>>3357020Just make morphosyntactic analysis part of the curriculum in schools. We learned grammar with trees like these, I swear they work.
>latin is unique in that it's bare minimum is very high since there is no spoken latin to learnBut there is spoken latin. We know how it sounds, we can speak latin. There's no media in latin so its hard to learn from an immersion perspective, your education will always be incomplete, and you'll be gimping your language education for years just to learn what amounts to two afternoons reading wikipedia articles on grammar and clicking on the links. Grammar is really not that complicated.
> latin could literally just be a single year or part of english class.>latin is a pipedream but as it's revival continues in the west it should be considered as a tool to help japan finally achieve English literacyOk but why would you do this? Latin is a language. If you want to teach grammar just do that. Teach grammar for a year.
Latin is terrible to teach english. Any language is bad to teach any other language (if the first language would help with your intended language then your intented language will also help with the first language), but specifically latin for specifically english is worse than other options (like german) because english literally doesnt come from latin.
Latin will not help at all, in the slightest, with english, not more than just learning english would. This is like learning koine greek as a middle step towards italian.
There's simply no reason to do this, latin is useless except as a personal achievement, like esperanto or elvish.
Also and since this is a thread about teaching english to japanese people: japanese already has this. Japanese already has clearly marked objects and subjects and actors. Using latin to teach what an object is to someone that needs to identify the objects in this sentence just to read it in her mind is a completely useless process.
You literally need to know textbook grammar to speak japanese.
