Our daughter didn't want to study Latin when she was homeschooling in high school. She wanted to learn Japanese, so I got her some workbooks created by the Japanese Language Association, designed to teach young people. She did the work in one of them, but was mostly self-taught, from watching Anime in the undubbed versions, and reading Manga in Japanese. She just figured out the words and phrases from the context. When we went to Japan in the summer of 2005, to visit some friends who are living there, she was the only one of all of us who could read menus!
She's in a small Catholic college now, and is taking Latin. She said the grammar reminds her of Japanese, so she's not having any trouble with it at all. Who woulda thunk it?
She said the grammar reminds her of Japanese, so she's not having any trouble with it at all. Who woulda thunk it?Japanese grammar is much more like Spanish (and Latin, I guess) than like English. When I took Japanese in college, I took all my class notes in Spanish.