Remembering your Latin

[shootingstar]

Did you have to take Latin in school? I took 3 years of it in high school. It was not a mandatory course.

lst & 2nd level courses were very popular because it was taught by a very dynamic teacher who made Latin come alive (horrible grammar here). For each lesson, we also learned of English word derivations for Latin words we just learned. At 4th level, some kids even learned to write Latin poetry -their love of it was that great.

But don't remember much Latin to construct a whole sentence/paragraph. Latin did help me..for an ongoing love of English words, their origins, meanings and wordplay.