It&#x27;s a really excellent demonstration of how difficult it can be to internalize certain things for people - I was eventually acceptably good at extracting meaning from Latin after years of taking it, but it never became anywhere near an internalized process of digesting the sentences, and my instructors were quite skilled in teaching and Latin.<p>One of the more interesting hypotheses suggested was that Latin classes, unlike a lot of SL classes, are not nearly as &quot;immersive&quot; as more common ones, and a lot of the language processing hardware we&#x27;ve got is better at digesting from spoken immersion. (Part of that, of course, is that outside of specialized environments, we don&#x27;t really have any &quot;native&quot; speakers; part of that is also that common &quot;spoken&quot; Latin was a lot simpler than the brick-by-brick construction of Vergil or Cicero.)