LD and Learning Latin?

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Hi all,

I would like to know if anyone here has any experience learning latin (or greek, I haven’t decided). I am currently a college student with LD - dyslexia and mixed receptive expressive language disorder. I know it would definitely be a challenge for me to learn latin, but I find the language really intriguing!! Perhaps learning one of the classical languages will help remediate my LD too.

I would like advice on 1) Is it a good idea? 2) How do I start?

Thanks.

Michele

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 01/26/2003 - 1:01 PM

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Sound like a good idea ! I think latin might be easier because, it is prevelant in legal and classical books.

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 02/01/2003 - 3:38 AM

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I don’t recall where I read this, but in the last year I recall a study being done between English and other European languages and why dyslexia was so over represented in English.

The study concluded that the construction of the languaage in English was so much more complicated it just highlighted disabilities.

If I remember correctly such ld’s as dyslexia showed up least in Italian and Spanish.

I did Russian in unversity and it was heck to learn!!

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 02/01/2003 - 7:52 PM

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I started to read a book about Winston Churchill once. Some people say he had ADD. There was a story about an interaction he had with his latin tutor. He was supposed to conjugate a noun, “mesa”, or, “table.” When he got to O Mesa, which is a noun of address, he really honked off his tutor by asking why someone would talk to a table.

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