I flunked Latin in high school. I bet Miss Emmabelle Jones would be shocked that I even know what Latin is. She once told me she would give me an A if I turned in a paper, any paper.
I finally did a paper on Vulcan and she gave me an A but only for one assignment.
The Latin classes were filled by the time I registered for my Sophomore year, so what I know of Latin, I learned by word of mouth and by comparisons with other root words.