Posted by Andy on January 07, 2010 at 09:11:36 user Andy.
In Reply to: Re: Ages in GN posted by John Lambert on January 06, 2010 at 17:37:52:
On the other hand, I found Latin very useful.
As a child of the sixties, my "hip" teachers naturally deemed it old-fashioned to teach me English grammar at all, and, to some extent, spelling. It was only while doing my A-levels that I realised I had enough time to squeeze in another O-level, and I chose Latin - as I didn't have a language, and wanted to study Archaeology at University.
So I now know what nouns and verbs are, and have some idea of tenses. While I don't remember much of my Latin, I can also amaze the young of today by generally guessing what words in Romance languages mean. ;-)
Andy