Tell me if you speak Latin?

Question

I am learning Latin.

Answer 1

Quite a few people can read Latin from a text and translate it, though very few people can speak it accurately with consistency, with correct vowel quantities and stresses while speaking.

If you are interested in learning how to actually speak Latin, then the stuff you can download from the Latinum podcast is just what you're looking for. You can hear quite a few different people speaking latin on the site, and there are also language lab style lessons. If you use these, you'll leap ahead at school.

http://latinum.mypodcast.com

Answer 2

Learn Latin at some point. The more Latin words you use in your English, the more elegant you will sound. Latin will tell you a much your own language (if you are a native English speaker, that is). The greatest influx of Latin words into English came through Norman French in the Middle Ages. England was conquered by the French (Normans) in 1066.

Answer 3

Nope

Answer 4

yes, I do.
Had to learn it in school for six years
Vitae, non scholae discimus (or was it the other way round)
Anyway, I still believe it's a great language to know.

Answer 5

Only the common and legal words/sentences. For example "pacta sund servanda" , "mutatis mutandis", "in toto", "per se", "lex fori / causae / loci celebrationis" ...............

Answer 6

Just legalese. We always say stuff like, "res ipsa loquitur," "ex post facto," and "illegitimus non carborundum."

Answer 7

Nego.

Answer 8

Ask your teacher to translate this:

"Fiat veritas, ruat coelum!"

Answer 9

english only

Answer 10

i know somebody who does