But this is only one reason to study a classical language, there are many more:

• Prepare for a career in the health sciences by learning Greek and Latin-based medical vocabulary.
• How can you be a lawyer if you don’t know what habeus corpus means?
• Theologians and Biblical scholars have argued for millennia about specific points of Christian theology such as the nature of the Holy Spirit or the divinity of Christ. The answers to these questions turn on an ability to read the ancient Greek of the New Testament.
• Speak and write better in English: 60% of English words have classical roots.
• Learning the grammar of a classical language helps you better understand English grammar and thus speak and write in an educated way.