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[ghost8]

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is it a good idea to take latin in high school if the school offers it. I know that latin is not required to attend undergraduate. Does it help in pharmacy as much as it helps in medical school?

 

[ZpackSux]

I never took Latin... but I never felt it compromised anything.

 

[aboveliquidice]

is it a good idea to take latin in high school if the school offers it. I know that latin is not required to attend undergraduate. Does it help in pharmacy as much as it helps in medical school?

umm... actually - I think most people say Latin helps with Biology b/c binomial nomenclature utilizes latin naming. Im a bio major - and I am taking latin - trust me, you can do without it. Pick a foreign language you are good/ interested in. If not - choose the easiest one for you.

~above~

 

[Farmercyst]

You don't have to take latin, but any latin based language helps. I've noticed a lot of abbreviations in scrips are based on latin. ou, os, od all latin. Diseases tend to be latin based as well. I've never had latin, but having spanish gave me enough latin background so that memorizing didnt have to be brutal because the latin names made sense to me. Same thing with bone names in anatomy.

 

[patmcd]

Take it if you have the opportunity too. It will definatly help you with some things, but its not the end of the world if you cant take it.

 

[Stephie]

I took Latin for many years, about 6, and I feel that it helps me in pharmacy school. However, it definitely is not necessary, especially if there is another language you think you would enjoy more.

 

[oakland_raiders]

I took 3 years of Latin in high school and hated it. I was in a 3 person class and my teacher was a Hungarian priest that spoke Latin fluently. I took it because I was told it would help with SATs, standardized tests, etc. I never saw the value of Latin and test taking. Most of the people who say to take it for help on tests never took Latin. I think a long time ago this was true. Today there is such a large industry for test prep for whatever test you are taking, that minute advatages gained by taking Latin are negated. I gained more from studying the test guides then I ever did from studying Latin. Take a language course you will enjoy so that you will do well in it.

 

[genesis09]

Taking Spanish will be a lot more useful as a Pharmacist than latin. You really don't see many latin phrases, and what few there are, it's rather easy to pick up. With Spanish, you can see some of the relations in latin because it is a romantic language.

 

[ZpackSux]

Take Japanese! Then you can order sushi in Japanese and impress your date!

Ok, never mind...I'm seeing more and more non Japanese Sushi chef.

 

[xnm11]

I took 3 years of Latin in high school and hated it. I was in a 3 person class and my teacher was a Hungarian priest that spoke Latin fluently. I took it because I was told it would help with SATs, standardized tests, etc. I never saw the value of Latin and test taking. Most of the people who say to take it for help on tests never took Latin. I think a long time ago this was true. Today there is such a large industry for test prep for whatever test you are taking, that minute advatages gained by taking Latin are negated. I gained more from studying the test guides then I ever did from studying Latin. Take a language course you will enjoy so that you will do well in it.

i started taking latin for the help in vocabulary, but i continued on with it for 5 years because i loved the class, the teacher, and the roman culture. i agree with the other posters - you should take a language that you'll enjoy learning (latin is one of the harder ones to learn, imo). if you really want to learn a language that you can really apply, i would say to take whatever language is very prominent in the area that you live / want to work in.

on the upside, the junior classical league (for latin/greek hs students) has really fun state and national conventions where you can meet latin students from all over the country and has really great leadership opportunities on the state and national level. =)