Precerpt from My 20th Language: L2 Latin - High School
High School I did not see Latin again until I reached high school. Well, actually, that is not quite true I recognized the Latin influences on the French around me in the community. I recognized it again when in junior high I taught myself some Spanish in order to communicate better with a penpal in Mexico. My freshman year in high school, I tool Latin I. Most of the students in the class struggled with it, especially since the teacher was a grammarian and the course taught in the grammar-translation mode. But then, how does on teach Latin if not through the traditional approach of translation texts. After all, there is not a population of Latin-speaking people today where students can be sent for immersion. Italy? Well, the language has evolved quite some distance from Latin though again one recognizes the Latin roots in the modern language. After Latin I, I took Latin II. The class was pretty small. Students were tired of the struggle, but a few of us did not find it a st...