Actually, I was kind of a stink pot in high school. I started out at a Catholic high school and we had to take two foreign languages. The standard was Latin and French or German or Spanish. Well, I didn't want to take Latin, probably because I was 14 and thought I knew everything, so wound up taking French and Spanish at the same time. I did at least 3 years of French at a public high school, then majored in Spanish and Political Science.

Soooo, I eventually wised up a bit and missed the Latin, so here I am. There's no doubt that Spanish is closer to Latin; anyway, it has been fun to see where all these languages came from.