Think about it, every time you teach your child math or science, you are teaching them Latin! The main difference between English and Latin sentence structure and is Latin does not depend on word order. Most of the vocabulary and grammar in other languages derive from Latin as well. Latin is not dead and has much to teach your children.Īll the language of the law, logic, government, theology, medical and scientific terminology, and higher vocabulary derive from Latin. Latin conjugations and declensions march in disciplined rows, just like Roman soldiers. The Latin language is the most disciplined, structured, and organized language in our world history. However, when a child begins putting English words together to form complete sentences, they do not know the words are subjects and predicates, verbs, direct objects, indirect objects, prepositional phrases, possessives, participles, gerunds, and infinitives because we don’t teach English Grammar at birth.
We speak English in the USA and have since uttered our first words. Did you know we derive approximately 60% of our English words from Latin? Latin reinforces English grammar lessons and solidifies English grammar. “A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it” –Brander Matthews LATIN TEACHES ENGLISH GRAMMARĮnglish grammar is based upon Latin grammar, so teaching and learning Latin helps our children to recognize and learn English grammar.