Originally Posted by Roger the Alien (fka noseyrosie):
Originally Posted by Xochiquetzal:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Xochiquetzal:
I am one of the experimented kids who was taught Latin 'as a foreign language', whereby teaching grammar was decidedly unfashionable. So I remember 'Caecilus est pater, Matella est mater, Cerberus est canis' etc. Read Catullus' poems which could often be pretty scandalous!
I did manage to scrape an A-level out of it though.
Well done, Xochi.
Ta Yogi. It was no mean feat I tell ya! My Latin teacher was about 104 years old and clearly unsuited for teaching teenagers. She also tried to get me through Ancient Greek. I flunked that in style!
You got an A level in Latin Very impressed.
I did O level [ancient] Greek to please my Mum, cos she thought it was posh. [I wanted to do German]. It was difficult! I scraped a "c". There was one other girl in the class - she got a "b" and she was the teacher's daughter
Thanks Rosie. The thing is, I enjoyed learning French at school and the course offered in Latin was taught in a similar way so I put myself up for the A-level. The problem was trying to get a handle on the grammar without having been taught grammar in English! Hence my close scrape. Having said that, as part of the course we were also taught Roman political and social history and some of that stays with me to this day.