Should I take Spanish or Latin in high school?

Answer 1

Spanish

Answer 2

Spanish

Answer 3

Both.

Answer 4

It would depend on the general national "mood" about using Spanish or Latin - and you do not say which nation you live in, but I might guess the USA. Is Latin really needed for law studies where you are?

Your English does indeed need help if you spell it as "english"!

Answer 5

Learn Classical Latin & you can read all the modern varieties & descendants, especially Spanish & Italian.

Answer 6

No.

Answer 7

Learning Latin is seemingly pointless, but very challenging.Latin has 6 distinct noun cases,3 genders and lacks articles, making it grammatically closer to Sanskrit,Ancient Greek and Old Church Slavonic.

Pick Latin if you are interested in exploring more on roman history or literature.If not, Spanish is the way to go.

Answer 8

If you are very sure that you either want to go into law or medicine take Latin because you may not have the opportunity to study it again. It is not only beneficial to your English but a wonderful exercise in ordered thinking (just don't get too carried away trying to apply it to everything, for example split infinites are not ungrammatical in English and have a long history). Latin will be surprisingly useful and get more useful the older you get and there are not many school subjects you can say that about.

The downside is that Latin is harder to get a grasp on initially so it may affect your GPA.

If you just wanted to study a language for the sake of it Spanish is a good choice as it's immediately useful. However, there are plenty more opportunities to learn Spanish should you wish to. If you really need Spanish in a future career you'd have to learn it to a much higher standard than a normal school can teach it.

Answer 9

Spanish

Answer 10

I have learned Spanish, German, Greek and Latin, besides my native English.
Of these languages, I found Latin to be the most beneficial long-term. Most beneficial BY FAR.
Latin helped me with every other language, including English. And it will help you in Law or Science as well.