I did not say that Latin was a dead language. In the US, the pronunciation that gets taught most is what's called the (reconstructed) classical pronuciation. Other countries have traditionally used different pronunciations, but may be adopting the US system. Neither did I say that teaching Latin is useless or invaluable. I, personaly, don't think that anybody needs a reason to learn another language. The learning is its own reward, but, yes, learning Latin rather than say Chechnyan will be more useful to an anglophone student in that it will help enormously with English vocabulary and etymology. And as for Latin living on in the Romance languages, one can also say that Proto-Indo-European lives on in all its daughter languages some of which are dead [sic].

Ceci n'est pas un seing.