Introduction to the Latin Language

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Do you love languages like Italian, Spanish, French, and others? Where did they all come from? They are all derived from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire! This language had a profound influence on the development of many other languages, including English, so if you want to enhance your understanding of grammar, vocabulary, or just want to know what it was like to live in Ancient Rome, learning Latin is for you!
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@corlunae 11 ай бұрын

As someone who was taught latin in school for 7 years and then for another 5 years at university (with a degree) im so excited for this series. Im already amazed by your flawless pronounciation of the example phrases, it happens so often that spoken latin is accentuated by the speakers native language. And all those excellent points you made for studying this language. Let me add one more: Latin had such a big part in forming the western history, it deserves to be preserved!

@samsammich8465 10 ай бұрын

@@edwardj3070 no its still being taught. I mean it was like 13 years ago and my highschool latin teacher has since retired, but it was a pretty popular course and I just couldnt imagine them getting rid of it completely.

@samsammich8465 10 ай бұрын

@@edwardj3070 ah I thought you meant just public schools in general. I mean they got rid of all ap science courses at my school shortly after I left, who knows what else they'd deem unnecessary.

@PaulaBean 11 ай бұрын

I took two years of Latin (and ancient Greek) in college. It is indeed amazing how much of these words survive in current languages. Words like 'paraphrase' and 'perimeter' can completely be understood by knowing ancient Greek.

@Billy_Boozer 9 ай бұрын

I know what these words mean already

@Awakeningspirit20 5 ай бұрын

I've become a bit of a Catholicism and Orthodoxy weeb, and much like actual weebs who learn Japanese from anime, I've found myself able to decipher the Greek characters and pronounce Greek, even know some words; then from my knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese, and even from English (and all the Romance languages I've tried), Latin Mass lets me kind of figure out Latin. I was kind of dumbfounded in Mass upon recognizing, finally, what "nobis" must mean - it is nosotros, nos, nous, nois, or as we know it, "we".

@yashsingh6508 11 ай бұрын

Can't wait for this. Thank you for your hard work. Really looking forward to the whole series!

@mjjoe76 11 ай бұрын

My experience in understanding grammar is similar, yet very different. I took German, and it helped me understand what they were trying to teach me in English classes. It also helped me understand and appreciate the aspects of Old English that remain in the language.

@DanielMWJ 11 ай бұрын

It also helped me learn to appreciate some things that English changed: like not conjugating to gender! 😂

@jesusistheonlyway1035 11 ай бұрын

just watching a priest praying in Latin, then suddenly a notification appeared about this video

@John-pz4zj 11 ай бұрын

That is not a coincidence, my brother, seriously, lol.

@zanpsimer7685 11 ай бұрын

Funny how that works 😂

@Hallgrenoid 11 ай бұрын

Irrefutable proof that god exists /s

@andanssas 11 ай бұрын

Or, an easier proof: AI speech recognition and devices background sound recording are working well (as intended).

@jjthor_21 11 ай бұрын

@@Hallgrenoid not proof at all 💀

@ronen44444447 11 ай бұрын

Yes! Thank you Dave, I'm really excited for this series! I was meaning to study some Latin and improve my Italian

@thomasbellerive7382 11 ай бұрын

NO WAAAAY 😱 This is a series I'll watch through the whole thing, please be exhaustive! Will you teach us grammar etc. too?

@ProfessorDaveExplains 11 ай бұрын

yep

@thomasbellerive7382 11 ай бұрын

@@ProfessorDaveExplains I'm jumping with joy 😄

@Zyragonn 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for that. I wanted to learn latin for the heck of it, but now I want for the way how logical it sounds. Also, Latin should be broughtly taught since even in case of Polish, lots of modern polish words are "polished" latin words from 17th century. We all speak Latin without knowing it.

@IanLong03 9 ай бұрын

I haven’t watched Professor Dave in a while but I just found your Latin playlist. As a linguistics nerd whose favorite language is Latin, I am ecstatic.

@Over-Boy42 11 ай бұрын

I am so excited! Learning Latin will make my philosophical studies much more rewarding!

@Jrockilla137 11 ай бұрын

I look forward to this series! Going into nursing, the ability to understand even a little Latin is a massive boost.

@caribbeanman3379 11 ай бұрын

I started learning Latin once. But whenever I would practice, everyone around me started to freak out, acting like they saw a ghost, or like they thought I was demon-possessed or something. So I stopped.

@Christinamariae 4 ай бұрын

Honestly, that sounds like another good reason to learn 😂

@YDV669 2 ай бұрын

Stop reciting Latin in front of ancient books, and the problem would go away.

@robertberatheon4213 Ай бұрын

I know this is nit picky but in the US most people don’t know that the staff of Hermes (caduceus) is not a medical symbol

@gailsphere 8 ай бұрын

I wanna learn Latin! I am so excited to see that Professor Dave is teaching it 😍

@Art-is-craft 4 ай бұрын

Get the book Gwynne's Latin as well. It will give a good foundation to build upon.

@gailsphere 4 ай бұрын

@@Art-is-craftthank you!

@mikotagayuna8494 11 ай бұрын

Iyay amyay ayay igpay andyay iyay enjoyedyay isthay ideovay!

@uncleanunicorn4571 11 ай бұрын

Definitely opens up your appreciation for much scientific terminology.

@BruceBanner-eg8vs 3 ай бұрын

Got through 4 years of Latin at grammar school and have an "O" Level in it. Wasn't a fan of it at the time but have been into all things Roman Empire for many years and appreciate that it is the language of the Empire, and it has caused me to have greater interest in it.

@zrzx999 11 ай бұрын

this guy literally knows everything

@Slackwise Ай бұрын

I don't have all the evidence yet, but I have a suspicion that Professor Dave is an Immortal who has lived on Earth for well over 2000 years.

@jamiegallier2106 11 ай бұрын

Well, this was fun! Thanks Dave.

@SilverIV 4 ай бұрын

Oh my god I’ve just gotten into a language-learning phase and am watching everything in Japanese that I can and I was thinking about practicing Latin as well and have watched your stuff on and off for like 2 years and now I find THIS on your channel?!?!?? THANK YOU

@BFDT-4 6 ай бұрын

Indeed, in my renewal of Latin, this little playlist will be important. Thanks, Dave! Ecce in renovatione latinae hae lectiones magni momenti erunt. Gratias tibi, Dave.

@bpa5721 10 ай бұрын

Nice. I was planning to learn Latin. This comes at the right time.

@AhrixNova-b8x 10 ай бұрын

I don't know any Latin, but I don't think it can be 100% systematically precise like math. If it was, that would mean If could just learn every word and every grammar rule, I would sound 100% fluent and understandable, which is definitely not the case for other languages.

@onbireleven 10 ай бұрын

I appreciate your work. I am so exited for this new series. I was looking for a online latin course. Thanks for this content.❤

@Alexis-ey4kp 11 ай бұрын

This is awesome! 👏

@lksr2095 7 ай бұрын

Dave, you are the best, please, now make a series on other languages, like French or german, please 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@5podsolnuhov 3 күн бұрын

3:48 in spoken Classical Latin you don’t make pauses between words, you pronounce all in one.

@Jin420 11 ай бұрын

Wait.. intro to Latin!?!? I'm down! 💯

@hectorserna7950 8 ай бұрын

THANK YOU for the correct pronunciation of V! ❤

@thois_ 11 ай бұрын

I’m now in my 5th year of taking Latin and Greek and I’d say I’m very experienced by now, but still, translating original Latin texts is very difficult. Saying that you will be able to read philosophy and other Latin texts like a book is not realistic at all, and only people who have studied it for years can read Latin ‘fluently’. I still love Latin, but I think it is hard to properly teach it on youtube, since years are needed to build up the experience. Not to say I don’t like your idea, because teaching everyone the basics of the Latin grammar is such a good initiative! Looking forward to see how these lessons will turn out!

@HardToBeAPoopGod 11 ай бұрын

i've always had a vivid interest in both medicine and etymology, so Latin always felt like a warm friend to me ♥

@thuse5532 11 ай бұрын

i just took latin courses for 2 semesters in university! it was all in japanese, so i didn't quite get much, but this should be a nice way to recap if i do say so myself!

@rogeriopenna9014 10 ай бұрын

Some of those sayings are so similar to Portuguese. Others, you must do quite a stretch in linguists Like alea iacta rest Translated as a sorte lançada está Alea existe in words like aleatório... And iacta (throw) exists as jato (jet) which until 50 years ago still had a silent c... Jacto. But the verb jatear nowadays means to throw very fast and continuously a substance (water, air, sand) Aleatoriedade jateada está

@Gutv-dj7bd 10 ай бұрын

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@Kennephone Ай бұрын

I took a latin class in 10th grade, I hated it but I liked the teacher which made it much better, I'm way more into the history of languages than I am actually learning them.

@waelfadlallah8939 11 ай бұрын

Great topic to talk about 🙏

@ron.74 11 ай бұрын

Is learning Latin as the first romance language really a good idea? For granted, if you are interested in studying ancient history or if you are interested in becoming a catholic priest. But wouldn't it otherwise be better to spend the time learning one of the current romance languages instead? Learning one also gives you a head start if you wish to add another one. All the examples in Latin from the video can be understood perfectly if you have Italian or Spanish. What about teaching Interlingua? Anyway, I will stay tuned for the Latin course. You, teaching Italian 🇮🇹 before was great and helpful for me.

@henryelicker2403 11 ай бұрын

Hi Professor Dave happy Friday

@abulebissleepy 11 ай бұрын

Letss goo , i was always fond of learning latin!!

@traceythompson3162 11 ай бұрын

I'm British and when I was at high school, many moons ago we were taught latin

@adoq 11 ай бұрын

wow you actually managed to persuade me to learn latin. i had no intention of doing it before clicking

@VampireSquirrel 11 ай бұрын

There are over 100k untranslated surviving books in latin from 600-1850 about all kinds of subjects including history

@BoneySkylord 10 ай бұрын

Having a good grounding in Latin plus some Ancient Greek helped hugely when learning anatomy. My favourite is “substantia gelatinosa” in the spinal cord. It literally means “jellyish stuff”. 😄

@rheiagreenland4714 10 ай бұрын

Utah you can really tell how ingrained Latin and Greek cultural supremacy is STILL ingrained in our culture. "Substantia Gelatinosa" sounds so formal, translate it into Germanic words and you get "jelly stuff" which, you probably wouldn't go back to a doctor who used that to refer to it would you? Deconstructing Latin or Greek terms into literal translations can be quite a culture shock

@patrickfox-roberts7528 2 ай бұрын

A lot of doctors' 'diagnoses' turn out to be Latin descriptions of the symptoms with some Greek incursions. eg (exempli gratia) 'Laryngitis':-' inflamed larynx' , 'gingivitis';- 'inflamed gums'

@Louisianish 11 ай бұрын

I love it, but I laughed out loud when you said learning Latin first is a "shortcut" to learning Romance languages. 😂

@JamesHarkalis 10 ай бұрын

i like these languages, i wonder if professor Dave is planting on doing languages like English, Spanish, or other languages. though im sure hes really busy with making the political sciences course or something

@dragonmaster613 8 ай бұрын

As an aficionado of the Demonic and a delver of Kabbalah. This is very helpful.

@caramell33 3 ай бұрын

He knows a lot about the science stuff professor Dave explaines hhhhhhhhhuuuuuuu

@mcalkis5771 11 ай бұрын

Really excited to learn Latin from an Italian-American who uses the restored classical pronounciation. Italians have such a fitting way of pronouncing it. How in depth do you plan on going with this? As much as your series on Italian? What happened to that by the way?

@anattasunnata3498 11 ай бұрын

You are amazing, Dave. A true polimath. Thabks for sharing your knowledge with us, usi

@AlbertaGeek 11 ай бұрын

*polymath ...And that's a good ironic use of a _Greek_ term. :)

@Alexis-ey4kp 11 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@TheTypeWriters-kq4pb 14 күн бұрын

These are all good reasons to study Latin! Yay ancient Greek and Roman philosophy!

@qd___741 11 ай бұрын

Hyped.

@foodbadgersnew 11 ай бұрын

please contiue this series sir

@sci1905 11 ай бұрын

Professor Dave is the G.O.A.T.

@EnigmaticRecluse17 11 ай бұрын

Hi, will you start teaching Latin , just like Italian?

@321ssteeeeeve 10 ай бұрын

Out of all the languages Hebrew has got to be one of the easiest to learn, easier than Latin for sure

@samsammich8465 10 ай бұрын

If Dave can go from science to language on a dime and still come up with an effective lesson structure then he should probably be given an honorary phd in education. And latin definitely helps at the drs office too. Like when they give you some bs diagnosis "oh those chest pains that left you crumpled on the floor and that you paid $3k for an ultrasound to diagnose? Well we've diagnosed you with idiopathic chest pains..."

@betsyfriend9995 11 ай бұрын

Yay🎉 I have also wanted to learn about Latin language

@pohordebbarma4505 6 ай бұрын

Latin vowels are very straightforward phonetically and fixed, unlike English where smtimes E sounds like I, A, Uh I like A, EE A as AE, AA, Eh so and so That's why Latin is easy to pronounce

@kiketb7747 11 ай бұрын

Please, moar. I studied latin in high school and forgot almost all of it. I want to remember it.

@gabor6259 11 ай бұрын

When reading ancient texts, there will always be something lost to translation/interpretation. How do you know the writer meant exactly what you think they meant? Is your red the same as their red?

@YoungJackRack 11 ай бұрын

Excited to learn Latin

@whendricso 7 ай бұрын

"So, anfter AILL THAT, if you're not interested in Latin, best of luck in your future endeavors." 🤣🤣🤣

@Naleksuh 11 ай бұрын

Hey! You said in another comment that you are responding to the "how science became unscientific" video, but haven't uploaded a response video yet. Is it still being made?

@andrewjones6693 11 ай бұрын

I've been trying to learn German on my own for years. I wonder if this will help with that? Looking forward to more Latin lessons! 🎓

@korbendallas5318 11 ай бұрын

It will help, a lot of German grammar is similar to Latin. I don't see the point though, it's much less effort to learn German than to learn first Latin and then German.

@andrewjones6693 11 ай бұрын

@@korbendallas5318 Thanks for the advice!

@mr.robot619 3 ай бұрын

Why are 14 videos hidden in the latin playlist?

@ProfessorDaveExplains 3 ай бұрын

They are released on a schedule

@Joe-un1tl 11 ай бұрын

Professor Dave at this point is a modern day Da Vinci. It’s inspiring how much he actually knows and teaches. A true gift to the world!

@URUT4U 11 ай бұрын

Hi Dave, would you recommend any text material to complement your latin course?

@greyfade 11 ай бұрын

Please tell me you're working with @Polymathy on this

@waelfadlallah8939 11 ай бұрын

Nil per os or NPO, referring to the medical term of nothing by mouth. Also a whole dictionary of medical terminology, as Prof Dave mentioned, come from latin which is fascinating. Luckily, i manage to communicate in English, French, Arabic and a little bit of Latin

@sirblackrose5293 11 ай бұрын

هلا هلا، نورت

@waelfadlallah8939 11 ай бұрын

@@sirblackrose5293 thx brother 🙏

@sonamtbhutia4953 11 ай бұрын

' Opus valde pulchrum '👍

@bugsbunny852 11 ай бұрын

Are you starting a Latin series?

@korbendallas5318 11 ай бұрын

I learned latin at school and reached the highest certification available, and I think most of the arguments given in the video are BS. 1) If you want to learn romance languages, learn a romance language. You get all the benefits of getting easier access to other romance languages, plus you already know one of them. You know, one you can actually use. 2) While English was influenced by latin, the influence is pretty watered down. For example, Latin is a highly inflected language while English is very much not. Vocabulary can be learned much easier by just learning its use in the English language (which might differ from ancient use). I'm sure there are several books and websites on the topic. 3) Latin has a huge influence on technical terms, esp. in medicine, but these are a) just a list of words and b) very uncommon in Latin. I'm pretty sure the only medical terms I ever came across were the major body parts and major organs (arm, head, heart....). Become fluent in Latin and you have 99% of the work still ahead of you. 4) Latin allows you to read Latin books in the original, of which there are probably 50 worthwhile even for hardcore enthusiasts. (Side note: _By far_ the best ancient book I know is written in Greek: Thukydides' History of the Peloponnesian War) On the other hand, France is the second-largest exporter of movies in the world, and there are probably some tens of thousands of books first published in French annually. Learn French (the movies alone are worth it), Spanish or Portoguese, or one of the other romance languages.

@ami_sunshine_dog 11 ай бұрын

Idk if a linguist helped you with this, but some of the claims here about Latin having "better organized grammar" is not scientific. All languages have perfectly organized grammar, and no one language is "better" than another at anything. Calling Latin "more precise" or anything like that comes across just as badly as saying that energy can be good or bad.

@galileog8945 11 ай бұрын

Really? There are languages without the determinative article. Don't you think they are missing something crucial? Do you think a language which created the double genitive has a "perfectly organized grammar"?

@rheiagreenland4714 10 ай бұрын

@@galileog8945pretty sure they meant "perfect" in the sense of "perfectly well and good" and not "flawless." Something anyone with a passing degree of interest and familiarity with the field off linguistics would obviously agree with, unlike the notion that Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Tatar, Mongolian, or countless other languages spoken perfectly well and good by billions of people are fundamentally missing something crucial because they're lacking definite articles. And by your own standards, what you have just written should somehow be gibberish because it's the same language in which the construction "a friend of his is a friend of mine" is grammatically possible. You fundamentally misunderstand linguistics.

@galileog8945 10 ай бұрын

@@rheiagreenland4714 I am not a linguist for sure. I just studied a few modern and ancient languages and know indeed that ancient Greek and, to a lesser extent, Latin have well organized grammars which, when you have studied them, enhance comprehension and avoid ambiguities. Most modern languages are less precise and must replace endings, declensions and conjugations with prepositions and context. There is no question that when a grammar is more precise it becomes more complex. A language with simple grammar like English is unavoidably more ambiguous and less interesting. I did not say English is gibberish because of the double genitive: English is a modern language with a limited grammar and a few freaky rules, but of course it is still usable and conveys meaningful messages in most cases. Yet, ambiguities abound: take the sign "Large tire sale"; or the headlines "Pentagon Plans Swell Deficit"; "Union Demands Increased Unemployment". There are thousands of these cases due an overly simplified grammar. German does not have these problems, because it retains many Latin features. Studying Latin brings us back to a richer, more organized language. Unfortunately, learning Latin is 100 times more difficult than learning English, and therefore this course will only scratch the surface. I do not understand why you say that I misunderstand linguistics. It is a blank, unjustified claim. Tell me how. Tell me how languages are all rich to the same extent.

@rheiagreenland4714 10 ай бұрын

@@galileog8945 I do not mean that all languages are "equally rich," i mean that is a concept which does not even apply to it. All I mean is that all languages are valid and work perfectly well for the people that speak them. English does not have an 'overly simplified' grammar, that is not something you could really say that a language has. It's not like other languages don't have ambiguities. Grammar is also dependent on context. Such as for 'large tire sale.' And with that 'union demands increased unemployment' is not everyday English, it's newspaper language, which kind of intentionally has ambiguities due to both limited space and clickbaiting. Normally you would say "The union's demands have caused increased unemployment." Or "The union demanded increased unemployment." English has the tools to clear those ambiguities. Other languages might put different cases on their verbs and stuff to indicate all the relations between the words in the sentence. It's not a better or worse or simpler or more complex grammar, it's just different and it changes over time to fit the needs of those speaking it. I think the problem with those headlines isn't with English being "too simple," but rather the necessary reduction of the headline to fit a single catchy line. To be frank, the notion that English is too simple and ambiguous is objectively false, it is capable of just as much precise grammatical construction as any other language upon anything resembling a closer inspection, as is any other human language. You seem to be conflating analytic vs. synthetic languages with grammatical simplicity vs. complexity, which is a fundamentally false misunderstanding of it.

@galileog8945 10 ай бұрын

@@rheiagreenland4714 OK then. You have no idea about linguistics or grammar or languages and you are just writing to fill some space. Thanks for clarifying that.

@adamlord3550 11 ай бұрын

DAVE if you can do a series on Latin Spanish, I will send you my dog in the mail.

@sciencenerd7639 11 ай бұрын

cool!

@timbushell8640 11 ай бұрын

And botanical latin, my gateway drug to Cicero. : ))))))

@FirdawsAbdulRazak 11 ай бұрын

Will there be a Latin lesson here?

@ThomasJackPotter 11 ай бұрын

Okay so teach us

@manansampat6389 11 ай бұрын

Precise as it may be, is it phonetic though?

@NcxX-c8f 11 ай бұрын

Stoked to see a language video: One minor caveat: this was a missed opportunity to bring up the difference between a “dead” language (like Latin) and an “extinct” language (like Hittite)

@YDV669 2 ай бұрын

As we learned in Stargate: SG1, everything sounds better in Latin.

@ahhlewis 2 ай бұрын

fellow stargate enjoyer spotted

@MajorPikapika 2 күн бұрын

This gon be the biggest flex ever

@dakrontu 10 ай бұрын

If I want to use a power tool such as an electric drill, I do not need an engineering degree that will enable me to understand in great detail how such a tool is constructed and how it works. Similarly if I want to understand word derivations I do not need to have a full-blown understanding of Latin. I suffered 3 years of Latin at school, and was still unable to form a sentence in Latin, because it is a bizarre example of pointless heavyweight bureaucratic complexity, and I have no problem in understanding why it died out. It uses a stupid linguistic practice of piling layers of complexity into word-endings, for which it provides a large number of regular schemas (conjugations, declensions, etc) plus a bunch of essential irregular ones. Modern languages in Europe seem to me far less prone to that, and are therefore easier to learn, because we learn them as speakers whose native languages mostly do not use this practice. Latin remains in use in naming species, but that is a rather simplified matter compared to being able to hold a conversation in Latin. One has to wonder how the average Roman spoke such a heavily overburdening language, and I suspect the truth is that the formal Latin we see on Roman monuments was that of an educated clerical class. Rather than teaching Latin specifically, what should be taught is an overall linguistic overview therefore also taking into account the other linguistic influences that together led to the mainstream European languages of today. I was never taught ANY of that at school, I had to guess, or read about it myself, and yet it adds whole dimensions to a subject that, restricted to Latin, falls flat and empty and boring beyond belief.

@kyokoyumi 10 ай бұрын

"Learning Latin is a shortcut to the romance languages" Okay so hear me out That's like saying learning Chinese (specifically Beijing language known as pǔtōnghuà or mandarin) first is a shortcut to learning Mongolian, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, etc. Yeah sure it'll be easier to learn the rest *maybe* but honestly? You might just be better off learning the one language you wanna learn xD Chinese is hard. Really hard. Especially compared to Japanese and *especially* compared to Korean considering they actually standardised their language to make it easier for people to be literate >> If you want to learn all the romance languages, go for Latin first. If you wanna learn one or two, learn those. Don't try to learn the origin language just to learn one or two others xD it'd take way too much time lmao I, for one, have been learning Latin because I like Latin.

@rheiagreenland4714 10 ай бұрын

Those languages have absolutely nothing to do with Chinese. Japanese is not descended from a dialect of Chinese. Romance languages on the other hand are direct descendants of Vulgar Latin. Your analogy makes more sense for learning Latin as an avenue to English due to the enormous amount of loan words

@martinnyberg71 11 ай бұрын

4:05 That was wonderful! Id est, hearing an american say the motto of the country properly.😂😊

@milmex317th 11 ай бұрын

Latin is a dead language, As dead as dead can be, It killed the Romans, now Professor Dave is killing me.

@jenm1 6 ай бұрын

I'm doing this for biology 🙈

@John-pz4zj 11 ай бұрын

HELLO.

@donchristie420 11 ай бұрын

HEY

@John-pz4zj 11 ай бұрын

@@donchristie420 HOW ARE YOU?

@recommendedforyou2936 6 ай бұрын

So english is really a combination of Latin French and German

@veero25 11 ай бұрын

in Italy we study latin, and let me tell you, we are not geniuses for it, like at all. We don't write any better just because we studied latin. With all the time and effort it takes try to learn Latin, you can actually learn of those romance languages that people actually speak today. It's way easier just studying the basic grammar, learn by heart those common phrases and abbreviations, and other cases it's used today. Sure, on many tasks studying latin will make your life easier as you study literature, grammar, etc. But it's not worth the effort in my opinion. It's not a shorcut, it's a paved super expansive and long highway that takes you from point A to point B in years of study that give you very little compared to the investment. It's flexing your skills, while people get from A to B in admiteddly a less classy way, but way faster and more practical.

@PaulaBean 11 ай бұрын

C'mon, it's not _that_ hard!

@veero25 11 ай бұрын

@@PaulaBean it totally is. 5 pointless years of high school I studied it, and it was 100% for nothing. at some point, the only way to pass an exam was to MEMORIZE, word by word, a whole text. Translate the whole text today, because tomorrow you'll have to translate it again, and if you didn't do it the day before, you couldn't do it in one hour...no matter how well you know the grammar, the declinations and conjugations. at some point, you realize that if you search well in a good dicitionary, 90% of the phrases are already translated there, as you read "this word _usually_ means this, but Cicero uses it like this in this sentence, while Caesar like this, Tito like this, Nepote like this..." and so on. Pointless. Learn spanish, or italian, or french... learn those scientific term and phrases, and unless you really, really love mediterranean literature, you're good to go.

@PaulaBean 11 ай бұрын

@@veero25 Nah, the same word meant the same, whoever wrote it.

@veero25 11 ай бұрын

@@PaulaBean on latinium look up these words descendo, induco, iubeo, obnoxius (in my dictionary it takes half of the page), and maybe you see what I mean. and that dictionary is very narrow.

@PaulaBean 11 ай бұрын

@@veero25 Those are indeed some overloaded words!

@paolomartini150 11 ай бұрын

Where is the rest?

@Nivola1953 11 ай бұрын

Some of your pronunciation of Latin are a bit off. The “ti” in Latin is pronounced as a sharp z like in zip (ab initio pronounced ab inizio). In fact all Italian words have mutated this spelling to a z. The curious thing is that English has maintained that Latin spelling, most (not all) English words that ends with “tion” can be translated to Italian by replacing it with “zione”, e.g. sta-tion = sta-zione, addi-tion = addi-zione, amputa-tion = amputa-zione

@galileog8945 11 ай бұрын

Scholars agree this is very likely how classical Latin was pronounced in imperial Rome. Latin was a widely spoken language till the 18th century, and the pronunciation changed over the centuries. What you learned (probably in school) is not the correct pronunciation.