People Should Speak More Latin

In an article for Slate on how fewer people are learning and speaking Latin, Ted Scheinman has the temerity, nay, the gall, to write this sentence:

Like its nouns, Latin continues to decline.

Oy vey.

Though I do still remember all these years later the opening line of my sixth grade Latin textbook: (pardon the endings, its been about a decade)

Ecce! In pictura est puella, nomine Claudia. Claudia sendantus sub arbore.