Latin. A noble pursuit. Many years ago I decided on Latin as well, but gave up in an awful hurry. Once I realized just how many tenses were involved and the horrid conjugations I ran screaming. I always wanted to learn ancient Greek too, but both chases were just romantic flings of the brain.

My unsolicited advice is learn live languages. At least one, before spending all that time on a dead one. And it is dead.

Having more than one live language has improved my life tenfold over the years and I can say that without exagerating.

I took three years of Latin. It's useful from a vocabulary/etymology standpoint because many of our root words are Latin. Other than that, if you're not planning on attending any Latin Masses, you're probably not going to be speaking it.

Matter of fact, you'd probably be better off learning Chinese or Spanish if you're looking for a language that you're going to be needing someday.