The World Languages Department offers full-credit courses in Latin, French and Spanish. The program is designed to provide students with the fundamentals necessary to speak, understand, and write a foreign language. Completion of two to three years of the same language taken at Brother Martin is required for graduation. A student must complete his second year of a foreign language with at least a C average in order to continue the study of that foreign language. Throughout the study of Latin students will read various stories in Latin about mythology, ancient history and life in Roman times. French and Spanish language acquisition occurs naturally through gesturing, role-playing and storytelling activities. Grammar and syntax are internalized indirectly.