Precerpt from My 20th Language: L2 Latin - Fourth Grade
Latin, L2 Latin was perhaps my second language. Perhaps French was. It would be difficult to say since I grew up in a monolingual English household in a French-English bilingual community. French was “around” but had not arisen to a level of awareness by the time Latin came into my life—and stayed there for a lifetime. Fourth Grade My father never completed high school. The oldest of six living children (a set of twins died right after birth), he had to drop out of school during the Great Depression and take a job to help support the family. He always wanted to finish, and he even signed up for a correspondence high school course. With eight children, however, he had his hands full feeding, clothing, and raising them. He was still working on that correspondence course when he died of a heart attack at the age of 58. Not having a formal education never held him back from intellectual activities. Neither did his daytime job as a shoe cutter nor his all-consuming wo...
