What language to teach my kids...

Originally posted by perth

How weird. Those are the only 2 phrases I remember from my year of Latin. I don't even remember how the first translates, but I couldn't forget the "cave canem" to save my life.

"Cave canem" does have a nice ring to it, doesn't it?" My Latin text book had a picture of a piece of ancient Roman marble that had been dug up with those words inscribed on it and a picture of a dog with lots of teeth. The other phrase means 'to the stars through difficulty."

My Latin teacher was named Mrs. Galley, and we all called ourselves "Galley slaves."