Why Teach Latin?

Latin instruction will be offered in the third through twelfth grade at Trinity Classical Academy. All students will take Latin every year in third through seventh grade. Two years of Latin in high school will be required for graduation. We believe there are at least five solid reasons for classical language study in our school.

Latin reveals a great deal about English and greatly enhances the student’s powers of expression in his native language.

• About 80% of English vocabulary comes from Latin and Greek.
  
  
• English vocabulary tests reveal that students of Latin score higher.

• A doorway is opened to great classical literature –Virgil, for example.
  
  
• The student’s appreciation for English literature grows because great English literature is filled with classical allusions. A student who understands those has a great advantage.

• This is evident in wedding rings, dollar signs, political structure, architecture, the names of constellations and planets, and so much more.

• Students of Latin are equipped in the methodology of rigorous analysis.
  
  
• Latin trains minds to encounter unfamiliar material in Science and other disciplines.

• Latin is not a "dead language", but rather a language that lives on in almost all major Western languages, including French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.

• Students gain an understanding of how inflected languages work. This will prepare them to study other languages such as German, Russian, and Greek.