Is Latin Hard to Learn?

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Title	:	Is Latin Hard to Learn?
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2:10 funny enough he said your probably not used to saying vino which is the way you also say it in my country ( Croatia)
Comment from : Luka Frček

not if you can speak either french Spanish or italian
Comment from : Angus MacKaskill

Hello Olly Richards Latine frigus sonat Latine discere volo Tibi gratias ago pro communicando
Comment from : Zulkifli Jamil

It's the noun declension for me
Comment from : RunningRiot

Black in Latin be like
Comment from : Canadian

Equus est magnus brManus est magnabrCorpus est magnum brGender in Latin is easy! (Not!) 😢😂
Comment from : GV

A little correction: in italian the adjective place is free as in latin Putting before or after the noun gives different shades of meaningbrIt's still an excellent video though
Comment from : roberto malatesta

Latin - Very Chutiya language❤❤
Comment from : Ex Muslim Zafar Heretic

The problem with Latin is the correct pronunciation, the Romans had two kinds of Latin: (vulgar and classic) and the latin used today comes from the Catholic Church and it’s the one everyone knows and study and it’s called: (ecclesiastical Latin) with the pronunciation of some letters same as Italian So is not the same as the latin spoken by the RomansbrSpanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and the several other languages spoken in Spain today came from the Vulgar LatinbrSo for native speakers of Spanish the Vulgar Latin is very easy to learn it and pronounce it properly, Latin sounds weird when an English native speaker try to speak Latin, it doesn’t sound right but surely impresses the other ones who doesn’t knowbrYou see some silly gringos making videos bragging about speaking Latin but their pronunciation is not right
Comment from : Alexx

Lingua Latina multo difficilior est, quam ut eam discere possis Itaque tibi ne conandum quidem est, ne ei operam dare incipias!
Comment from : Günther Feist

Verb conjugations are much more regular than in the Romance languages Case system of nouns is better 'organized' than in German It does not have all the nit-picking irregularities of Italian - "in order to sound better" I enjoy it
Comment from : James Martinelli

People who can speak Spanish, French, Italian, Potuguese, and Romanian can understand Latin
Comment from : ДЖО КРАСЕНЬ

I love the way you start out with Irene and her fluent Latin
Comment from : Peter Brown

spero espero Esperanto How about a course in Esperanto? It is the language of One Who Hopes after all
Comment from : waltersumofan

The subjunctive + gerunds and gerundives made me want to quit I also hated “should/would” clauses and indirect/direct questions Oh and don’t even get me started with all the god damn uses for the Dative case 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Comment from : Asher Tzvi

Latin, in some ways, similar to Arabic, even some words are similar, would you believe that? brIn Arabic,brVerb conjugation, feminin or masculine reference, words order, SVO, OVS, VOS, SOV, VSO, OSV, but the words have to be conjugated accordingly So it is so complex Can you lerne a little Arabic? Though the Arabic vocabularies are in huge numbers but you can still with few words only speak
Comment from : مدرسة الماس

Greek and latin are the source of most scientific words in modern days !
Comment from : On Be

6:51 brought me STRAIGHT back to my first year of the Cambridge Latin Course at age 12, I somehow could still list most of it from memory haha We used to see how fast we could recite the whole lot from memory and it's obviously stuck!
Comment from : Ben

You have one huge problem with your videos You talk too fast and you do your slides faster than people can read
Comment from : MY WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY

1:20 Several of your "Latin" words actually come from French (aplomb, chivalrous, condign, cull, naïve, parvenu, rapport, rapprochement, taunt), and one is from Spanish (incommunicado) Of course, most French words come from Latin, but the rest of the words on the list came into English idirectly/i from Latin
Comment from : Ice Karma

I would say the grammar aspects are tricky, but once you learn the tricks or can be quite easy, though there are some aspects they use that was not used in todays Romance languages
Comment from : ItsEliza5

After Tagalog, Indonesian and Spanish I think latin will just be a piece of cake I really don't know where i will use it but it will be kinda fun to use some of it in a presentation
Comment from : FUJIMA

There is a lot of Latin Slang It's in Plautus and even in the Vulgate translation of the Bible brbr"Is qui Mingentem Parientem" for instance
Comment from : Venturus Ad Noctem

Learning Latin change my life I am learning on Duo I will read those book as well
Comment from : Brother Wulfbatt

As a Brazilian person latin is a mother language for me It's like travel to past and hear your language in the past, truth be toldIt's Exactly this!
Comment from : BatHaack

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Comment from : PEP( Paul English P)LEP( Luke English

The Latin quotes are the reason I want to learn Latin
Comment from : Jack Darcy

Can someone please translate this sentence to latin: "Easy access to learning"
Comment from : Ali Shettima

Lithuanian harder than Latin? Yeah, right Lithuanian is far easier
Comment from : SnArt

Have you got any videos on Irish or Scottish Gaelic in the works?
Comment from : Ellen MacKenzie-Mills

they do speak Latin in movies: Netflix's Barbarians and Mel Gibson's Passion of Christ are the examples
Comment from : Oh My Paper

I love the latin language, but only made it through 2 semesters of it in uni because it made me feel like my brain was melting
Comment from : Sara Rose

when that woman in the video started speaking i instinctively thought it was spanish or french or italian before remembering the video is about latin
Comment from : Alvs Notes

The truth is, and to be honest, English is really a hybrid language, since it is impossible to say that it is a purely Germanic language, considering the strong influence of Latin The vocabulary in English is 60 Latin and the grammar is 38 Latin (disproving the legend that English grammar is 100 Germanic) (data from BBC London by renowned philological studies from universities such as Cambridge, Stanford and Yale) Considering the above, the influence of Latin is colossal and undeniable English is a hybrid language and that makes it great
Comment from : George Baccett

I know Latin it teaches me at my school
Comment from : KaletheV

I came, I saw, I learn Latin
Comment from : Titalac Rosie

It can paradoxically be very difficult if you come from a Western Romance Language, because most often Words will be similar, but how they're strung together is totally different It's being able to remove that pesky crust of bias you might have about the degree of relatedness which makes learning Latin very difficult to some people
Comment from : TenorCantusFirmus

9:10 Your brain needs latin? Certainly not I had to learn latin for University and I forgot everything after a week of the final exam Never had to use it again and it never helped me with anything
Comment from : OhUiginn1697

As a Brazilian, it's very beautiful and warm to learn the Original Language to which Portuguese was born One day I will be fluent 😍😍
Comment from : Andy

10:36 Why is Romanian on the first list? It also has cases and three genders like German I don't get it at all
Comment from : MEP

3:00 I personally don't mind this I mean, I speak Spanish natively and I've learned other romance languages too To me, this is a normal thing I know it isn't for English native speakers The only thing that isn't so "normal" is the neuter gender It only exists in Romanian as far as I know (and I don't speak this language at all)br5:40 Same here A normal thing for me The only exception is French because you can't drop the pronoun in most sentences
Comment from : MEP

Multus sanguis fluit - latinbrMuito sangue flui - portuguese
Comment from : PJLA

probably we need just a reason for it and time so perhaps the next little glaciation
Comment from : mariano martinez

Excellent video! Thanks!
Comment from : Urban Hermit

dude wtf lol ive been buying your books for a long time (short stories in russian) and only recently found your channel never put two and two together that you were the same person haha
Comment from : oufie

Hello Olly and everyone as well,I just want to point something out Latin is and will remain a dead language if you choose to call it soFor instance, Someone like Father Reginald Foster not only taught Latin,he spoke, thought,lived and breathed Latin in his everyday lifeStudying under someone like him changed my perception of Latin and indeed most so called "dead languages"So, Taking care not to create offence,if you say that Latin is a dead language, look at Father Reginald Foster and Luke Ranieri of Scorpio MartianusThe works of these two Latin enthusiasts and teachers will certainly prove you wrong All the same, great video as always Olly ! I hope to see more of your work in the future
Comment from : Zikoraife Nneli

Latin isn't hard if you put your mind to it and study under a good teacherPeople like Father Reginald Foster (May He rest in Peace) really knew how to turn a Latin class into an entertaining zone In the end,it really boils down to your passion for the language although, the Languages you already know can helpFor instance, speaking Spanish, Italian or any of the Romance Languages before learning Latin us going to give you a feeling of Deja VuBecause Latin is the mother and the Romance Languages are her childrenYes, Latin can be quite a little tricky grammar Wise compared to her descendants and many features that it has are non existent or are formed differently from the Romance Languages yet,the similarities are still there if you really put your mind to it
Comment from : Zikoraife Nneli

0:49 it’s “propter”, not “prompter”; “numerous” doesn’t exist in latin, it’s written wrongly, it should be “numeros” They also did tons of pronunciation’s mistakes, but I’ll let that slide, cause it’s just their accentbrSorry but I had to do this
Comment from : Gianni Fois

I think you single handedly just doubled the amount of people who want to learn Latin
Comment from : Em&M

Netflix Barbarians speak Latin, it's not a block buster, but it's a good watch
Comment from : stefano Gismondi

And thanks to all the gay German monks who translated the bible into German, it, too, has Latin word order
Comment from : strafrag1

Latin was mandatory for me in pharmacy school And it was an awful experiencebrTo paraphrase an old advertisement: Latin Not even once
Comment from : Adam M

Next video- Is Arabic hard to learn?
Comment from : Zac

Back in the day as a teenager in Germany I had mandatory Latin courses in high school I was very bad at it and didn't like it, but in hindsight I appreciate the insights this language gave me
Comment from : NeedsEvidence

Coitus, ergo sum
Comment from : NeedsEvidence

Τα μισώ και θα τα καταργούσα, αν ήμουν Υπουργός Παιδείας Στη θέση τους, θα έβαζα την Κοινωνιολογία
Comment from : Ερευνητής Αλήθειας

Love all these Latin videos Olly! Will you consider creating a book Short Stories in Latin for beginners?
Comment from : TheStoicGreyhound

I've been studying Latin on my own for 2+ years now and it has been pretty fun I'm Finnish so I was very at home with the classical pronunciation of Latin and had a pretty easy time understanding the conjugation Latin only has 6 cases while Finnish has double that It does sometimes create problems because the ablative carries so many meanings, while in Finnish you have obvious endings for them But it really depends on the sentence Learning the basics of Latin and understanding the grammar isn't too hard The hardest part (for me) is acquiring and retaining vocabulary The word order can also get really wild if you're reading ancient texts, and poetry is still very hard for me to read And the hardest part of them all: so many words have multiple meanings They don't always mean the obvious and you just gotta learn them all Just look at the most diverse verb, "agere" It can mean to do, to manage, to convey, to act, to work etc But if you get a kick out of being able to understand Cicero in his native tongue Latin is really fun to learn!
Comment from : SweetTaLe

Latin is super easy Wink wink
Comment from : merial9

I think you make some good points and try not make it sound too hard, however, there really isn't all that much utility in attaining an intermediate level in latin - which you can attain in the same span as say German To enjoy Latin truly you will want to read all the great authors and enjoy the literature as well as maybe composing your own short stories and having fun using the language yourself which is going to take a much longer time than German in that case because for German there is far far more utility at having an intermediate level as opposed to latin Not many institutes teach latin for the purpose of speaking and using it and all their pronunciation seems to be horrible even though latin isn't all that difficult to pronounce They treat latin as a dead fossil to study it's grammar and to wonder at what you can translate and understand through that method which is a shame because it's a language like any other not some fossil to admire but not touch I think to speak latin is much much harder than to speak German but only because of the lack of resources and practice partners in spoken latin as well as the teaching methods in schools and ofcourse available entertainment in the language
Comment from : gangiskon

THE NEFLIX SERIES IS BARBARIANS FOR LATIN
Comment from : Burakatfb65de_Hileci

Can you give an example of a noun which has ten different case/number forms? There's a fair bit of syncretism, eg the dative and ablative plural are the same
Comment from : Pierre Abbat

No language can ever have more than three tenses Latin verbs reflect both tense and aspect
Comment from : annarboriter

Amazing video
Comment from : Deutsch mit Purple

I've been a Latin tutor for many years It's quite a bit more challenging grammar-wise than you made it sound Classical Latin was written without punctuation Therefore the main verb (The verb of the main sentence in an often complex sentence structure Adjectives and their correlating nouns can be far apart from each other in such structures) was used to indicate the end of a sentence (At least if you're interested in classical Latin, not the mediaeval variation Classical Latin to mediaeval Latin relates about the same as Shakespearean English to a conversation in the pub) brbrBut as a native German speaker, I can assure you that Latin is by far easier and more logical as a language than German brbrBy the way, there are 5 conjugations in Latin, not 4! As for the endings of nouns, there are several declinations (and two declination systems for adjectives) I wonder where you've got this number from Even the Vocative is sometimes different from the Nominative brbrAs for Latin speakers - up to this day, every member of the Catholic clergy is supposed to "speak" Latin
Comment from : Sina Phoenicia

Latino semplificato per tutti Sostiuire l'imperialismo anglofono è imperativo
Comment from : Solarpunk_Hive

9:09 mi hai colpito con la tua freccia
Comment from : Solarpunk_Hive

just buy lingua Latina per se illustrata by Hans oberg the best
Comment from : J Perez

Non crédo que lo latino èst tròppo diffícile (certamènte en comparatione con lo grèco antico) Pènso que la veritate símplice èst que lo latino èst símplicemente differènte en comparatione con las lenguas romànicas modèrnas La veritate èst que las lenguas romànicas son plus similares entre si que ad lo latino Pènso que la majjoria de las personas estarían de accòrdo que ad menos que qualquno hajja una rattsone aut un objectivo que requere lo latino, un conoscimènto bàsico de una lengua romànica aut una mescla de lenguas romànicas èst sufficiènte por la communicatione en un nivelo bàsicobrbrAut, como demòstra cueste commentario, una persona pòte usare lo neolatino, que èst una lengua que consèrva lo lèxico et la grammàtica de lenguas romànicas normales ad lo ponto que moltos parlantes de lenguas romànicas solo necessitan cambiare cèrtas paraulas Èst como lo intereslavo (si qualcuno conosce cueste projècto), mais por las lenguas romànicas
Comment from : Deiga

I've decided that if I'm going to learn just one dead language, it's probably gonna be Old Norse since I'm partially Scandinavian, and honestly, it's mostly because of how cool it looks and sounds It'd 100 be a vanity language that'd be more of a party trick than anything, but I already got the Viking look down, so I might as well get the Viking sound down too, right?
Comment from : Seek Thuth

i wonder if olly is from the manchester area
Comment from : L7D

I started learning Latin a few weeks ago, and I find it very easy to learn I guess it's because I speak Spanish
Comment from : Héctor R Brahms

Netflix blockbuster with Latin, Barbarians
Comment from : Ben Griffiths

There is at least one film in Latin - Derek Jarman's Sebastiane
Comment from : londongael

As a native Croatian speaker, Latin grammar actually came rather naturally to me when I had it in high school
Comment from : Tatratram

Olly: Latin has limited vocabulary so that means less words to learnbrAlso Olly: there's ten possible word endings brbrLmao Latin is great to learn and quite similar to Russian not in how it sounds but how it's structured They are definitely not the same
Comment from : Shadefinder1

A lot depends on the teachers, it seems I've met so many people who said they hated it, but my teacher taught it conversationally and we all seemed to enjoy it This was 30 years ago but I am learning it again now It's definitely helpful when it comes to learning the grammar or languages like German, and vocabulary in any of the Romance languages as well as in English, and in science, medicine, and law Some of it can seem more complicated than some other modern languages, but with effort, motivation, and the right materials, any language can be fun to learn!
Comment from : AncientRomeWithAmy

Hi Olly! I think you forgot to mention that nowadays in Vatican latin is spoken by the Church so the people who wants to learn it can go there!
Comment from : Alessandro Valente

Along with Roman aphorisms, let's not forget the specialized terms in medicine, law, diplomacy and the like
Comment from : yorgunsamuray

The netflix show Barbarians is partly in Latin and it has a great story about arminius
Comment from : Alkibiades

I'm currently learning Latin It's very doable
Comment from : Ian R

After learn French and Spanish Latin seems not so hard, I may learn more about Latin in the future but now I am still learning Scottish Gaelic and German 👍🏻😉
Comment from : Georges Aubert Wettin de France

Is finnish hard could be a good video
Comment from : Ahti Sivonen

1:42 Attention! N-word, N-word)) I'm russian, when I studied in the US, americans laughed at my accent But on latin lessons i already laughed What was the cost of burry attempts to pronounce the Latin "R" I'm not talking about the impossibility of understanding what cases are, the logic of changing cases, coordinating genders, cases and numbers
Comment from : Bender Rodriguez

Would Latin assist in a doctor or lawyer career?
Comment from : Citrus🍋

Thanks for doing one on Latin! Great suggestion to "let your brain get used to case endings by doing lots of reading" Too may people get stressed out about producing perfect Latin too early on Don't Be patient, and it will come
Comment from : Cory Jorgensen