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        • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
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          3 months ago

          No, because it’s an unnecessarily complicated language that doesn’t even have that many speakers. There’s basically the same amount of people who would have to learn it as for Esperanto (knowing some Latin and speaking it fluently are very different), and learning Latin to the level of fluency would take much longer than Esperanto.

          • erebion@news.erebion.euEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Yeah and English is well established, most people already know some of it.

            Still, I like languages, so Latin seems interesting to me. :D

            • Æ@piefed.socialEnglish
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              3 months ago

              In that case read Lingua Latina per se Illustrata by Hans Orberg. I now read quite well in latin thanks to his self teach books, but theyre really interesting - they teach using the natural method… ie there is no english or french or anything - the entire book is in latin. The first lines are :

              Roma in Italia est.
              Italia in Europa est.
              Italia et Francia in Europa sunt.

              And then you have to figure out (with the help of cryptic annotations) that est (is) is singular and sunt (are) is plural. No going back to your own language, no phrases. By the end of the first chapter you are beginning to decline nouns and adjectives. Puella pulchra est, Puellae pulchrae sunt. And you have no idea you are doing it. No boring rote learning of declensions, its like you’re learning as you would as a child.

              And now I can mostly understand reading romance languages I don’t know well(romanian, spanish, etc) thanks to learning latin (Also, I am a fluent french speaker) and other people have copied his method into loads of languages so I collected lots of natural method books for german and italian etc.

  • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    If I had to chose, I would rather speak Latin: amazing collection of work available to read from, and to discuss about.

    But as others have mentioned English is not a US made language and they certainly do not own it. English comes from Britain but its rooted in old Germanic language. It’s also a mix of a few other languages (including my own French… which is also a mix btw).