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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
(a) IMO German has just as much unnecessary grammar as Latin
(b) For me doing Latin was an almost complete waste of time but it was an Oxbridge entry requirement back then
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a) I agree to a degree, but I dropped Latin after a month and kept going with German, so there must be something to it
b) Ah, Oxbridge and the odd things which go with it. Having been there, I can certify that very few of them know a word of Latin, although it may have been different in your day.
Warm regards,
Paul