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4 years of Latin. I just thought it was because I'm so smart. But really so many words in English are Latin derived so one discipline aided the other. And there is the bonus of reading Ceaser's Galic jounral, Cicero and for fun Martial's epigrams. Our teacher told us if we wanted to learn "barn yard" Latin we could read Martial

Matial's take on the art of medicine in his day seems amazingly appropriate for today. ( Book V:IX)
Languebam: sed tu comitatus protinus ad me
Venisti centum, Symmache, discipulis.
Centum me tetigere manus aquilone gelatae:
Non habui febrem, Symmache, nunc habeo.
https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Epigrammaton_liber_V#IX

"I felt a little ill and called Dr. Symmachus.
Well, you came, Symmachus, but you brought 100 medical students with you.
One hundred ice-cold hands poked and jabbed me.
I didn't have a fever, Symmachus, when I called you –but now I do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial