Learning Latin

Sometime each year I make the decision that this is it, this is finally the year that I sit down, plan a schedule, grind for a few hours a day and then, after months of work, I’ll have learned Latin. This is that time of year.

I think the first time that I got this idea was when I was going through a linguistic phase back in the summer of 2021. After all, learning Latin couldn’t hurt my chances of getting into a good university, right? Well, regardless of anyone’s opinions on dead languages, it turns out that dropping out is a bad idea and my time was probably spent better elsewhere. I think I got through the first few declensions and a couple of chapters of Familia Romana (more on that later) and not much else. Since then I’ve had a crack at it a few times but after you copy out the same declension a hundred times in a spiral ring notebook you start to see the value in other things, like sunlight. Taking all this into account, what’s different now?