"Is Latin harder? I'm starting it this semester."
I found the first term of Latin to be really, really easy. (When you just work on cases, and the first couple of declensions.) Then it all backfired when we learned all the different verb groups and passive voice. It was way too many endings for me. It's alot of memorization. Distinguishing between the active and passive voice in like the present, perfect, future, future perfect, pluperfect just became god awful. That's when my grade dropped 5 points...o_0.
The only problem is that in my school for all the modern languages you spend the first month reviewing the stuff you learned the previous year and forgot...but they don't do that for any of the classical languages since we're on a tight schedule, sink or swim in Latin and Ancient Greek. (We don't take it until Sophmore year, and there's only a two year requirement...and crazed facination the administration has with everyone doing well on the National Latin Exam...we supposedly have the most perfect scores in the nation.)
Updated On: 8/26/05 at 10:16 PM