Who here can speak Latin?

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I have one Korean friend who lived in Italy for 6 years and he can speak Latin pretty well. I’m trying to learn, but it’s so fucking hard!!!!

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I know I’m a genius, but no for me.

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i can speak it....but i’m not the best :/

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Oh, I can speak Latin but I can’t write in Latin. JK.

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I can only speak two languages. Bad English and worse English.

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I hear it’s a mix between Spanish and greek.

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ditto

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yea but it uses u can notice some English root words.

like Pater (father) and Mater (mother), ect.

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Latin is da conjunction of Arabic and Greek language (in other words Indo-European) which then one of its two forms, vulgar Latin became the roots for, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian all romance languages

and yes although English, a Germanic language, takes 60% of it’s words from vulgar Latin

Last edited 13 Nov 2007 10:51 am by zeta

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ok...

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i can read write 4 languages.. speak a couple more i guess.. that’d be it ..

and oh .. i can survive in Germany too perhaps


no Latin. id love to learn Persian , Latin and Sanskrit though .. teh great ones of the Indo-European language tree..

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The English language comes from Latin ...


I speak basic Spanish,fluent French & English and some Mohawk.

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Latin also mixes with Italian

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... no

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You just woke up one morning and decided randomly that you wanted to learn Latin today?

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not really, vulgar latin is the mother of romance languages (spanish, french, romanian, Portuguese and italian)

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hmm...i see

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Words we use are derived from Latin vocabulary, but English is Germanic in structure.

However, as zeta said, Latin led to the Romantic languages (hence the name).

And, no, I can’t speak Latin, nor do I really care to seeing these two things:

1) Its dead

2) I’m not a scientist