Latin vs Greek?

Consolation
Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:47:48 +0000

I took Ancient Greek in college, with the idea of becoming an archaeologist. It was disastrous for me, partially because the assumption was that one had already had Latin–I hadn’t–and was familiar with an inflected language (I wasn’t, having studied only French). The other part of the equation was that I just wasn’t prepared to spend as much time in sheer memorization as Greek required.

I would suggest keeping on with Latin if he isn’t particularly into languages and has no particular reason to want to be able to read original texts in Greek.