Scanned until I stumbled upon this unsubstantiated tid-bit
For example the theory that learning Latin helps learn English turns out to be pretty much a myth.
I can only imagine that study was conducted by people who never learned even a little Latin, or were able to completely suppress their own experience for the sake of science.
EDIT: That is to say from my own experience, and pretty much all experiences I have discussed with others or read about, learning any other language really improves your technical grasp of your native language. Latin has its own peculiarities which make it a gateway to technical natural language understanding.
It was certainly my experience that learning Latin in high school helped me learn English better for all of the above reasons, plus so much of English is from French, a Romance language. Heck, just knowing a word is probably Anglo-Saxon in derivation because it's not Latinate has been useful.
Scanned until I stumbled upon this unsubstantiated tid-bit
For example the theory that learning Latin helps learn English turns out to be pretty much a myth.
I can only imagine that study was conducted by people who never learned even a little Latin, or were able to completely suppress their own experience for the sake of science.
EDIT: That is to say from my own experience, and pretty much all experiences I have discussed with others or read about, learning any other language really improves your technical grasp of your native language. Latin has its own peculiarities which make it a gateway to technical natural language understanding.