I bought my daughters a Latin edition of the children’s book “Olivia.” I was reading it to them last night, and helping the older one (she’s 5) figure out what they were saying—many Latin words found their way into English and (especially) Spanish, so it wasn’t that difficult (plus, I had quickly read through the English-language version before). My eldest (who is reading like at a second-grade level in both English and Spanish) will be reading the English-language version tonight (it will be a surprise gift), and promised to memorize it so that she can understand what the Latin words mean when she reads the Latin edition next week. My wife wants her to learn French and Italian, while I would prefer that she learn Latin and German (both of which I want to learn myself); we don’t want to push her too hard, and she already has a bunch of after-school activities, but I think that eventually she’ll learn all of those languages.
Very impressive.
My mother at first wanted to be a translator (of Russian). In high school and College she studied French, German, Russian, and Serbo-Croat.
Currently she’s very involved in a local church where most of the parishioners are Spanish speakers so she’s learning Spanish.