Having attended Catholic school many moons ago and taught by nuns, one year of Latin was mandatory. Did me a world of good.
My grandmother’s second husband spoke many languages, and always said that learning Latin was crucial to an accomplishment like that, and to learning grammatical concepts to start; the root of all romance languages.
It’s also lovely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySAehzKVJ-k
-JT