I'm Spanish. I took one year of Latin in high school, and I thought of it as a puzzle solving class. It was fun in the end, but of reduce applicability. Until I took my GRE exam. The standardized difficulty gradation made for the most bizzarre experience during the verbal part of the exam. I felt that words that ought to be easy to native English speakers were sometimes completely obscure to me, whereas if, by skill or luck, I made it to the set of more difficult words, they suddenly became easier to me, as they were often direct Latin or ancient Greek borrowings into English.