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user-inactivated  ·  3560 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "And it struck me that Paul probably couldn’t get a job teaching at the seminary that taught me about Paul."

Loved it in high school, never took it in college. It's very different, from what I've heard. When I learned it we had an excess of time, so we read all the great authors and poets. In college you speed through the first two mini-textbooks in one semester and unless you take a weird amount of electives (that may or may not even exist at your school) you probably won't get to a focused reading class.

Also: I highly doubt there is anything like a conversational Latin class at any university you are likely to attend. It sometimes grates to have spent years learning a language and not really be able to speak it. I can (or used to be able to) read, write, decline, pronounce and even compose in a limited fashion, but I can't put sentences together on the fly. You just don't learn that.

Sign up for French, I always wanted to speak that one.