Here is a major reason she is taking basic Latin. Her vocabulary has advanced to a state where she is really into dissecting it. I find lists of prefixes and suffixes and roots - she is collecting them. I get constant questions about the "country of origin". I was also interested in this at her age and began studying the pronunciations of other languages just to break this code. I had an interested spelling coach and no internet.
Although, she is very high in her language arts skills, she attacks it in a mathematical way. Math and science are her true loves. This is basically code breaking.
I have always thought that English should have courses in basic pronunciations of other languages. I am amazed by intelligent people pronouncing the "z" in Mozart as a "z" and not a "ts" as in German. Many schools have a Foreign Language Exploration around sixth grade and cover some of this. And with music and art being dropped from many curriculums, this is getting so much worse.
