When I was at the high school I've been hating the Latin for three years...then I started a Spanish course and the magic happened :D Still I don't love Latin as the "living" languages, but I recognize it's useful to be learned and teached in the schools...in Italy we have 5 years of Latin in the high school (unless for technical schools) it's a good "palestra mentis", exceptional for the logic, and not at all died...like the dinosaurs...they've become birds
