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| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6784 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes  Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 1 of 44 26 September 2010 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I never thought I would be asking this question (not even last week), but it seems that
my appetite for languages is expanding, especially where the regional similarities carry over into neighboring languages. Italian is a lot of fun, and I'm pretty confident that I'll start learning French within a year. Meanwhile I've already browsed around and found some books on similarities between Romance languages that I'm probably going to get in the near future. I also find it fun to see how the various italic dialects look like offshoots from Italian (Corsican), French (Piedmontese) and Spanish (Sardinian) and I'm guessing Latin (in the case of Friulian). Anyway, while in the neighborhood and so on, right? So that's where my question comes from. I don't really know anything about Latin and I've never had the impulse to study a dead language before. So I'm wondering what you can get out of it. What can you do with it? What do the people who know Latin do for fun? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5698 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 2 of 44 26 September 2010 at 3:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It's a matter of fact that Italian has its roots in Latin. Let's say a degenerated Latin. Latin, and you surely
know, is the language for priests (among others) going to Rom for study in the Vatican. They can study and communicate with others from all possible countries. Special: even the texts on the bancomat at the Vatican State are in Latin. I think it's fun for the person translating the bancomat texts for that purpose. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6784 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 3 of 44 26 September 2010 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Actually, I heard somewhere that the official language of the Vatican is.. Italian. I
don't remember who told me that, but I remember thinking "that's so lazy". 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 4 of 44 26 September 2010 at 3:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I find Latin a lot of fun. It fascinated me from the start to read accounts from 2000
years ago or more. Apart from all the literature available in Latin, some of which is still counted among the best literature of all times, I particularly enjoy reading accounts that bring that world to life, e. g. an eyewitness account of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius - they didn't know what hit them. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6784 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 5 of 44 26 September 2010 at 4:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
So what is there to read? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 6 of 44 26 September 2010 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
What do you mean? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_literature 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6784 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 7 of 44 26 September 2010 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yeah, that's what I meant. It's the first time I see a list like that and I have to say
it looks pretty incredible. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5220 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 8 of 44 26 September 2010 at 5:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm a great fan of the scientific literature ....some of it it still being written in Latin until two hundred years ago.
My latin is a bit rusty though! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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