Do italian pupils learn Latin in school?

Yes, we do. I don't know if this is the same in Italy but I started studying Latin during last year of middle school (I was around 13–14) and then kept studying it during high school. read more

Yes, we do. I don’t know if this is the same in Italy but I started studying Latin during last year of middle school (I was around 13–14) and then kept studying it during high school. read more

Latin has made a remarkable comeback in state secondary school classrooms, according to figures released today. The number of non-selective state maintained secondary schools offering the subject to pupils has shot up from around 100 a decade ago to just over 600 today, according to the University of Cambridge Schools Classics Project. read more

Sometimes it does, knowing Italian is good for knowing the correlates, e.g. cigno, aquila, casa, villa, etc. It doesn’t help you much with the grammar. One of the reasons why Latin became Italian is that Latin grammar is very hard. read more

Ian Bauckham, president of the Association of School and College Leaders, which represents secondary heads, said the study of Latin provided a vital linguistic framework for learning other languages. It also provided pupils with an important cultural and historical reference point, he said. read more