The best way to learn a language is to use it. So if yall can speak the language i'd like to talk.
Valete
2006-08-27 11:13:25 · 14 answers · asked by Michael Reynolds 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I just know "O Come All Ye Faithful" in Latin from Midnight Mass. :-)
2006-08-27 11:36:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Beautiful language... though dead, really. I respect all the people in the world that can still speak Latin. All I remember are some sayings in Latin, that's all, but I used to be pretty good at reading it ( I am a Romanian, reading Latin is a walk in the park for me). In the meantime, I can give you some tips in as far as English language is concerned. Your sentence "So if yall can speak the language i'd like to talk." needs some commas (I will not take into account the small "i" for "I" and the "y'all" for "you all"; I know you know them well). So, here's your sentence, the way it should look: "So, if y'all speak the language, I'd like to talk." One more thing: "y'all" should be replaced with "any of you".
That's really amusing: a Romanian who is not able to speak the language of his ancestors is teaching a Latin speaking American how to write more correctly in English. Man, I love this world.
P.S. If you are not American, I apologize, but, anyway, I think that you are a native speaker of English.
2006-08-27 21:46:57 · answer #2 · answered by mrquestion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I speak Latin. It's starting to get kind of rusty though because I haven't used it for years. I agree with you completely that the best way to learn a language is by using it.
2006-08-28 05:53:31 · answer #3 · answered by undir 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Salvete!
I took a class of Latin and Etymology in college. I don't remember much that's of any use, though:
Asinus templum spectat (The donkey looks at the temple...)
I could probably do better if I practiced, but I'm sorry to say, now that I've passed the class, and learned all the neat declinative cases to help me learn German and Russian, I don't see any reason to know how to speak a dead language...
2006-08-27 20:13:37 · answer #4 · answered by nellierslmm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i don`t but i plan to learn it... It is the language that stays at the origin of the Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Romanian. And hopefully, someday i`ll be fluent in Latin.
2006-08-27 19:02:38 · answer #5 · answered by Sir Alex 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do - I just randomly append "ic" "icum" or "icus" to about a third of the english words. OK, I'm kidding. I do however know someone who speaks Latin (met her in a very unlikely place). Wait! I remeber from a law class - "Mens Rea" = criminal intent. Wait, still more... "Agrostis Palustris" = Bentgrass.
2006-08-27 18:27:06 · answer #6 · answered by DashRockwood 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't really "speak" it much, except for occasionally in church, but I know it & have read the classics in Latin.
2006-08-27 18:26:53 · answer #7 · answered by Amy L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Non solus es.
Ecce! Haec verba Latina sunt.
2006-08-29 17:43:36 · answer #8 · answered by zlevad29 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Geeky people are the coolest.
2006-08-27 18:47:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
sorry, wish I did - only at Mass and a few songs like Ave Maria, Agnus Dei and such.
2006-08-27 18:21:56 · answer #10 · answered by Marysia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋