I am a Consultant teacher. At our school we offered French, Spanish and Latin. A few of my students chose Latin and so I pushed in with them. They all struggled with the Latin as to gender for verbs, nouns and adjectives. I had studied French so I was learning along with them. I could see where there were a lot of cognates and they would be helpful, but there was a lot of confusion on the part of the students as there were also many words that appeared to be cognates, but were not close enough in meaning. It didn't help that the teacher took ill and missed many days. She died mid-year and the school could not find a Latin teacher to take over. We ended up starting a half year Spanish class. The kids and parents were not happy. The French and Latin classes were for high school credit and the Spanish wasn't. We no longer offer Latin.
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