Visual Latin | Why Study Latin?

[@Rainkit]

"Because your parents told you to." Actually, I'm learning latin because I want to, and I have to convince my mom that learning this isn't a waste of time.

[@katanah3195]

My dad told me to learn Latin. Mom thinks it's a waste of time. This happens all the time. They each blame me and hit me for listening to the other parent. So I have to learn Latin because Dad told me to, and I have to convince Mom that it's not a waste of time and that I'm doing it because I want to, not because of her no good husband. Honestly there's just so many situations like this every damn month that it's probably divorce time, but Mom grew up Catholic so never gonna happen.

[@akabtw]

it kinda is useless unless you want to be a scientist or a doctor

[@the7th494]

Question: why learn Latin. Answer: because it's awesome

[@the7th494]

Latin is not dead

[@the7th494]

People do speak it!

[@the7th494]

The pope

[@the7th494]

That doesn't mean its dead

[@vincentiusrex]

The 7th Plenty of people speak it more enthusiastically than the pope all around the world.

[@chickenofdoom6414]

He is seriously the best Latin teacher of all time. Period. Keep it up, Dwane!

[@501Good]

Thank you for your video! By the way, as a Russian native-speaker, who was studying the Latin language for one year at university, I can say that you can add Russian to the list of languages that Latin helps us to learn. You may ask: "What do Russian and Latin have in common?" And the answer is - grammar. In Russian we have the same 6 cases, 3 genders (but usually Latin and Russian noun hasn't got the same gender), verb conjugation (you see: "vidēs" - "видишь (vidish)"; (s)he sees: "videt" - "видит (vidit)"), perfect and imperfect verb stems and so on.

[@visuallatin]

Кирилл Милинцевич Brilliant! I did not know that about Russian. Thank you!

[@tamaradimarco878]

501 Good I thought Russian had about 7 or 8 cases

[@andreitopala8502]

Tamara Di Marco Actually, Russian has 6 cases (and some remnants of Vocative, which is practically gone), but only the first 4 are the same as in Latin (Nominative, Genitive, Dative and Accusative). There is no correspondence for Ablative, and there are 2 cases with no correspondence in Latin.

[@JohnDoe-id1es]

Kirill Milintsevich Really?!? How do you say "cyka blyat" in Latin?

[@RBLXbranefreez]

I'm not learning Latin b/c my parents told me to, or it is required for my education, but I am interested in learning as many languages as possible in order to create a unified language for my video game and book series. This is merely on of my many current side-hobbies. Unlike my peers whom are interested in "fun" such as partying, I find joy in learning and the advancement of human knowledge. (Pardon any grammatical errors in this comment, I'm currently running on 4 hours of sleep and 3 cups of tea).

[@jballs5434]

Tea doesn't keep you awake...

[@russellsprouts371]

R/iamverysmart

[@trestenspruell1214]

You sound like someone I’d want to drop kick right in your chest. What’s understood doesn’t need to be said.

[@srimansrini]

Alongside Greek, Sanskrit, Tamil - Latin is one of the finest original classic languages of the world. In this video, Dwane Thomas explains how it influenced the several European languages and how important for us to learn this language to get the better understanding of other languages. Good, informative lecture about the importance of learning Latin.

[@RasielSuarez]

Small correction: the Romans didn't force their colonies to speak Latin. Much of their success is credited to their leaving the people in their conquered territories to their language, religion and local customs.

[@pompikaushal4604]

Exactly! I agree with you!

[@akabtw]

lol small correction lol they did force them in a way one way they did that to men is when they took them away for war they put them with a bunch of soldiers that only spoke Latin so they had to learn

[@LightSaberPro]

I really like these instructional videos, I'm planning on watching and keeping up with these. Great job on teaching! You make it very simple and practical to learn this very interesting and important language.

[@lourdesgraffigna3595]

Actually, "What you do for a living?" in Spanish is: "¿A qué te dedicas?". I think he said it right, but it was misspelled in the video.

[@visuallatin]

You are right. I need to correct this... and am not sure how to. :-)

[@stewartjudyhawkins8058]

My grandson (10yrs old) and I absolutely love this guy! We were searching for a site to introduce Latin, it had to be something that he'd really want to keep going back to in order to keep his interest up. Dwane you had us in stitches with your humour - touched with humility (eg. you admitted looking at the board because you'd forgotten something). We look forward to visiting your site again for further tuition.

[@williamcleland]

I am grateful you're keeping this fantastic language alive and accessible.

[@ryangranato5010]

Im really happy that he actually goes back to this video and replys to some comments. This video is pretty old lol

[@visuallatin]

Ryan Granato You are right. Old video. But, then again... Latin is so old, it makes the video look new again! Have a great day, Ryan.

[@ryangranato5010]

Dwane Thomas Well said! I'm current;y learning Latin and my teacher always says "So the dead language is not so dead". Goes for this video too, haha. Gratia tibi!

[@lucysalmo150]

It's great to be enticed to study Latin. Hope I could learn it -- and really hope it's not too late.

[@Watcher1301]

"Em que você trabalha?" I think portuguese it's the most direct one: "In what do you work?". Trabalho (work) comes from the latin word "tripalium", same origin for the word tribulation. Work is a tribulation. LOL

[@visuallatin]

Johannes Grützmann Wow. Even better example. Thanks, Johannes!

[@roysuttie5847]

It actually comes from the same word that french travaller comes from... but certainlay not tripulatium which isn't a latin word. And tra- was originally trans-, could never be tri-... tribulatio comes from tribulo, which actually means to hurt/tremble or in pre-ecclesiastical latin to blackmail

[@Watcher1301]

Original but redundant IMHO. Why use "que" twice?

[@Watcher1301]

Portuguese (PT or BR) it's a very complicated language. A very beautiful sonority but with a hard grammar...

[@bertocher-ah1146]

You’re so easy going and set everything up in such a logical, yet fun and approachable manner. 💯

[@wishuhadmyname]

you learn latin so that you can watch that scene from Tombstone without subtitles

[@AmeerFazal]

Awesome Work Man!! The humor makes your Videos Cool!

[@yomyomcam]

This is one of the most clever ways to inspire someone to learn a new language, I'm very interested now, I'll try to keep up with your videos. Thanks for sharing this

[@B.o.n.g.o-m1g]

Nice work! I'm currently studying Latin and this is awesome motivation. Thank you :)

[@edgarmendieta91]

This teacher is awesome. Im learning Latin before this year is over. You have no idea how many times I look at a word in english and say to myself ah..that soulds like this in spanish!

[@taylor5385]

awesome, thank you! just beginning to learn!! love the video

[@marcostelias]

actually it's "¿A qué te dedicas?"

[@aviajamaria8047]

thank you for saying it!

[@kimsteed9401]

I love Latin because it is so precise. I love the root word knowledge, and the prefix/suffixes. I need to learn my past/present/future tenses, as well as singular and plural. I doubt I'll ever really speak it other than the popular phrases, but, It has been invaluable as a gardener, herbalist, and especially medical terminology really gave me leaps and bounds ahead of others, when I worked at our hospital. Thanks!!

[@MorgoLinmen]

Right now I'm in my second year of high school Latin (I'm in 10th grade) and I can firmly say that I adore the class! Partially because of my fantastic teacher, and mostly because it's actually really easy to pick up once you learn basic conjugation. It seems daunting with all of the cases and declensions, but honestly if you tackle them a step at a time, it won't be very hard and it's worth it! I also really like the way your videos explain Latin, they're fun to watch and to get a different perspective :D (Shout out to my Ecce Romani homies, raeda in fossa est)

[@JoachimderZweite]

Wonderful comment and if you are good at Latin you will be good at Mathematics as well as other languages.

[@stockloc]

JoachimderZweite How can Latin influence Mathematics?

[@JoachimderZweite]

***** I do not know?

[@knoxtrainor6695]

+JoachimderZweite math?

[@knoxtrainor6695]

Do you even know of the 4+ conjugations? The 5+ declensions? The many uses of cases? THE BILLIONS OF VOCABULARY WORDS THAT YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER FOR FINAL EXAM!?!? Latin sucks.

[@Philoglossos]

It also makes the process easier to learn any second language, even if it's completely unrelated to future languages of study. Latin is awesome, but honestly if it's your goal to learn several modern romance languages, it's better to start with one of them and move on to the others, particularly since it'll be way easier lol. That said, if Latin interests you, by all means study it! However, in terms of time spent, once can learn a language to conversational fluency in months by using language exchange websites to chat with learners of your native language in exchange for practice in theirs, and you simply can't do that with Latin.

[@carlamartell2522]

Hi. I'm mainly learning Latin because I think it's awesome. And I'm studying it on youtube because I'm kinda cheap and I'm pretty sure I can do this. By the way, it would be "¿A qué te dedicas?". Just saying.

[@andresrashti7138]

what a great vid Dwane, I decided (cut off hahah) to start learning it, thanks!

[@hermajesty52]

Dwane----I LOVE your style of teaching!!

[@davisfontanes]

I LOVE SOMEONE who's intelligent and humorous! thank you for this video :)

[@ThalesVerissimo]

Owooo, very cool teacher! Fica a dica para quem gostar.

[@hugofonseca8420]

"¿A qué te dedicas?" Rather than "hay que...". Nevertheless, it's worth to mention that you are a great motivator, so good job!

[@luandjake]

I just discovered your videos on youtube!!! Yea, I hope you have a lot of them! thank you! I have been studying Latin for 2 years, I speak Spanish, lived in Mexico and Costa Rica, so I really love languages! I took Russian and French as a kid but do not remember much but I know it helped me with the other languages!

[@patmark3059]

Pray an act of perfect contrition everyday

[@stephenlawrence2628]

Thank you, very entertaining and amusing way of explaining important things. Should motivate stidents

[@Writer102385]

It's not dead. It evolved.

[@stephaniespradling673]

Love this video. Great introduction to show my children on why Latin is important. And you are funny too, gotta have humor when you teach Latin.

[@JohnDoe-id1es]

This reenforced my view, and the view of "minimalists", which vides "stuff" as "impediments". You Are Awesome Already! Thank u...

[@saschaheims]

I'm now in my second year of latin in school, i like it, its interesting

[@Jebjess]

You're so dedicated to the language! haha... I found your video in hopes of finding inspiration while taking an intensive Latin course for my undergraduate program. Anyways, I would love to see more videos!

[@sunnydaisy24]

Dwane Thomas, I enjoyed this video. I will now go and watch the other three. I am looking forward to studying Latin this upcoming fall semester as it will certainly help me along in with my philosophy and biology majors :-)

[@pinkpriss]

I learned Latin from an Italian soccer coach. Ever since then I have wanted to make my own brand of natural cola and name it AGRICOLA.

[@laceylyon5243]

Do you know a lot of languages now?

[@pinkpriss]

Lacey Lyon No. I have no aptitude for 'foreign' languages and almost flunked Latin in HS. I have a relative who speaks some dozen or so languages fluently. I think it is some sort of a right brain left brain thing.

[@tigerkeiart7761]

you have no idea how happy I was when you mentioned transformers. I am a huge fan of transformers. also, love the video keep up the good work!

[@daveman0]

Good job! Thanks very much for sharing!

[@sandyking1952]

I'm in. I tried to learn this years ago and have wanted to for a long time. Distractions kept and interests detoured, I didn't. Hopefully I can stay focused this time. Your right; Latin is one of the roots of language thus will provide clarity for the leaves of other languages.

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

callisthenics = calisthenics Page 163 ka-lis = ke-bal = about fort ti-dak ka-lis = te-lap = permeable

[@dianebalch9047]

Love it! I use it for Catholic mass, and they use it at times as well!

[@alelizana3129]

I really like your Latin tutorial, it's very practical. But I have to correct something in Spanish we say "¿A qué te dedicas?, that means "What do you do for a living?", not "Hay que te dedicas? "Hay" means "There is / there are". Could you correct this mistake? , please. I really like this tutorial, thank you so much. Sorry if I have some spelling or grammar mistakes, I am Spanish native speaker, not English speaker....That's my suggestion.Congrats.!!!!

[@visuallatin]

Thanks, Ale! Obviously, I am not a Spanish native and I clearly made a mistake here. I will work on that. Thank you for helping me.

[@BirkanErdemCENG]

I'm a Turkish who can speak English a little , I can't express how this video opened my mind. I feel so excited to learn this language !

[@TheAstroble]

Don't forget that it is the base for legal language. And there are so many cool phrases that sound awsome like nuc pro tunc!

[@F-Man]

I completely agree with the notion that you don't know your language until you know another. I've been studying Spanish for a long time and I was amazed at how many connections I was able to make between Spanish and English especially in terms of grammar as I progressed through my first 2 or 3 years of study. Also, as a tutor at my university, I've been able to apply this knowledge to help a lot of my fellow students. Studying languages is one of the best academic decisions one can make!

[@chafaman123]

Your method of presentation definitely defeated my ADHD. I'm excited!

[@aabbcc5631]

I am really considering learning latin by my one just for the hell of it :D greetings from switzerland nice video!

[@roncachinhas]

Thanks for the magnificent presentation of something that's scary, just for the name. It's incredible how simple you've made it...

[@user-fy2ox9ep9t]

I love Latin, the official language of my Church, Latin and Christian are the matrix of Western civilization. I stated to fall in love with language when I was 22 years old.

[@YamiBarai21]

+George Arokia Savariar You're wrong the soul of the west is ancient Roman and Greek Religions and Civilizations, Christianity is just a piece of shit from the middle eastern dessert dweller, know our tru origins!!

[@mohizpornofficialalithegay3827]

+Luis De La Peña excuse me?

[@YamiBarai21]

Jayzie_That Flight_Simmer i can't spend my time educating ignorants learn about Europe's true origins on your own lazy ass!!!!

[@mohizpornofficialalithegay3827]

Luis De La Peña i aint a christian

[@YamiBarai21]

Jayzie_That Flight_Simmer Then you shouldn't feel involved in this thread!! "Excuse Me?" for what??!!

[@PaoloCristianoSCIPIO-EUTHYMOS]

Ave frater Thomas you are doing great job i feel u was a roman citizen in past life ..greeting from southern italy (megalle hellas) Vale and Valete mihi amicis

[@G_Confalonieri]

Entertain in Spanish is "entretener" which not only applies to Entertainment industry eg, but also means "to distract" or more specific "to make sb lose his/her time" in certain context. Something to meditate about.

[@greylock1959]

This guy is right on. I love this stuff and I'm 53 years old.

[@omarrdg]

¿A qué te dedicas? is the correct way for "What do you do for a living?"

[@petriximmanol5627]

I am a nitive Spanish spaker. You wrote: ?Hay qué te dedicas? You were wrong. You must say: ?A qué te dedicas? It's all. Excelent! Thank you very much!

[@esealivin]

HI, I have the DVDs for lessons 11-30 for our homeschool, but need lessons 1-10. I thought that I was purchasing them all and now have blown my budget... is there an online/free/youtube option/alternative for the first 10 lessons without having to purchase the $30 download from the compass classroom site? Thanks... we are anxious to get started.

[@visuallatin]

esealivin Hi esealivin. Contact Compass Classroom at . They will be happy to help you. Thanks!

[@richardmarriott237]

I just started studying French 2 months ago. I am 45 years old, and never took a foreign language course before. I also have interest in German, and surprisingly Latin. I might be going to Europe as a missionary in the future. I don't know why I like Latin so much, but after watching this video, I realize how important it is. I will learn Latin.

[@dlaesker]

Just to correct you Mr. Dwane Thomas. In Spanish you write: "Ha que te dedicas?," where you use "ha" instead of "hay,' which means there is.You said it right though. Just letting other people know that there was a typo on your subtitles. Regards, Denis Laesker.

[@visuallatin]

Denis Laesker Thanks, Denis! You are right. Thanks for the catch!

[@dlaesker]

You're right Adrià. Didn't catch the "h" haha. I guess I was thinking in another language when I wrote that. My apologies Mr. Dwane Thomas. Muchas gracias Adrià. La verdad que no se decir que paso alli. Que verguenza en pensar que espanol es mi primer idioma. Saludos, Denis Laesker.

[@SinistrariKHS]

It's nice to know that someone is trying to teach kids today something that is useful. Latin should still be taught in schools as a second language. I just like to hear it spoken today, correctly. Nice video. Oh, and some day you may be thankful that your youngest daughter has that purse. It may be an impediment now, but it may help you survive at some point. Always be prepared. ;-)

[@Dizasteroner]

You Are just great.. i love your attitude. I m Portuguese, and after i learned English(in school) i leave to Switerzaland talking French.. I learn a good level of french because i realize the French have a lot of words From Latin and English, i used in Portuguese and English forms. I learn from 0 % to about 75% of french in just 6 mouths living there.talking and reading day after day. After that i improve my Spanish working on turism,, GUESS WHAT i want to learn the Latim to think better. Value

[@marshallhyasi6213]

You are a really open minded person . Thx !

[@pyee01]

hey dwane you totally rock. I consider myself proficient in latin, spanish, and italian. i have some knowledge of german and french but i sometimes make mistakes in them.

[@saschaheims]

I'm studying latin in Belgium, and we also learn French and English and it's so easy because of Latin, and my German is also pretty good although i never learned it by someone, I have a German friend who can speak Dutch so i sometimes practice with him

[@jpersonen98]

3:00 well, french is considered a very beautiful, romantic and attractive language, so it kinda does make u a little more lile dat ;)

[@carlnikolov]

Youre a great speaker. Very interesting video.

[@ManuelBTC21]

In German, "Beruf" comes from "rufen" which is a verb that means "to call". "Berufung" is the long form of "Beruf", which means "calling". Asking "Was ist dein Beruf" literally means "What is your calling". What is your purpose. What have higher powers/your conscious called out for you to do. So I don't think " what is your office" is the right translation, but I would agree, that it's related to duty.

[@DaedalSphallolalia]

In Italy, in scientific and classic high school, latin is a mandatory subject for all the five years, first the grammar, then the literature with translation and text analysis.

[@dantara45]

This is right on the dot! I speak 5 languages to greater or lesser degree, mostly romance languages but my knowlrdge of english has increased. i studied greek koive period and i understand declensions a tad, but i understand them beter with latin!!!!!

[@fuchyerr]

"some people say is dead, uhhh , its frozen" yes you are totally right.

[@cralixthegameking4408]

I just have been wanting to learn it for a while

[@leahmarine9514]

This isn't a perfect translation, but it goes along the lines of: "He is angry, and asks 'Why have you come late? Begin immediately and...!" Now, the last word - 'studete' - could mean a lot of things. It's the second-person plural present active imperative of the verb studeō. Look it up and choose the exact meaning you want :)

[@linarebhi1881]

Walloon is the language spoken in the southern part of Belgium. The northern part speaks Dutch.

[@Desolatesoul1123]

We Vietnamese use not only Latin alphabet but other words that were left by the French as well. Latin is such a gorgeous language. I use it to talk to God.

[@margrietgrant7609]

militis is not the plural word for soldier, but the possesive genitive case. The plural, 3rd declension is Milites (macron on e).

[@Prominexus]

I NEED TO DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! SO SHARING ON FACEBOOK!!!!!!!!!

[@alibean101]

I'm going into my third year of Latin in a couple months. Yes it's actually extremely hard, we learn all about the culture and we have to translate A LOT and we also have to learn all the cases. It's paying off in the long run though! I heard it's very helpful in the SATs.

[@Musicienne-DAB1995]

Excellent video. Some additional reasons for learning Latin: 1)- Foundation of modern Western civilisation, 2)- Key to scientific terms, 3)- LAW: this is a big one, testament to the Roman system of organisation, which advanced their legal system. So many legal terms are Latin, 4)- Christianity: many theological ideas are well conveyed through Latin, such as the "Solas" of the Reformation (Sola Scriptura, Sola Christe, etc.). Again, this is uniquely Western. 5)- Philosophy, 6)- Some studies show increased academic performance in students who learn Latin, no doubt due to the intellectual rigour it takes to learn this subject.

[@leslievingerhoets]

Amazing work man. Are you high on life? You seem so weird, funny and confident.

[@nemoschmitz2374]

Yes, knowing Latin helps when you learn a romance language later. But you know what also helps for that? Knowing another romance language.. So, yes. Learning Latin can be useful. And I liked learning it to some degrees. But quite honestly, if your main goal is to learn romance languages later on. You might as well just learn Italian (for example) and then Spanish later will be much much easier.

[@MlleSophye]

I was starting to get crazy about this language, I am decided now. You are going to be my teacher, let's begin! ;)

[@kathysoiio]

I like your video and I'm interested in latin. I have to point out that I don't meant to diminish the message of your video at all with this comment. So to the point: you made two mistakes in this video, while talking about spanish and german. This is how you should have written those sentences: "¿A qué te dedicas?" and " was sind Sie vom Beruf?" . The last sentence literally translated would be "what is your occupation?". I think you confused Büro (office) with Beruf. PS: My mother tongue is spanish and I've been studying german for years.

[@visuallatin]

kathysoiio Ah. Thank you!

[@Desolatesoul1123]

You are welcome to come to my country and see it yourself friend. We always ready to greet you. :D

[@bunkerbunt3390]

Was sind Sie von Beruf = What is your job (training, line of work) | rufen = to call = vocare Berufung = calling, = vocation

[@gaoy.1429]

I chose latin class for no particular reason but now I do.

[@DonalLeader]

Great education for computer programmers because you are dealing with languages.

[@LG47LW579s]

Well, for me it's true. I look a lot better because I learned Latin.

[@ZaydDepaor]

No doubt Latin is a very beautiful, scientific, artistic and important language. If you try and learn arabic even latin helps as there are similar concepts and english-arabic grammar books are often full of latin grammatical terms. I loved this video and your presentation. I wish I knew Latin.

[@juancarlosperezchavez7698]

A qué te dedicas? (Check your spelling when you put text in Spanish) By the way, this is the second time Latin is frozen in history, I really doubt it will rise back in the future. Latin definitively changes your mind.... nice introductory video dude =)

[@Astynax27432]

Hi, a/ab. vs de Both can mean "from", how do I know when to use a/ab and when to use de? Gratias tibi

[@freakingitout2201]

hey ! wow you really opened my eyes ,, u know? I also love languages and well........ here I don't have the chance to studying a language such as latin ,.. I would really like to contact you .. I have whole lots of questions to ask u =) thnks

[@infinityxwolf]

Im fluent in both Spanish and English but I can't pronounce some words from both languages, I'm trying to learn Latin to help my stepmom on some Latin songs from our church that they asked her to sing. Since I'm fluent with Spanish (since its 90% Latin) will it be at least easy for me to pronounce or learn faster at it?

[@visuallatin]

infinityxwolf I teach in an inner city school. I have many students from all backgrounds. My students who speak Spanish at home learn Latin faster than any of my other students. Latin is almost easy for my Spanish speaking students.

[@lizvien]

LOL, I also have a daughter that does the same packing of bags before any outing. I can tell you that this will eventually diminish, less impediments. Girls do need bags and stuff, it may make us feel safer. :) My oldest daughter is 8 and wants to be a writer, I will begin introducing her and myself to Latin.Thanks so much for this video>

[@skipskip6652]

So great! Now I wanna learn Latin!

[@armandooliver3802]

Awesome. Loved the exapmple of impedimentum.

[@david_felipe]

8:52 It´s incorrect, the correct form is: ¿A qué te dedicas?

[@Pyroo0]

wow the thoughts on impediments is so deep