11 Reasons You Should Learn Latin Now
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🏛️ If Latin is dead, then why are so many people jumping at the chance to speak it? In today’s video, we look at 11 compelling reasons why you should start learning Latin today!
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0:19 – Reason #1
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As a Ancient Roman general I see this as an absolute win
Respect!
No unlikely.
You can learn its grammar and writing but the problem is that nobody knows its intonation, accent etc.
Perhaps it will be reinvented for the modern age!
@Olly Richards a funny fact: oves=a lamb in Latin, owieczka=a lamb in Polish , the pronunciation is quite similar
@Joanna Sliwa Not a coincidence. Both languages are Indo-European and inherited the PIE word for sheep, as did Greek (οις, which lost to προβατον when it started sounding too much like υς, pig) and English (ewe).
@Joanna Sliwa in Spanish its oveja which is more similar to Polish.
How dead is Latin? Watch this and let me know what you think! 👉🏼 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf5Wp_zuLGo
Just bones are left, half way to fossilization.
I didn’t really understand English grammar until I studied Latin. Having it all laid out in the case and declension systems made it finally click. Latin isn’t the only language that does this, but this is yet another of its benefits.
my favorite cicero quote was about octavian, who later became emperor augustus–‘the young man must be flattered, used, and pushed aside.’
I’ve been coding since about 1979. I think one advantage of writing code over Latin is that programming languages don’t have irregular morphology.
I am a programmer and I speak Latin, though I learned Koine Greek before Latin.
I once saw a bumper sticker “VIVIT LINGUA LATINA”. I understood it immediately, but took several seconds to recognize the language. (I grew up hearing French and Spanish and can transmute words from one to the other.)
“VIVIT LINGUA LATINA” is very similar to “VIVE LENGUA LATINA” (Spanish).
If your native language is Spanish, Latin is very easy for you… the grammar in particular, a piece of cake. I know both, since Latin was mandatory when I was little.
Was this in the US? In the US, if I see the word “Latina,” I would assume that it’s referring to a woman or something from Latin America.
@Niranjan HanasogeLingua Latina – Latin language. Latin America is called that because they speak Romance languages, which are languages descended from Latin. Don’t get confused!
@Utopian Force Now I’m more confused than ever 🤪— so Québec and Louisiana are considered Latin America? Justin Trudeau, Justin Bieber, Brendan Fraser, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Al Capone, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci are Latinos? Céline Dion, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Avril Lavigne, Ariana Grande, Madonna, Marisa Tomei, and Sofia Coppola are Latinas? Naah, doesn’t sound right. 🤔
As Dr. Anthony Damico — requiescat in pace — my dearly beloved Latin professor used to say: “Latin isn’t dead. It’s only horribly wounded.”
Dum spiro spero!
@londongael Spero, ergo vivo!
As kind, jovial, extremely funny and intelligent a man as Dr. Damico was, he also set very high standards, and fully expected his students to live up to them. As a result, if students didn’t do their translations, they would pay the price of having to struggle through the line he called on them to translate, with their egos taking a bruising until they got it right. He wouldn’t give an inch. He would guide, but never do it for you. In fact, throughout the several semesters I was his student, he only translated ONE line for us, I suspect as a preemptive attempt to forestall the color that many of us would have added: “Vae! Me puto concacavi!”
Im around a B1-B2 level in French right now, but after seeing this video Ill make it my mission to learn Latin (After a couple others of course)!!!
Somehow I’ve forgotten almost everything except “caesar adsum iam forte, pompeius aderat. caesar sic in omnibus, pompeius inis at.” 😂
When I was in college, I studied Greek. I know it sounds weird, but I wanted a language that would force me to learn a new alphabet. 😊
I’m Catholic. The prayer, “Hail Holy Queen,” is nice, but hearing someone sing, “Salve, Regina,” always brings tears to my eyes. The power of Latin to stir the emotions.
I feel the same way about things like Christmas Carols (e.g. Adeste Fideles). I suspect that it’s less the Latin as much as the fact that these things were originally written in Latin, making the translation a poor window on the original meaning and poetry. Another reason to learn Latin so that one can understand and appreciate the original version.
Latin isn’t dead anymore.
As long as a language is used on a regular conversation, it became alived.
wow, you used videos from a local private school i knew people and a vid from classical conversations which is what i did for high school. so cool.
I’m not so familiar with Latin (can guess meanings via romance languages) but I speak Hungarian which also has those infinitely nested sentence structures. Administrations love to use them and my head hurts every time I read those.
I program a lot, and I am thinking of learning Latin. Very intriguing.
Beautiful video. I learnt Latin as child in school and I loved it. I come from a town that was founded by the Romans (Augustus). Roman history has always been present. I’d really like to try out one of these Latin emersion programs. 😊😊
I enjoyed learning ancient stories in Latin at high school, it made them feel more real. I’m enjoying reading in Irish in your story book, have just got to the stage where I know a little and the engaging story makes me want to guess what’s going on, it’s really expanding my knowledge. Go raibh maith agat, Olly.
After latin I’m going for Russian or Arabic slowly building my confidence up for Indian and African languages
I can confirm all the statements in this video clip. Seven years of Latin in middle school actually helped me later, when I actually came to programming unplanned, as I can say in retrospect. As a retiree, I will turn away from technology again to ancient languages like Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, and Sumerian (can one learn Sumerian at all?), unless Alois Alzheimer hits me.