Latin & Greek

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Pacion

Pacion

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Apparently, one of the largest examination boards will no longer be setting exams for both Latin and Greek after 2006.

Did you study Latin and/or Greek in school? Knowing what you know now, if you could go back in time, would you study it again or want to study it, if you hadn't?

What subjects would you make madatory and which ones would you have eliminated, if you had complete control of your subject choices during your teens?

I know that certain schools taught it and other didn't so it maybe that there possibility was not there?

Needless to say, making dance a compulsory subject is not an option :wink:
 
I have never studied Greek nor Latin. I feel it would be neat to study both. Then I could read old texts in their original language! Hebrew would be another cool one to learn.
 
I started Latin at the start of 9th grade... but as soon as I realized what speaking Latin ended up doing to the Romans ( :shock: ) I got out! (...well, that and the ammount of homework the teacher gave)
 
pygmalion said:
Pacion said:
Needless to say, making dance a compulsory subject is not an option :wink:
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And why not? :roll: :lol:
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This covers both Sagitta and DancePoet. Funnily enough, I felt I had to elminate dance as an option :lol: a) because I know it is the preferred subject for many of us here and b) this IS the Dancers Anonymous forum, where we talk about everything excluding dance :roll: :lol:
 
To stop being difficult and answer the actual question, yes, I "studied" Latin in elementary school, of all places. Certain classes got a weekly lesson from a visiting Latin teacher. Hmm. I can't remember his name. It just occurs to me now how lucky we were to have been selected. He visited with maybe five or six classrooms in our school, and mine was one of them.

I don't remember a thing, though. :oops: :lol:
 
Non amo te Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare...

yup... took latin in college and always intended to take Greek, but never had the time.

It still comes in handy, especially when watching "The West Wing". :lol:

But, seriously, I think it was very helpful and wish I had it sooner.

Vivamos et amamos... (et tripudiemos!) ...not sure if I got that right ...it has been a l-o-n-g t-i-m-e... :oops:
 
I took one year of Latin. I wish I had taken a second year. I have a terrible mind for languages, but Latin really is useful, even though it's 'dead.'
 
Genesius Redux said:
Perfectly good translations available.
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:lol: GR but didn't they help discipline your mind to remember text/speeches/lines? Also, to know what a word means without having a dictionary?

For instance, constellation. I have forgot how the division/breakdown went but stella is Latin for star, therefore if you were to see that word for the first time, you would know/be able to make a good guess, that it is something to do with the stars no?

Besides, if you hadn't studied the two languagues, how would you have known/been sure that the translations were 'perfectly good' :wink: :lol:
 
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