English Grammar for Students of Latin. Olivia and Hill Press, 1993. The Good News. Learning Latin is not an exercise in masochism. As with the study of any foreign language, you will become more aware of grammatical constructions in English, and this will certainly improve the quality of your own writing and your ability to analyze texts.
Many students come to enjoy grammatical analysis and treat it as a kind of game or puzzle.
The study of Latin will also greatly facilitate the study of a modern Romance language, like French, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese. It will also help you to understand many of the cultural references made in the literatures of those languages as they are written in Western Europe. Most of all, if you progress in your study of Latin, you will come to appreciate the style, expressive power, and economy of a language that was for centuries the main international language of the Western European intelligentsia. If you take a full two years of Latin, you will be introduced to short pieces of Latin literature. Beginning in the third year, all Latin courses are centered on a major literary text.