Remembering your Latin

[OakLeaf]

The only Latin sentence I remember (outside of Veni, vidi, vici) is [said in a very sultry voice]:

Ave, nauta! Esne in urbe novus?

Latin wasn't even taught at my high school, but I had a semester by correspondence and another Winter Term in college. At my high school, Greek was mandatory in the Middle School, but I didn't get there until my junior year, so no Greek. (Tried a semester self-study, it was just too much, and I don't think the schedule would've worked out for me to take it with the sixth-graders.)

I remember the Greek alphabet (mostly because I set it to the tune of the English alphabet song). Dabbled in a number of modern and ancient European languages, most in depth with Anglo-Saxon (which I barely remember, either). I've forgotten much of the Cyrillic alphabet, which I learned only when our symphony chorus performed "Aleksandr Nevsky," but I can still piece out enough of it to at least identify cognates of familiar words [does the split infinitive make you grit your teeth? ha-ha]. Just discovered the Anglo-Saxon Wikipedia pages... what a hoot!

Yes, I love words.