11 Name: Anonymous 2025-10-01 13:32
why don't you give us some reasonsNTA but what I like about classical languages is they anchor you in a tradition. I know that's become a dirty word these days but it trains you to think a different way and appreciate a world that isn't like your own. We really don't have authoritative canons anymore.
I apologize for the misunderstanding. What I meant is that Latin is mostly memorizing things (i.e. vocab, grammar) that you just have to repeat so often until you memorized it unlike languages where you have to understand many different concepts and ideas in the language. Latin is in that regard easy, because you don't have to understand any fancy concepts, it's just reading through the declining/conjugation tables until you got it.
Also I'm in no way "so fond of the classics", all I meant is that those are something different than what other languages have to offer (which is mostly modern content). Yes, you can learn Sanskrit or Ancient Greek as well, but I still think that is something that distinguishes Latin from other languages in this thread.