Latin may be an ancient language, but it’s enormously useful in today’s world. For one thing, Latin is the root language for all the Romance tongues, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian. Together, these languages are spoken by nearly a billion people – one seventh of the world’s total population! By studying Latin, you’ll give yourself a solid foundation for understanding any of these beautiful and useful languages.
Second, Latin forms the basis for many scientific and scholarly terms in English. If you have a solid grounding in Latin, you can easily work out the meaning of technical terms like interalveolar, recalcitrance, or ancillary. These words are all combinations of simple Latin terms, and are easy to understand if you know the language they come from.
Finally, anyone who loves literature can tell you than Latin poetry and philosophy is some of the finest ever written. From the sweeping epics of Virgil to the scientific beauty of Isaac Newton, much of the world’s finest literary creations have been written in Latin. Latin for the New Millennium is a Latin-learning program based on all three of these insights about the ancient Roman language.