Penny Komes

December 19, 2008 | 1:08 p.m. CST

Penny Komes is in her first year of Latin and said she has already seen the benefits. The sophomore at Rock Bridge High School said Latin has improved her English.

“It’s really fun and I find it really helpful for English as a whole through learning the Latin sentence forms and derivatives," she said. "It’s also interesting to know because everyone thinks it’s a dead language, but it makes me feel important to learn such an old language.”