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Gollum87
Diglot
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Yugoslavia
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Speaks: Serbian*, English
Studies: Italian

Message 9 of 11

05 May 2014 at 3:02pm | IP Logged

Thank you all for your advice.. I shouldn't let others make choice for myself.. I just
think about all of them telling me that Latin isn't very useful, and sometimes I think
what should be my 'language learning' priorities.. (My English isn't perfect, yet for
example)..

Serpent wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have the impression that having been
inseparable from education and science in the past, religion still plays a role here.
So in predominantly Orthodox countries/regions like Russia, Serbia, Eastern and Central
Ukraine, there are fewer loans from Latin in use than in Czech Republic, Croatia,
Western Ukraine or especially Poland. Instead we have more loans from Greek and Old
Church Slavonic/Bulgarian.

Latin has a strong influence in Serbian, even though we are Orthodox country... So many
words have Latin roots, and Latin is still used in medicine, pharmacy, law etc..
Even so many basic words in Serbian are Latin (for example - nacija (nation),
populacija, maximalno, optimizam, pessimizam, plus, minus, persona,... and all names of
months are in Latin (Januar, Februar, Mart, April..)

Serbia was once the part of Roman Empire, and there are many archeological places with
ruins from that period... Even my hometown Belgrade, was once a Roman city called
Singidunum :)

Edited by Gollum87 on 05 May 2014 at 3:06pm
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Serpent
Octoglot
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Russian Federation
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Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish

Message 10 of 11

05 May 2014 at 3:17pm | IP Logged

Yes, that's how it is in Russian too. And although we have less words from Latin than for example Polish, it's still a lot.
I think the Serbian standard is also more welcoming towards any loan words, Latin or not.
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haziz
Bilingual Triglot
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United States
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Speaks: Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian)*, English*
Studies: Spanish

Message 11 of 11

11 May 2014 at 12:44am | IP Logged

If you want to study Latin then by all means study Latin. Personally I would pick a living language over a dead one,
even an influential dead one, any day.

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