and a half years in HS. I retained enough to be of help in college. But, it’s all but gone now.
Dates me a bit, but I learned Latin as an altar boy.
Besides Mass, and seasonal, conscripted, time in the choir, I spent about half of my lunch hour each and every school day, in first and second grade, taking Latin.
I still remember some, remember tasting my first wine (we weren’t angels when not actually a part of the service,) and can remember the magic of ritual and language when they were a part of the liturgy.
Alas, when Latin left, so did I, but it was fun to be a part of something bigger than yourself, for the first time.
I took 3 years in high school, but with a really lax teacher. So what I remember could probably fit on a single side of notebook paper. But flocci non facio.
Spanish was forced upon me in grades 7 and 9. I wanted French but it wasn’t an option with two-year-ess-pee (skipping 8th grade). In high school, I stuck with Spanish since I kinda sorta knew a bit. Barely passed the NY State Regents’ Exam in Spanish, even with Evelyn’s help (the girl who sat next to me).
Later, after marrying a French speaking woman, I learned French well enough to not lose an argument with a French motorcycle cop just outside of Paris, tho that was after spending almost a month in France.
Now, I can read Spanish and French a bit and speak both slightly, albeit with good accents. I cannot understand rapid speakers of either.
Semper Ubi Sub Ubi.
I got 2/3rds of the way to a PhD in classics with only a year of Latin and a year of Greek (which I completely lost immediately) and a couple years of very rusty German. The only thing that stopped me from submitting was running out of funding. Mwhahah.