Most European languages are strongly influenced by Latin;
above all the Romance languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and Romansh.
Furthermore, in many modern languages, a large number of words can be traced back to Latin or to ancient Greek.
In English, more than 50 % of words have their roots in Latin or Greek.
In medicine, virtually the entire terminology is Latin or Greek.
In today's legal language, many expressions and idioms are Latin.
Latin or Greek also permeate the terminology of all other sciences.
Latin is therefore the basis for many modern languages as well as for scientific terminology in general.
As the basics need to be studied first, it makes sense to start Latin before any other language
