Should I learn Ancient Greek or Latin?

Greek without seconds thoughts. Why:

- Latin is a base language as someone said. But Greek is a base language 10 times more than Latin (Latin sounds a small branch if you compare it with the whole Greek tree... Greek is the mother language of almost all European languages... yes, including english even thought Americans don't know that)

- Is older (waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy older) than Latin, meaning more useful

- By knowing Greek you understand Latin better since part of Latin language is Greek (small one though)

- Ancient Greek are much more valuable than modern Latin and maybe ancient Latin (it depends)

- At least a 70% of english language is Greek so it's much more easier to know Greek. You just have to know the greek grammar and syntax.

My opinion? Learn Greek.

Of course no one can stop you by learning both. :)

Well personally i like Ancient Greek since Greek has an interesting background with all the wars and the mythology. Latin isnt as interesting to me but its more useful since no one knows Ancient Greek that much. I say go for Latin.

It relies upon on the place you reside and how annoying you opt to paintings at gaining information of a sparkling language. For an English speaker, French and Spanish are the least confusing to study, because of the fact they use the English/Latin alphabet and there are different similarities. Latin is extra durable (extra diverse from english), much less useful, yet thrilling. the comparable with historical greek, plus they use a various alphabet. Mandarin is a speedy growing to be, complication-loose and useful language to study, yet is via some distance the toughest. while you're in the U. S., circulate with Spanish or Mandarin.

I'd go with Latin. A base in many languages. Though it would seem there are fewer people who know Greek. But what's stopping you from learning the other later, regardless of your choice now.

you should learn latin because it is an older language and many people don't speak it today so yeah latin