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Title	:	How Latin Works
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I’d struggle to call Latin dead It’s revival in via the public school system has really boosted the amount of people that can read and speak it The only issue is that latin, in most schools, isn’t taught like a language, but as more of a math While most languages are taught via acquisition, latin is taught as some sort of formula, where the only way to understand text is to translate; this mistaken method actually makes attaining competency in the language harder and discourages students from continuing with latin after fulfilling whatever course requirements they needbrbrLuckily there is a growing movement within the latin community pushing high schools and universities to use more immersive textbooks like Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, but the old guard has been really firm in their position on the matter and the changes aren’t being made fast enoughbrbrClassical latin is a beautiful language and I honestly prefer to write and read it over my other languages like modern Greek, Spanish, Italian, and German If anyone is even slightly interested in learning latin, pick up a copy of LLPSI and give a read
Comment from : Bigbo 1

Since there are many countries speak languages which are daughters of latin in western Europ and the Americas, so why don't these countries recognize the classical form of latin to be a dominant in their countries and lingua franca between them just like the Arabic speaking countries in the middle east and north Africa have done!
Comment from : ich

Although Greek and Latin are different languages, Greek has a similar phonetic sounding as Latin
Comment from : Ernest Chacon

I had this video on my 'watch later' list for over 3 years and I can't seem to find out why it took me so long to watch it, it's wonderful!
Comment from : Shmebulock

Para mim, que sou falante nativo da língua portuguesa, o espanhol e o italiano são os idiomas mais inteligíveis, enquanto o romeno e o francês são mais dificultosos No caso, se vir como os francês e/ou os romenos escrevem determinada palavra, consigo entendê-los
Comment from : Allejandro David

Latin is not Greek, Latin is Latin Case closed
Comment from : ChipsDim

💖💖💖
Comment from : Kathy Ryan

There are many more branches of Latin language, some are still spoken while some disappeared last century
Comment from : MIhaela Desaga

Nhờ ơn Chúa Thánh Thần nên trong năm 2016 ở Việt Nam giống Xuất hành chương 7 câu 14 đến chương 10 câu 29:brSố 2; Nước biến thành máu : Cả 4 tỉnh miền Trung và thế giới từ 2016 đến 2023: Nước biến thành máu brSố 2:Ếch: Cả nước brSố 4:Muỗi: Cả nước brSố 4:Ruồi nhặng: Cả nước brSố 5:Ôn dịch: Sốt xuất huyết, sốt rét brSố 6:Ung nhọt: Bệnh Tay Chân Miệng brSố 7:Mưa đá: ở Sapa và các vùng lân cận brSố 8:Châu chấu: ở Lai Châu và thế giới từ 2016 đến 2023brSố 9:Cảnh tăm tối: Đó là 21,22,23 tháng 12 khi trái đất ở xa nhất mặt trời thì Bắc cực sẽ có ba ngày ba đêm không nhìn thấy nhau brRồi một đêm tôi nằm mơ thấy những nấm mồ mầu trắng ở đó có hình Thánh Giá mầu trắng chung quanh là tím than Rồi có tiếng hét: Chết hết cả rồi ! Tôi giật mình thức giấc:12 giờ đêm ở Mỹ (1 giờ đêm) Ở Việt Nam là 15 giờ cùng ngày brRồi một đêm khác tôi nằm mơ thấy hai con chim nhạn bị bắn chết Tôi nghe nó nói… và Tận thếbrVậy…… rồi tận thế lúc 12 giờ đêm ở Mỹ (1 giờ đêm) Ở Việt Nam là 15 giờ cùng ngày brYouTube:” Những dòng sông nước chảy như máu từ thế giới 2016 đến 2023” và “Những đàn châu chấu từ thế giới 2016 đến 2023”brDịch bệnh , lủ lụt, các điềm lạ, động đất, hạn han…,brPhản Kito là ĐGH brSắp tận thế lúc 15 giờ cùng ngày
Comment from : Thiện Tạ

Great video
Comment from : Angband Art

So im Mexican American meaning ik Spanish and one time I heard someone speaking in Italian and i understood them so well
Comment from : Higamers2007

Portuguese is my first language And yeah! I can follow Spanish, Italian easily French is not easy for me
Comment from : Anselmo de Oliveira

A nice vid there, the algorithm showed it to me just now :)brWhen you explain the hard C/K at 5:45, you wrote Kye-ser and pronounced something like "Kayzr" as an English speaker would You pronounced the first sound right but the rest of the word wrong :)brIt was Kaaaa-eh-sssaarrr (if you like), there are almost 3 syllables there, not just 2 (the middle E is pronounced quite separately, with the same sound as the E in "bed", not as a dipthong with A) brFarther in the video you say that AE is pronounced as a diphthong but for your explanation of the word Caesar, it is more useful to NOT consider it a dipthtong, to not confuse English speakers because Romans pronounced it far less fluidly as you do in EnglishbrThe S is always as in "sing", it never changes to Z Hear it here: enwiktionaryorg/wiki/Caesar#LatinbrSame for Caelum Kaaaa Eh Lum Three syllables for the purposes of this simple explanation (hear it here: enwiktionaryorg/wiki/caelum)brAt 13:20 you included Hungarian and Finnish in European languages and while that's kinda okay and they're spoken in Europe, just like Arabic is spoken in Europe and Africa, for example, they are not Indo-European languages, just like Arabic is not European or "African", and have almost nothing in common except for some indirect influences The other listed languages are European by all meansbrCheers!
Comment from : P H

Could you make some videos on teaching us how to speak Latin pls
Comment from : HL Wizard-Girl Wizard

Why do you always talk in a way which sounds like you are almost apologising in your intonation? Every sentence is full of a most peculiar attitude brIt might be a technique to engage a particular type of audience I suppose Maybe it’s not even a real voice… some of the newer robot voices are truly amazing! Anyhoo, thanks for clearing up the origin of the hard C and Kaiser etc I’ve been trying to knit together those two lands for the longest time And still I’m only one tiny step closer, but it’s a step I am pleased with
Comment from : Jesuis

I'm wondering if there is an issue with the way you pronounce the "v" at the beginning of words For instance, you pronounce the word "videt" as "wee-det", whereas I would be inclined to pronounce it as "ooh-ee-det" Maybe it depends on the time, and the location, or maybe I'm completely off My understanding is that Latin has very consistent pronunciation of letters, which would render the "v" sound as an "ooh" sound (like "Ivlivs" or "ee-ooh-lee-oohs" (Julius)), regardless of its position in the word I don't know Either way, good video!
Comment from : Belenus3080

I'm a spanish speaker and I have been learning portuguese for a few months and it is incredibly easy thanks to their similarities
Comment from : Coquíjueputa🇵🇷

ATTN!!!!brbrVERE EST DEUS!!!!brbr brGO IN U TUBE ET LITTERAE NOMINE brbr KRYONbrbrTANTUMDEM Deus nos amat!!!
Comment from : Johnny Yi

0:45 don’t forget about Catalan
Comment from : Troydengames4

Veritas: Northern Chicks, according to Mexicans
Comment from : Armando René Cantú

Pronunciation is way easier being a Spanish speaker lol
Comment from : El Casco De Hades

❤️😊🇺🇲
Comment from : Love America, USA

What a fascinating language, I think I'm going to try and learn it!
Comment from : Edward Sallow

well english can inflected easily: “the boy is watching a show” or “a show being played on a tv, is being watched by a boy”
Comment from : juan

Ive seen that European Spanish is way more similar to other Romance Languages than American Spanish
Comment from : Pa H

Et cetera thank you for including that little joke in the video hahah 👍
Comment from : Justice_w6

So often, when I ear Spanish, Portugues or Italian I get at least 50 of what they are saying
Comment from : Yann Gaudreault

I'm a learner of Spanish for many years (native American English), and I once watched a video in which a native Spanish-speaker and French-speaker had to guess what a Romanian speaker was saying At times I actually understood the Romanian better than the Spanish
Comment from : Nachours Dez

I will say I had a similar experience having learned French--In learning Latin I have been able to more quickly understand stems and even verb conjugations Latin is of course a case system so there are different conjugations for different verb tenses, but they all generally resemble the same system as French I plan on learning Greek so I am curious how much the knowledge I have now will help in learning that
Comment from : Luke Fortier

Awesome
Comment from : Carl Ferolie

Native romanian speaker!! I understand about 70 of Italian 60 of Spanish and about 50 or less portuguese (I also speak french)
Comment from : David Barboianu

I have first hand witnessed a Mexican and a Italian speak their native languages to one another and they both k ew what the other was saying I witnessed this a lot at the company I used to work for Italian Owned and we had multiple Mexicans who worked there I stayed confused because I know neither of those languages 🤷🏼‍♂️ I would randomly just comment things in German to confuse them from time to time 😂
Comment from : LoneWolf Tech

But the romans language was a semitic language
Comment from : Malik Abuhajar

Bueller? Bueller?
Comment from : A Alistair

CC spelled Kee-karow as gee ghetto
Comment from : Eric Thomas

Enjoying your videos very much Would love one on Portuguese/Brazilian history & language, and/or the history of the Latin languages from ancient into modern day variants
Comment from : reelnoncents

Yeah, im spanish and i can understand italian perfectly most of the times
Comment from : Raúl de la R

I can never remember what the dialect is called, but I've taken 4 years of Spanish and 2 years of Latin, and when I went to visit family in the Philippines, I ended up understanding about 15 of what my mom and family were saying because Spanish infiltrated my mom's native dialect so heavily No grammar, just vocab, but even that was a pretty significant head start
Comment from : Cyh

The latin language although dead was the spear of influence in the ancient world Yet the Etruscans(and a bit of the Greeks and Egyptians) I believe had something to do with Romulus and Remus It's like those two brothers origins of their birth(where the originate) could explain why the Romans and some ancient African nations mingled with one another
Comment from : Ant

Romanes eunt domusbr😆
Comment from : Red Blaze

I had one conversation one time that proves how easy the Romance languages are to understand once u know one I’m a native Spanish speaker and I was talking with my Italian friend and my Brazilian teacher; we here all talking our native languages and we still understand each other
Comment from : Juan Sebastian Ochoa

Latin is something The word buffalo came from the Portuguese word bufalo, which in turn came from the Late Latin word bufalus, which in turn came from the Classical Latin word bubalus The word melon when referring to melopepons came from melonem, which is the accusative form of the Late Latin word melo (it means a melopepon), which in turn is the first part of the Classical Latin word melopepo By melopepon, I mean a “melon” like a cantaloupe or honeydew The word griffin came from gryphonem, which is the accusative form of gryphus, which was the Roman writer Pomponius Melo’s form of gryphis, which is the genitive form of the Latin word gryps The word squirrel came from the Old French word esquirel, which in turn came from the Medieval Latin word scuriolus, which in turn came from the Vulgar Latin word scurius, which in turn came from the Classical Latin word sciurus The word human came from the Latin word humanus and yet a “human” is called homo, which means a man, in that language By man, I mean a “human” regardless of age or gender While humanus did not come from homo, both came from the same Indo-European root
Comment from : Adam El-Yousseph

It’s CAESAR
Comment from : Alexandra Georgiana

10:35 12:15 12:52
Comment from : Guadalupe Freyre

13:07 point proven
Comment from : Noah Ferrizzi

Subject + Object + Verb word order? Did Yoda teach them?brCongratulations on the video Linguistics is awesome
Comment from : Pedro Salazar

Sometimes I'll make up my own words because i don't know it says sometimes i guess an actual word sometimes it's totally new and people still understand exactly what I mean but say its not a word and I'll be like it is now people stand in the way of the languages progression getting caught up on what they've been taught thinking they can't add to it not understanding that's exactly how all words came to be slang eventually gets worked into the dictionary and becomes official anyways
Comment from : Mario

0:24 Kami's lookout
Comment from : Chris Tahji

Easy Pete was right all along
Comment from : Nuclear Runt

Caesars is kaysar in Arabic
Comment from : آكل الدهون

I'm French, I once happened to watch a cycling race on an Italian TV channel I didn't know any of the words, but it was possible to guess what they were saying because the roots were the same and sounded the same Le "peloton" (the main pack of cyclists) was "plotone", "two" was "due" which sounds similar to "duo" (a group of two)brIt was a little strange, I sort of understood a sentence made of words I didn't know ^^
Comment from : Telenil

ueni, vidi, viki
Comment from : Jerry Crow

Other languages pronouncing 6: Six, SetebrLatin pronouncing 6: S E X
Comment from : Tabbender

As a Spanish speaker I can understand Italian, Catalan and Portuguese, some French and barely Romanian
Comment from : El Foreigner

Great, great, great video 👍👍👍👍👍🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Comment from : dv

El castellano el italiano y el portugués son las lenguas más cercanas unas con otras estas 3 podrían considerarse dialéctos de latín modernoel francés y el rumano no son tan cercanas ya son lenguas latinas a parte
Comment from : Gio_Toro85

Russians call a "y" an "igrek" We don't have such latter in our alphabet, thou we use such pronunciation in math
Comment from : Dima Dekhtiarov

This is awesome I wish my dad can understand English so I can share this video to him
Comment from : Daniel Villalobos

mmmm what if we say it is rather a zombie language?
Comment from : Willder Mendoza

After learning French I have definitely found myself able to read many Spanish and Italian sentences though I've not put any time into learning them
Comment from : Jeremy Day

only the romanian have a language that doesn't fit in the doctrine
Comment from : m kaqss

old english is just: old sumerian which became egyptian, greek, jiddisch and/or dutch german
Comment from : m kaqss

vatican city, london city(apart of uk law)and washington dc all exempt of natural law and 3 of the 7 heads that want to smithe thei
Comment from : m kaqss

like mandarin, hong kong and imperial chineze, they spell differend
Comment from : m kaqss

learn Dietzbrand jiddisch, we are all jews
Comment from : m kaqss

arbo pleurius, audius yesius et nonius there-ius
Comment from : m kaqss

aha you seem to have not heard of the phoenicians
Comment from : m kaqss

For an Italian Latin is pretty easy to learn, but it's still hard to learn all the forms
Comment from : INT_Frabit Night

Roman influence the Germans alot
Comment from : La Culpa La Tienen Todos!

Latin is not a "dead" language it isFORBIDDEN to be taughtwhy?brbrbrbrbrJust like back in the days, only the elite, papacy, churchs learned latin To keep the mass in ignorance brbrLearning latin is equivalent to obtain power Latin is used in spell casting Once you know latin, you will see their evil deeds
Comment from : Eliza

I heard a random women speak italian and understood everything as a romanian
Comment from : Radu Cristea

I just now realized why I can read words written backwards and upside down or at least a use for it
Comment from : John Johnny

An obscure fact, I love is that English picked up some french words twice, there is the Norman "warden" and the Parisian "guard" for example, the Normans pronounced "guard" "Warde", so there you go This is also why it is not Gilliam the conqueror but William the concur or y "William the conqueror" is not called "Guillaume" it is not that the english were unable to pronouce it, it was a different scandinavian french
Comment from : Tilman Enke

Funny how Caesar in classical latin sounds like Kaiser in german
Comment from : Sharp Though

How can I contact you
Comment from : Domingo

can you help me with a couple of Latin sentences How can I get in touch with you?
Comment from : Domingo

V in Greek/Roman sounds like “Wuh” and in English, W “Double U” 🤔 & makes the “Wuh”, that makes the V also a U? 😭 wow now everything sounds weird to me now 🤣😭 im at a loss 🤯🔥🔥
Comment from : Remy Verde

Arabic speakers pronounce latinized terms with the old latin pronounciation Thank you excellent video
Comment from : Yousef Layyous

Just off the sound you can tell some Ukrainian words were influenced by Latin, interesting stuff 👍🏼
Comment from : russku

I am a native speaker of portuguese I understand perfectly spanish (perfectly), Italian is a bit more complex but I can understand in a general and, before learning french I didn't understood NOTHING (today I am fluent so)
Comment from : DrollPlace

Small influence in English, really? Latin compose almost 60 of English language with count the French influence as well
Comment from : Pedro Henrique

Latin: Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Galician and PortuguesebrbrThe romance languages are the best ;)
Comment from : Vítor J Pereira

👌👌👌thanks for this Im def subscribing
Comment from : Yung Muko

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Comment from : pablo montagna

If you listen to people in greek roman and French brYou understand but can not reply
Comment from : andrew carbine

11:26
Comment from : test tester

Spanish for brveni' vidi, VicibrVeni, vivi, venci
Comment from : ayliah loss

Bilingual here spanish/English When you understand both languages, you can see the strong influence of rome in the germanic born English
Comment from : ayliah loss

this makes sense
Comment from : madi

Every Time an american makes a video talking about classical latin, they butcher how is the short vowel pronunciation
Comment from : Zenytram Searom

7:50 ARE you sure of it ?????? just look above the long vowels at the imaga at 0:50
Comment from : Zenytram Searom

Basically, in English Latin derived words are more often used in formal or academic context, while Germanic words are used in casual conversations brbrExamples:brbrUnited States President's immigration plan separates familiesbr(Not actually true I just made something up)brbrThat sentence is very Latin influenced brbrNow compare brbrI had breakfast with my friends yesterday brbrThat casual conversation sentence is very Germanic influenced
Comment from : Hiram Bright