<p>I have taken Latin since fifth grade and I’m going to be a freshman this year.
It is not as hard as it seems, especially because most of the Latin words have many derivatives that make them easy to remember. (i.e. facit means he/she/it makes. you can remember this by factory [a place where things are made]) I have only finished level I Latin (I’m starting level II this fall) and it was difficult, but then again I was younger and I didn’t have good studying strategies. The hardest part of Latin is the endings. There are so many of them, and it’s hard to keep track of which ones go with which tenses. My teacher made it easier to memorize the endings by making up songs and i still remember basically all of them! I’m sure the teachers at Exeter will do the same.
Also, at my school students would not speak and communicate in Latin-one of the things that was always better than taking Spanish is that we never had oral exams. But usually you learn to read and speak latin when you translate because you read the sentences out loud.
I hope this helps-if you have anymore questions just ask me.</p>
1 Like