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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
definitely. i only took one year of latin, and i had the worst teacher ever (she actually made me understand *less* than before her explanations, and she confused me so much i had to redo every lesson at home by myself to understand what we were studying) but i got a lot of insight into both french *and* english thanks to that.
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I found knowing Latin a huge help in learning German, because even though German is not a "Romance" language, both German and Latin are highly inflected language, and understanding the "concept" of how inflected languages "work" is the big hurdle if you've never come across one before. Understand one, and the next one is a lot easier.