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Originally Posted by HarryT
My experience of guiding other people in the study of foreign languages has been, in recent years, that one of the major hurdles that many people have to overcome in learning a foreign language is that they've never been "formally" taught their own language. If you're not equipped with the "vocabulary" to talk about your own language ("verb", "noun", etc), and you don't understand how it "works" from a grammatical perspective, then it's difficult to discuss any other language.
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Yes. And one of the major advantages of learning a bit of Latin is that it gives you a head-start on the grammar and vocabulary of the later romance languages.