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I think we have to democratise Latin as much as possible and get it out there as much as possible, to try to rid it of its elitist connotations. Latin was for everyone, from the plebeians to the patricians and everyone in between. omnes discere loqui linguam Latinam possunt!
@@gah-kaileung7075 The Internet has already achieved that, to some extent. You can easily find tons of resources for free if you take the time too look. Anyone with an internet connection and some spare time can learn latin
Studying Latin for 3 years in high school did not give me fluency in the language itself, but it did give me an extraordinary facility for learning Romance langs. I now speak Spanish natively and French. almost so.
If you had invested the time spent learning Latin at the beginning into studying Spanish and French (followed by the same amount of time you subsequently studied those languages) do you think your Spanish/French would be better than it is now? I’m interested in the Latin debate, but this particular argument has always seemed short-sighted to me. I speak both Spanish and French, but I can’t understand why I would start with Latin and not simply start with my target language.
@@RadicalPersonalFinance It's all about the substrate of knowledge granted and the communication opportunities afforded. By learning Latin first, even to a basic degree, you expand not only your English vocabulary, but you also get an understanding of grammatical concepts that are found in major languages across the world. It makes jumping into your target language a much more comfortable and accelerated process- though in my experience, the reverse can be true as well; I am a fluent speaker of French, and picked up conversational Latin in a matter of hours thanks to that. Knowing Latin will help you bridge gaps between other Romance languages, and make it even easier to learn them on a conversational level if you choose to do so in the future. It's all about how far you want to go in the pursuit of language. Best of luck.
@@guymcaulay8996 `That happens with romance languages anyways, it's not because latin is the root. knowing french makes spanish easy, for example, so yeah, if instead of latin you went with italian, french and spanish, it would have been just as easy after the first language. French would've given you a far greater advantage with the english vocabulary, compared to latin. Learning latin is useful if you want to read latin.
@@StoufSto latin is also useful cuz it has a complex structure and training your brain translating it is extremely helpful for japanese for example (as he said). Being an Italian native and a latin learner I can ensure you that latin is great to learn german. fun fact: Italians understand pretty well spanish but spanish people have more difficulty to understand italian.
@@int_frabitnight8110 Lo so che serve. Sono italo-canadese, e parlo italiano, francese e inglese. Ho imparato lo spagnole tanto facilmente! That said, my point was not that latin isn't useful, but more that knowing latin is just as useful to understand romance languages as knowing another romance language already would be, so maybe just learn a few romance language if that was your goal to begin with. No need to go through latin first!
That's great! Let me know if you have any questions. If you want to see spoken Latin in action, please check out my other channel ScorpioMartianus :-) ua-cam.com/video/BbcRm5EbGxg/v-deo.html
@@anon2030 yes, of course, everything is definitely based on conspiracy theories, not pragmatic reasons (that may be wrong, but still were arrived at through deliberate discussion without bad faith reasoning). Of course, the lizardmen are out to get us.
I'm a 50 year old man who had Latin in high school a LONG time ago and your ability to speak it and have so much enthusiasm for Latin prompted me to buy both the Lingua Latina books and I'm off to a great start. I still remember quite a lot from high school, surprisingly, but now I want to speak it too!!
@@polyMATHY_Luke Do you speak Russian? I'm learning Russian. A fantastic language (probably harder to learn than Latin for me, my mother tongue being French). I'm trying to read books in Russian now, I wish there was an equivalent of Lingua Latina per se illustrata in Russian! (Русский язык, проиллюстрированный сам по себе!). Just like Rural Squirrel I had Latin in high school, I loved it and still remember quite a lot, now you make me feel like learning it anew, as a living language! In fact I just ordered Lingua Latina... And I'd like to find Latin conversation partners (I live in France, in Montpellier).
Latin was my favorite subject in college, and it greatly expanded my vocabulary. However, when I became a lawyer and started training to be a trial lawyer the instructors told us not to use Latinized words because it could sound pompous to the jury and turn them against you. Instead we were taught to speak Anglo-Saxon which is what we Americans generally speak. Even though 70% of our vocabulary is Latin, 70% of our spoken language is Anglo-Saxon. In fact the top 100 spoken words are Anglo-Saxon.
@@tomoth77 No? It’s not? Only 25% of English vocabulary is from or based on Latin, another 25% is from older forms of French thanks to the Norman’s. That’s only about half of the vocabulary being romance based and only a quarter of that is directly from Latin. If it was 70% as you say, English would be a Romance language, not a Germanic one. Further more, Anglo-Saxon was an actual language, one that is no longer spoken though it’s direct descendent (English) is.
Internet rabbit hole for me. When I was in Catholic grade school in the 1960's and the good nuns were preparing us for high school, Sister Matthias said something along the lines of, "and of course you will take Latin." And I did, but I did not understand what I was trying to accomplish. I looked at Latin as a "substitution cipher" where one just got out a dictionary, replaced the Latin words with the English words, and one was done. In college, I took a Greek class, and the teacher mentioned a guy he had met in college named Henry Parker. The story was that this person had been abandoned as an infant at a monastery and raised by a German-speaking monk who could communicate with his fellow monks only in Latin, so Mr. Parker became in effect a native speaker of Latin. In college he would show off his skill by playing the scouting films from the college football team and rendering the play-by-play in Latin. Or so the legend goes. In retirement now in 2021 I am going through two books I bought some decades ago that look like an earlier version of LLPSI. The first pages look the same, the author is the same, but the two-volume set is called "Lingua Latina Secundum Naturae Rationem Explicata." Concurrently, I am investigating how much Latin vocabulary I might have but not know, by going through the English-to-Latin section of my Latin-English dictionary and writing down every word that is almost exactly the same except for some standard suffix changes, like "applaud" equals "applaudo." I have heard of Professor Tunberg's summer camp and would love to go, but that might not come to pass. I have discovered the weekly Latin Zoom meetings but am not yet capable of participating. For now I will plod along through my books and the internet rabbit holes I keep finding.
You are doing a great service to people with all your work on Latin and Greek! (I was a little surprised that you didn't stress more that one of the best reasons to learn Latin is to read classic, formative Western literature in the original!) Thank you.
Who can speak Latin as musically as an Italian? Bravo. I am looking for a way to exercise my love for Spencerian cursive handwriting. I think I may have found it here.
So I'm a big fan of Darksouls games and its music often has Latin verses in it. At first I only regarded it as ambiance for the game but once I read some translations of those verses, it completely changed the experince for me. Latin is such a beautiful language and I agree with understanding English in a way you never did before once you begin understanding Latin. Since English is my second language, it's even more mind-blowing for me. Thank you for the book suggestion, I'll definitly be checking it out. ^^
Your channel is wonderful! I m a Romanian speaker and I m learning Castilian and Portuguese and now I m looking for learning Catalan, but one day I thought about latin and I found your channel. Your channel is wonderful and you inspired me to learn Latin. Mulțumesc mult pentru efortul pe care îl faci!
Having taken 5 years of Latin, it was much easier for me to learn Spanish. However, it's also helped me learn languages that have no relation whatsoever, like Tibetan! Primarily because it helped me learn how to learn complex grammatical concepts like noun cases.
My middle/high school required at least 4 years of Latin (many students went on to Latin 7, even 8) and I actually really liked it. The grammar specifically. Vocabulary is mostly just a matter of looking stuff up, but parsing the grammar of a Latin sentence is super fun. I really like logical stuff like math and programming, so that's probably why I like Latin. Past Latin 4, at least at my school, it was mostly just translating actual Latin and not so much learning new grammar, so I took two years of the ancient Greek classes my school had just started, and those were similarly pretty fun. In some ways ancient Greek is harder than Latin, but also easier. For instance, Greek verbs have *six* principal parts and an extra voice called the middle which makes it harder, but something that makes it heaps easier is that it has no ablative case, and the uses of the ablative case in Latin are actually split up between the genitive and dative in Greek in an intuitive way and it's pretty nice
@@friedkeenan That's really cool. I've never touched Greek in my life- it's all Greek to me! Once I got up to Latin 5 we concentrated on translating the Aeneid, that's when the real work begins. But I think other than obscure texts from the medieval ages, all of the Roman stuff has been translated before, which is not very appealing to me. Classical Tibetan is also strangely similar to Latin in certain ways- there are noun/verb case endings/markers such as the ablative, genitive, locative, etc. There is even at least one borrowing from Latin- the Gesar of Ling epic, Tibet's national epic poem, is about an ancient king named Gesar. Scholars have noted how Gesar may be a borrowed word from Latin- Caesar! Very distant relationship but still interesting. But with Tibetan, there's still work to be done, untranslated texts, more rewarding from a scholarly perspective IMHO.
Thank You so Much! Thanks to you I was able to fall in love again with the Latin language. Thanks to you I got to discover this fantastic book (Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata)! Merci beaucoup!
I have studied Modern and Classical Arabic, and it was especially the Classical Arabic that amazed me for the richness of the language. I believe the "old" languages, being Classical Arabic and Latin, are not just a prototype for modern languages, but they are even deeper and more elegant than our modern languages. So now I have just recently begun looking into the Latin language and I am amazed how much I recognise in Latin with my knowledge of Arabic. To be honest, I only know the same in depthness in Japanese if looking at modern languages. I am fluent in Fusha Arabic, I have full conversations in it, so the only thing holding me back from learning Latin was my idea that the language is "dead" and nobody speaks it. I do not want to learn Latin to boast, nor to think of how to translate complicated old texts. I want to SPEAK Latin. So I am very enthousiastic knowing that more and more people are having the same urge! Thank you!
I really am falling down a "rabbit hole" as you say. I recently watched the matrix and somehow another book lead me here. This is like an intersection of ideas. You do make it sound fascinating!
Really amazing. I'm an old European man, not native English speaker, and I found your videos by chance. At first, to be honest, I though you were speaking a kind of "Hollywood" Latin but progressively I realized that you were knowing what you were talking about so I started listening to you carefully and I learned a lot, thank you. Coming back to this video I understand the target is English speaking people: why not but even then I don't fully understand the contribution of Latin at speaking English. As an old man speaking a Romance language, I had to go through Latin courses when I was young and, being really honest, I don't see how this has helped me in anything. I have no regret, it was nice on a cultural point of view but that's it. I'm stunned when you say that you were able to read and write Latin in 3 months: I have been learning it for 4 years and I was not able to read it without a huge dictionary and without avoiding many mistranslations! As for writing it was really even harder and challenging, so the gap appears gigantic, doesn't it? In my view all what I remember is a grammatical and useless nightmare. Icing on the cake: I learned some Spanish as well and I have to admit that I was not very successful although it was supposed to be a cousin language and at the time I was speaking 2 Romance languages (one from my mother)... Latin didn't help me in anyway. In parallel I was learning English and it was OK since it was fun, pleasant and there was almost no grammar compared to Romance languages, not mentioning Latin. At last I claim to speak and write correctly my own language, independently of learning Latin. Anyway, I understand you are American so I sincerely congratulate you for promoting the study of foreign languages, which is not a popular sport in the anglo-saxon world, to say the least ... but I do consider that learning Latin, and especially speaking it, is a cultural hobby, (very) interesting but just a hobby. To tone down the rhetoric, I have to state that I have a scientific background, not literary, so that I might not be able to catch the subtle meaning of your words. Be sure I had no intention to criticize you in any way, it was just showing astonishment. Best regards
I salute you bro. You inspire me. All you say is so true! When i discovered the true meaning of "virtutis," my life changed on a profound level. Because of you i found the courage to learn both Classical Latin and modern Greek.
I first saw you in Ecolinguist. I enjoyed your talks with Gustavo, Linda and Isidor. I only hear Latin from priests so I thought you're a priest. I never thought Latin can sound so cool and classy at the same time. My husband is Brazilian and I'm trying to study Portuguese. I had as a language elective in college Spanish 1 &2. Philippines being colony of Spain for 333 years and America for some years as well. I love studying Romance languages.
Thanks so much, Janice! I also love Portuguese. If you want to learn Latin, this playlist on my other channel is the way: ua-cam.com/play/PLU1WuLg45SiyrXahjvFahDuA060P487pV.html
I ordered the lingua latina books after watching one of your videos and ordered them soon after. I am only three or four stories in because I find myself reading them over and over again untill I fully grasp the context of each story in it's totality. I also have my six children learning latin the same way, the three that aren't yet reading watch the lingua latina videos on your channel. What you say is true, I would say learning latin is like linguistic Jiu-Jitsu. Just as Jiu-Jitsu gives you what it takes to be formidable against any opponent of any discipline, latin gives you the keys to unlocking nearly any modern European language. A few days after buying lingua latina and only having read two of the stories I found myself looking for a book with a French description and I understood enough of the text to pull the context out of the words I didn't understand.
Just discovered your videos. I recently started my journey learning Latin, and this and your Latin culture video have been fueling the fire :) Thanks a lot, and I look forward to watching the rest of your videos!
@@polyMATHY_Luke but you know what brings it back to pieces, restores it and makes it great again? Your response, your smile and videos and your playing along with my so "shock at seeing speaking English instead of Latin". Multás Grátiás
Impressive! I’m glad to have found you channel and to see that you’re continuing the great legacy of the Latin language. Wonderful to hear you, or anyone, speak it. Keep up the work!
Your seemingly infinite knowledge of the Latin language, really inspires me and it adds along to my existing incentive to want to learn. I had a severe intracerebral brain hemorrhage TBI in car wreck last fall, I don't remember it, and I face some mental health issues and physical ailments. I am 33, and my entire life, I am an artist, lover of literature, I love to write, and for some reason recently, I suddenly wanted to learn Latin! I have been watching your videos on and off when I can, taking notes, and speaking out loud. It is strange how my mind works, with some thing new--I can pronunciate Latin so easily and fluently, yet with English it is difficult at times talking with people in everyday life. The TBI is in my left frontal lobe. Luckily my right hemisphere was spared. :) Thank you for all of your videos and lessons, they are very helpful.
@polýMATHY yes, they are and you're very 🙏 welcome. A few weeks ago, I wrote a poem, then changed it many times due to grammar and all. I still have much to learn; I'm quite the beginner. After some time I finally translated my poem from English to Latin, here it is: In ignem Eicere dolorem Amplecti tenebris Vide astra regnan!
My native language is Portuguese. At least the Brazilian dialect. For me it is a pleasure to know about the roots of my language by means of Latin studying. Congratulations for polýMATHY channel! Wait, polýMATHY word comes from Greek... :P
This video was very encouraging and exactly what I needed to hear. My sisters had all studied Latin in senior school, however, I wasn’t given the option because my Maths was at a low level which meant I couldn’t take Latin. I still feel a piece of my education missing for not studying Latin so I will start with your book recommendations. All the textbooks and tests my sisters had made it seem impossible to self study. So glad to see that it is doable out of school!
Thank yoouuu! Found the video where you spoke with Linda, Gustavo and the mexican whose name I forgot 🤣 and I wondered how you learned so well. The book is at a good price given how important learning Latin is. I wish they taught me in school. I want to learn it because I am browsing ancient texts about alchemy and medicine and I need to understand them. Gracias y saludos desde el norte de México :)
I've started learning Latin at your behest. Bought the book "Familia Romana" by Hans H.Órberg. It's an amazing experience to be reading this book, understanding it as you go, and picking up the Latin language on the way.
Hi, you are allrightyright! I had this idea for years: presenting Orbergs LINGUA LATINA PE SE ILLUSTRATA - now, I got to know that YOU already make that! Congratulations!
As a healthcare provider, if you want to understand your doctor (and law!) Latin comes in handy! I took Latin both in highschool and in college- it's awesome!
My native is not English . i speak 3 languages fluently , and 2 more language moderately ! but i understand 5 language totally ! Latin is the mother of many European languages , and my language is from Sanskrit , so for me it is bit different and all those pronunciations. but am trying .English is my second language . i am at infant stage of learning Latin . your video is informative . thank u very much :)
Salve, Luci! I'm currently teaching myself Latin with Lingua Latina and my main goal (mostly at least) is to be able to read Literature in Latin. Should I keep up on this goal or do I need to put effort just like you did into being a fluent speaker of the language?
@@polyMATHY_Luke Yes! I've been using your playlist with each chapter I read, they've been really useful in making me work the pronunciation. And hey, I've got quite a lot of questions about LLPSI, do you mind answering me some of them?
Oh boy, I think you're convincing me to learn Latin, at least a little. Have you ever considered making videos of yourself reading the lessons from Lingua Latina aloud? I'm very much an audio learner. I usually start a language with Pimsleur, which is purely audio. As a musician, the sounds of a language go into my head much faster and deeper than anything I read. If the book existed in audio form, I'd have a 100% better chance of cracking it. Edit: I just found your playlist! I'm starting immediately. Thank you so much!
"I see people using words in funny ways" Same 😂 I don't even speak Latin, but I wonder if it would help me or make me instead more frustrated with English-speakers...
if I may add, in my opinion the reason why it is very useful to learn Latin is its use of declensions and cases instead of articles, it may seem small but having this type of system, Latin does not respond to a rigorous syntax , that is, the order of the words inside a sentence is not very important, if I say "puella amat magistram", "magistram amat puella" or "puella magistram amat" these three sentences all have the same meaning or "the girl loves the teacher". This thing is very useful because it helps our brain in reasoning, when we think in languages like English (in my case before learning Latin I thought in Italian) we have the concepts in mind and we have to make a lot of effort to order them and give a sense to what we are thinking, in Latin you don't need to make this effort, you throw the concepts there within the sentence in the exact order in which you think them and the sentence maintains a complete sense.
Salvete! I’m going to undertake the path to learn Latin! I am inspired by the Spanish and French speakers who keep trying to correct me on my way of speaking their languages. I’m going to learn Latin to tell them that they are speaking Latin wrong lol 😂 jk. I really want to read the ancient literature of Latin and help my English grammar and vocabulary. I think it will build my mental discipline as well. Thank you for all this content!
im a traditional latin mass catholic, learning prayers in latin and the mass responses, plus being a mmassiv ehitory nerd has pushed me towards learning latin, gonna have to take the plunge, I'm sicilian and since learning a few words I realized how much latin there is in our language
I was watching your videos out of pure interest in languages and linguistics, but now i got into a uni (Fundamental and Applied Linguistics bachelor) and there's Latin as a subject so now your videos are not only interesting, but actually super useful for me lol Very happy about that, gonna watch Scorpio Martianus content for that immersion in the language x)
Love your videos. I took two years of Latin in high school and at the beginning of my second year I asked our magister when do we learn to speak it and he laughed at me and said “Latin is a dead language, nobody speaks it anymore”. This was in 1981. Thank you for bringing it back alive. I could listen to you speak it for hours. I’m relearning it now in my old age. Btw how do we get the answers to the pensvm in Lingva Latina? I’ve just started but could not locate the answers in the back of the book.
If used with a careful definition, “Vulgar Latin” can be used. But most people are careless and don’t know how it has been abused so it’s better discarded
Excellent Luke. I found out about you just this week through ScorpioMartianu's UA-cam channel. I speak fluent Spanish and Portuguese and enough Italian to survive in Italy for a while. As a student of history (esp the Julius Caesar period) I always wanted to understand some Latin and learn pronunciation. I could read maybe 15% through my knowledge of Spanish. Just found this channel too. Subscribed to both. Bought Lingua Latina for Kindle. Had to return it as it is badly formatted and made unreadable (more like a PDF where you can't resize). Will get the printed book instead.
I'm a Portuguese speaker and I want to study Latin and I hope to be prepared to understand the Cicero's speech. Currently I'm learning French and English and Latin can help me in the process.
Hear, hear! Totally agree that learning the languages that contributed to the development of the English language is of inestimable value in appreciating the riches of the English language, as well as understanding how this language got to be the way it is today. Once one has learned, say, French, German, Latin and Greek, one will no longer be asking why English spelling is the way it is. The spelling will no longer seem arbitrary, because it will be clear that there are specific historical reasons that it is is the way it is. Furthermore, one will be able to discern which words are of which origin, know the different sets of spelling rules that apply to words of various origins, and from there, figure out which set of pronunciation and spelling rules is applicable in the given situation. I personally have a project in the works to learn not only those languages, but also the rest of the languages that contributed to the development of the English language, so: Old Norse, Scots Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Welsh, Dutch, Old English and Middle English. And Icelandic, because it's basically the modern version of Old Norse, which has undergone so astoundingly little change in the past over 1000 years that if someone speaks Old Norse to a modern Icelander, they will be able to understand it with little difficulty.
I figured out the grammar and how to say words. Now I just started translating. I've been just going on google and finding random latin sentences and figuring out how to translate them.
Haha I really should get my lazy ass to work then! I did a few chapters from Lingua Latina per se illustrata years ago and now about a month ago I though I really shouldn't have abandon it so I wanted to go back but turns out I forgot almost everything I ever knew so now I'm going through it again from the beginning. A month in and I'm nowhere near 1/3rd of it though! You got me really motivated!
I've been dabbling in Latin on and off for a year and I've noticed a spike in fluency with Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. Now I've gotten more serious with Latin so I can finally conquer the Roman languages and unlock the other half of the English language.
I'm very happy to have found Your channel! Can You recommend me books like "Lingua latina per se"....etc... on ancient greek/koine greek/biblical greek? It would be awsome to talk with You sometime in latin.
I’ve studied French and German. Currently studying Swedish. Once I’m happy with my Swedish I’ll move on to Portuguese and then I think I want to learn either Latin or Russian. I’m fascinated with language as a hobby and maybe someday for work and travel.
I loved learning Latin at school. I then went to a french university so can parler la lingo comme un indigene. And then I went to Italy without a word. By a hybrid of 20th century french and school boy Latin, I got by completely. Latin is a dead language As dead as dead can be It killed off all the Romans And now it's killing me (That's me in 1975) Ps keep up the good work Luke, your videos are always super interesting.
Hi Luke, a wonderfull experience and advices. I would want to know in more depth how you achieved to be fluent in only three months. How much chapters or lessons did you read every day, etc. Thanks in advance! P. S.: Your channels are great and I enjoy every content in them, specially the Lingua Latina audio recordings along with the text itself. Also your podcast is great. Thank you so much by your efforts and work, indeed is a labor of love and passion what you do. I will be a Patreon for sure :)
Cool stuff. I will have to get that book. I have, for many years, had an old Latin textbook from the 1960‘s, but have not been interested in learning it until now. Glad I found your channel. Cheers!
Wild that I just found this. Just found out about these books tonight on a whim. I moved to Kentucky 5 months ago and am now only an hour from Lexington. Also have the Spencerian books. Love when things like this happen.
“What’s that?” he replied to a question from Olney that broke in upon his train of thought. “I was saying that I hoped you wouldn’t be fool enough to tackle Latin.” “But Latin is more than culture,” Ruth broke in. “It is equipment.” “Well, are you going to tackle it?” Olney persisted. Martin was sore beset. He could see that Ruth was hanging eagerly upon his answer. “I am afraid I won’t have time,” he said finally. “I’d like to, but I won’t have time.” “You see, Martin’s not seeking culture,” Olney exulted. “He’s trying to get somewhere, to do something.” “Oh, but it’s mental training. It’s mind discipline. It’s what makes disciplined minds.” Ruth looked expectantly at Martin, as if waiting for him to change his judgment. “You know, the foot-ball players have to train before the big game. And that is what Latin does for the thinker. It trains.” “Rot and bosh! That’s what they told us when we were kids. But there is one thing they didn’t tell us then. They let us find it out for ourselves afterwards.” Olney paused for effect, then added, “And what they didn’t tell us was that every gentleman should have studied Latin, but that no gentleman should know Latin.” “Now that’s unfair,” Ruth cried. “I knew you were turning the conversation just in order to get off something.” “It’s clever all right,” was the retort, “but it’s fair, too. The only men who know their Latin are the apothecaries, the lawyers, and the Latin professors.
Well, i'm a portuguese native speaker, and additionally i speak a bit of spanish too, i find amusing the common words between romance languages i surely thought about learning Latin but i just don't know where to start neither how to pratice since all native speakers are dead, and mostly i try to consume content from native speakers when learning a new language so i can get used to the language and sound closer to what a native sounds.
Not only would you be able to read 99% of old literature, you’d also probably feel special as, even to this day, the language carries a good amount of prestige.
I admire Desiderius Erasmus and hope to read his original works. In stark contrast, I am also interested in Anglish, in which only Anglo-Saxon words are used. This contrast further emphasizes how much English has borrowed from other languages. In the current global world, other languages are also borrowing from English as well.
Wait, you’re living in Lexington,Kentucky? I live Louisville,Kentucky and have a passing interest in learning Latin. I found your channel about the Barbarians TV series and enjoyed your videos. Keep up the good work!
@@CCAA2233 An i+1 *sentence* is basically a sentence where you understand everything except one word or point about it. So you can grasp the meaning of the word intuitively. The i+1 structure is scientifically proven to be the best way to learn language. So an "i+1 book" would be a book that's structured in this way. So that when you read, each sentence only has 1 thing you're missing, that you can intuitively grasp and pick up on. Theoretically this allows for you to smoothly read through the book, even with no experience. Lingua Latina Per se Illustrata does this for Latin. You can pick up the book not knowing latin, and despite it being entirely in latin, you can read through it just fine. For Japanese there's a site drdru.github.io/ which does this concept as well. Albeit it expects you to already know the writing system (hiragana and katakana) before starting, similar to how lingua latina requires you to know the latin alphabet. But as an example: 🐒 猿 (Sa ru) 🍌 バナナ (Ba na na) 🍌🐒 猿はバナナを食べる (saru wa banana o taberu) If you understood that last sentence, you can get how this concept works. As you read through the pages, you understand more and more, and the sentences get more complex and intricate, while allowing you, a complete beginner, to still understand what's being said. By the end of the first section in the japanese one you're reading stuff like 森の中にキムとチャックだ｡ キムはチャックが 大好き｡ オオカミがいる ！チャックは[ギャー！ 怖い！]と言う｡キムは[怖くない｡ 私は強い！]と言う｡ キムとチャックが結婚する｡ キムは妊娠する｡ 5人の赤ちゃんがいる｡ This i+1 concept mostly has taken off in Japanese learning via a method called "AJATT" (All Japanese All The Time) where the focus is i+1 content, and constant immersion (ideally 24/7 japanese exposure, and ideally i+1 content). The problem is that most native materials aren't i+1, and that most beginner content isn't immersive, native-like, nor i+1. So it's a bit tricky to find. It turns out that latin learners have these absolutely lovely books that moves you from beginner, to able to read full books. Japanese unfortunately still lacks that. Look up Stephen Krashen. There was a site written in english, about learning english, but I can't seem to find the link. But those guys did the same sort of method.
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How can I get the LINGVA LATINA book?
I'm curious, as an Italian speaker, how long did it take you to get to a decent level of Latin with the Lingua Latina books?
3 months, which is how long I did vol1
@@polyMATHY_Luke how many volumes are there?
@@yuto2497 Two if I'm not mistaken : Familia Romana & Roma Aeterna
Knowing Latin will always have this "prestige" feel.
I think we have to democratise Latin as much as possible and get it out there as much as possible, to try to rid it of its elitist connotations. Latin was for everyone, from the plebeians to the patricians and everyone in between. omnes discere loqui linguam Latinam possunt!
@Mr. Rich B.O.B - he's wrong
@@gah-kaileung7075 The Internet has already achieved that, to some extent. You can easily find tons of resources for free if you take the time too look. Anyone with an internet connection and some spare time can learn latin
@@mushypeasplease8872 Luke Smith is never wrong
@@gah-kaileung7075 I agree though I'll say, from the "dark side," that it can feel quite nice to be prestigious like that.
Studying Latin for 3 years in high school did not give me fluency in the language itself, but it did give me an extraordinary facility for learning Romance langs. I now speak Spanish natively and French. almost so.
If you had invested the time spent learning Latin at the beginning into studying Spanish and French (followed by the same amount of time you subsequently studied those languages) do you think your Spanish/French would be better than it is now?
I’m interested in the Latin debate, but this particular argument has always seemed short-sighted to me. I speak both Spanish and French, but I can’t understand why I would start with Latin and not simply start with my target language.
@@RadicalPersonalFinance It's all about the substrate of knowledge granted and the communication opportunities afforded.
By learning Latin first, even to a basic degree, you expand not only your English vocabulary, but you also get an understanding of grammatical concepts that are found in major languages across the world. It makes jumping into your target language a much more comfortable and accelerated process- though in my experience, the reverse can be true as well; I am a fluent speaker of French, and picked up conversational Latin in a matter of hours thanks to that.
Knowing Latin will help you bridge gaps between other Romance languages, and make it even easier to learn them on a conversational level if you choose to do so in the future.
It's all about how far you want to go in the pursuit of language. Best of luck.
@@guymcaulay8996 `That happens with romance languages anyways, it's not because latin is the root.
knowing french makes spanish easy, for example, so yeah, if instead of latin you went with italian, french and spanish, it would have been just as easy after the first language.
French would've given you a far greater advantage with the english vocabulary, compared to latin.
Learning latin is useful if you want to read latin.
@@StoufSto latin is also useful cuz it has a complex structure and training your brain translating it is extremely helpful for japanese for example (as he said). Being an Italian native and a latin learner I can ensure you that latin is great to learn german.
fun fact: Italians understand pretty well spanish but spanish people have more difficulty to understand italian.
@@int_frabitnight8110 Lo so che serve. Sono italo-canadese, e parlo italiano, francese e inglese. Ho imparato lo spagnole tanto facilmente!
That said, my point was not that latin isn't useful, but more that knowing latin is just as useful to understand romance languages as knowing another romance language already would be, so maybe just learn a few romance language if that was your goal to begin with. No need to go through latin first!
Thank you so much for doing this. I'm considering adding Latin to our school curriculum and have begun researching resources. Very helpful.
That's great! Let me know if you have any questions. If you want to see spoken Latin in action, please check out my other channel ScorpioMartianus :-) ua-cam.com/video/BbcRm5EbGxg/v-deo.html
They removed Latin n Ancient Greek from the curriculum to dumb down the masses (shipple). They don’t want too many smart people around.
@@anon2030 yes, of course, everything is definitely based on conspiracy theories, not pragmatic reasons (that may be wrong, but still were arrived at through deliberate discussion without bad faith reasoning).
Of course, the lizardmen are out to get us.
@@anon2030
You act as if Latin or Ancient Greek suddenly grant their students some sort of dangerous power.
@@williams.5952 Oh no! He learned Latin, he is going to be inmortal and set our doom!!!!
Wait, you mean you speak English?
Occasionally. 😂
I have no idea of what you are talking about, all I hear is him speaking in Latin.
@@livedandletdie
Absolutely! A very modern form of it.
I'm a 50 year old man who had Latin in high school a LONG time ago and your ability to speak it and have so much enthusiasm for Latin prompted me to buy both the Lingua Latina books and I'm off to a great start. I still remember quite a lot from high school, surprisingly, but now I want to speak it too!!
Молодец! 😃 Я очень рад что тебе понравилось. Thanks for the comment! Keep up the great work.
@@polyMATHY_Luke Do you speak Russian? I'm learning Russian. A fantastic language (probably harder to learn than Latin for me, my mother tongue being French). I'm trying to read books in Russian now, I wish there was an equivalent of Lingua Latina per se illustrata in Russian! (Русский язык, проиллюстрированный сам по себе!). Just like Rural Squirrel I had Latin in high school, I loved it and still remember quite a lot, now you make me feel like learning it anew, as a living language! In fact I just ordered Lingua Latina... And I'd like to find Latin conversation partners (I live in France, in Montpellier).
When someone shares how they did it, that's gold. Thank you Luke.
Thanks! 😃
Latin was my favorite subject in college, and it greatly expanded my vocabulary. However, when I became a lawyer and started training to be a trial lawyer the instructors told us not to use Latinized words because it could sound pompous to the jury and turn them against you. Instead we were taught to speak Anglo-Saxon which is what we Americans generally speak. Even though 70% of our vocabulary is Latin, 70% of our spoken language is Anglo-Saxon. In fact the top 100 spoken words are Anglo-Saxon.
That is very interesting. I am trying to teach myself Latin for a multitude of reasons but one of them is to exmand my English vocaublary!
@@tjs.5044 learning Latin will greatly expand your vocabulary. 70% of English vocabulary is based on Latin.
@@tomoth77 No? It’s not? Only 25% of English vocabulary is from or based on Latin, another 25% is from older forms of French thanks to the Norman’s. That’s only about half of the vocabulary being romance based and only a quarter of that is directly from Latin. If it was 70% as you say, English would be a Romance language, not a Germanic one. Further more, Anglo-Saxon was an actual language, one that is no longer spoken though it’s direct descendent (English) is.
Internet rabbit hole for me. When I was in Catholic grade school in the 1960's and the good nuns were preparing us for high school, Sister Matthias said something along the lines of, "and of course you will take Latin." And I did, but I did not understand what I was trying to accomplish. I looked at Latin as a "substitution cipher" where one just got out a dictionary, replaced the Latin words with the English words, and one was done.
In college, I took a Greek class, and the teacher mentioned a guy he had met in college named Henry Parker. The story was that this person had been abandoned as an infant at a monastery and raised by a German-speaking monk who could communicate with his fellow monks only in Latin, so Mr. Parker became in effect a native speaker of Latin. In college he would show off his skill by playing the scouting films from the college football team and rendering the play-by-play in Latin. Or so the legend goes.
In retirement now in 2021 I am going through two books I bought some decades ago that look like an earlier version of LLPSI. The first pages look the same, the author is the same, but the two-volume set is called "Lingua Latina Secundum Naturae Rationem Explicata." Concurrently, I am investigating how much Latin vocabulary I might have but not know, by going through the English-to-Latin section of my Latin-English dictionary and writing down every word that is almost exactly the same except for some standard suffix changes, like "applaud" equals "applaudo."
I have heard of Professor Tunberg's summer camp and would love to go, but that might not come to pass. I have discovered the weekly Latin Zoom meetings but am not yet capable of participating. For now I will plod along through my books and the internet rabbit holes I keep finding.
You are doing a great service to people with all your work on Latin and Greek! (I was a little surprised that you didn't stress more that one of the best reasons to learn Latin is to read classic, formative Western literature in the original!) Thank you.
Absolutely! I stress this more today.
@@polyMATHY_Luke That's great
Who can speak Latin as musically as an Italian? Bravo. I am looking for a way to exercise my love for Spencerian cursive handwriting. I think I may have found it here.
I'm very glad, Bubba Rand! Thanks for your support. I hope my little videos will continue to hold your interest!
Eu falo português (especificamente do Brasil) e penso na possibilidade de começar a aprendê-lo. É lindo de ouvir
So I'm a big fan of Darksouls games and its music often has Latin verses in it. At first I only regarded it as ambiance for the game but once I read some translations of those verses, it completely changed the experince for me.
Latin is such a beautiful language and I agree with understanding English in a way you never did before once you begin understanding Latin. Since English is my second language, it's even more mind-blowing for me.
Thank you for the book suggestion, I'll definitly be checking it out. ^^
Do u like Dark Souls? Nice
Average Japanese fan vs chad Latin enjoyer (this is a joke no hate I’m also a dark souls fan)
Ds3 main menu soundtrack
Your channel is wonderful! I m a Romanian speaker and I m learning Castilian and Portuguese and now I m looking for learning Catalan, but one day I thought about latin and I found your channel. Your channel is wonderful and you inspired me to learn Latin.
Mulțumesc mult pentru efortul pe care îl faci!
Having taken 5 years of Latin, it was much easier for me to learn Spanish. However, it's also helped me learn languages that have no relation whatsoever, like Tibetan! Primarily because it helped me learn how to learn complex grammatical concepts like noun cases.
My middle/high school required at least 4 years of Latin (many students went on to Latin 7, even 8) and I actually really liked it. The grammar specifically. Vocabulary is mostly just a matter of looking stuff up, but parsing the grammar of a Latin sentence is super fun. I really like logical stuff like math and programming, so that's probably why I like Latin. Past Latin 4, at least at my school, it was mostly just translating actual Latin and not so much learning new grammar, so I took two years of the ancient Greek classes my school had just started, and those were similarly pretty fun. In some ways ancient Greek is harder than Latin, but also easier. For instance, Greek verbs have *six* principal parts and an extra voice called the middle which makes it harder, but something that makes it heaps easier is that it has no ablative case, and the uses of the ablative case in Latin are actually split up between the genitive and dative in Greek in an intuitive way and it's pretty nice
@@friedkeenan That's really cool. I've never touched Greek in my life- it's all Greek to me! Once I got up to Latin 5 we concentrated on translating the Aeneid, that's when the real work begins. But I think other than obscure texts from the medieval ages, all of the Roman stuff has been translated before, which is not very appealing to me. Classical Tibetan is also strangely similar to Latin in certain ways- there are noun/verb case endings/markers such as the ablative, genitive, locative, etc. There is even at least one borrowing from Latin- the Gesar of Ling epic, Tibet's national epic poem, is about an ancient king named Gesar. Scholars have noted how Gesar may be a borrowed word from Latin- Caesar! Very distant relationship but still interesting. But with Tibetan, there's still work to be done, untranslated texts, more rewarding from a scholarly perspective IMHO.
Thank You so Much! Thanks to you I was able to fall in love again with the Latin language. Thanks to you I got to discover this fantastic book (Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata)! Merci beaucoup!
De rien! 😊
I have studied Modern and Classical Arabic, and it was especially the Classical Arabic that amazed me for the richness of the language. I believe the "old" languages, being Classical Arabic and Latin, are not just a prototype for modern languages, but they are even deeper and more elegant than our modern languages. So now I have just recently begun looking into the Latin language and I am amazed how much I recognise in Latin with my knowledge of Arabic. To be honest, I only know the same in depthness in Japanese if looking at modern languages.
I am fluent in Fusha Arabic, I have full conversations in it, so the only thing holding me back from learning Latin was my idea that the language is "dead" and nobody speaks it. I do not want to learn Latin to boast, nor to think of how to translate complicated old texts. I want to SPEAK Latin. So I am very enthousiastic knowing that more and more people are having the same urge!
Thank you!
I really am falling down a "rabbit hole" as you say. I recently watched the matrix and somehow another book lead me here. This is like an intersection of ideas. You do make it sound fascinating!
Thanks so much! You’ll find a ton of videos here and on my other channel ScorpioMartianus
I see real passion here.
LATIN, yes. I really appreciate your channels, thank you.
One reason he left out, if you end up in the forest like Dante, you'll be able to have a quick chat with Cicerus
Cicero*
It was Virgilius, wasn't it?
@@rdyt0 it was but our friend got confused
@@a_random_orthodox_Christian but Cicero was among the Roman pre-Christen heathens in the castle before the two began descending into hell.
@@rdyt0 but in the divine comedy dante meets with Virgil first not Cicero
What a good idea! Hand-copying the whole book to force yourself to learn it!
Really amazing.
I'm an old European man, not native English speaker, and I found your videos by chance. At first, to be honest, I though you were speaking a kind of "Hollywood" Latin but progressively I realized that you were knowing what you were talking about so I started listening to you carefully and I learned a lot, thank you.
Coming back to this video I understand the target is English speaking people: why not but even then I don't fully understand the contribution of Latin at speaking English.
As an old man speaking a Romance language, I had to go through Latin courses when I was young and, being really honest, I don't see how this has helped me in anything. I have no regret, it was nice on a cultural point of view but that's it.
I'm stunned when you say that you were able to read and write Latin in 3 months: I have been learning it for 4 years and I was not able to read it without a huge dictionary and without avoiding many mistranslations! As for writing it was really even harder and challenging, so the gap appears gigantic, doesn't it? In my view all what I remember is a grammatical and useless nightmare.
Icing on the cake: I learned some Spanish as well and I have to admit that I was not very successful although it was supposed to be a cousin language and at the time I was speaking 2 Romance languages (one from my mother)... Latin didn't help me in anyway. In parallel I was learning English and it was OK since it was fun, pleasant and there was almost no grammar compared to Romance languages, not mentioning Latin. At last I claim to speak and write correctly my own language, independently of learning Latin.
Anyway, I understand you are American so I sincerely congratulate you for promoting the study of foreign languages, which is not a popular sport in the anglo-saxon world, to say the least ... but I do consider that learning Latin, and especially speaking it, is a cultural hobby, (very) interesting but just a hobby.
To tone down the rhetoric, I have to state that I have a scientific background, not literary, so that I might not be able to catch the subtle meaning of your words. Be sure I had no intention to criticize you in any way, it was just showing astonishment.
Best regards
Same with me
I salute you bro. You inspire me. All you say is so true! When i discovered the true meaning of "virtutis," my life changed on a profound level. Because of you i found the courage to learn both Classical Latin and modern Greek.
That’s great! Thanks for the kind words
Being able to speak a single sentence in Latin is already a huge flex
I first saw you in Ecolinguist. I enjoyed your talks with Gustavo, Linda and Isidor. I only hear Latin from priests so I thought you're a priest. I never thought Latin can sound so cool and classy at the same time. My husband is Brazilian and I'm trying to study Portuguese. I had as a language elective in college Spanish 1 &2. Philippines being colony of Spain for 333 years and America for some years as well. I love studying Romance languages.
Thanks so much, Janice! I also love Portuguese. If you want to learn Latin, this playlist on my other channel is the way: ua-cam.com/play/PLU1WuLg45SiyrXahjvFahDuA060P487pV.html
I ordered the lingua latina books after watching one of your videos and ordered them soon after.
I am only three or four stories in because I find myself reading them over and over again untill I fully grasp the context of each story in it's totality.
I also have my six children learning latin the same way, the three that aren't yet reading watch the lingua latina videos on your channel.
What you say is true, I would say learning latin is like linguistic Jiu-Jitsu. Just as Jiu-Jitsu gives you what it takes to be formidable against any opponent of any discipline, latin gives you the keys to unlocking nearly any modern European language.
A few days after buying lingua latina and only having read two of the stories I found myself looking for a book with a French description and I understood enough of the text to pull the context out of the words I didn't understand.
Just discovered your videos. I recently started my journey learning Latin, and this and your Latin culture video have been fueling the fire :)
Thanks a lot, and I look forward to watching the rest of your videos!
I think this has to be the best explanation as to why one should learn Latin.
Me when I saw Luke speaking English instead of Latin
😳😳😳😳😳😳 My world has been shattered
Haha oh no!
@@polyMATHY_Luke but you know what brings it back to pieces, restores it and makes it great again?
Your response, your smile and videos and your playing along with my so "shock at seeing speaking English instead of Latin".
Multás Grátiás
i love knowing that it's the book we're using in high school
That’s great!!
For the educated Medievals, Latin and Ancient Greek was learned primarily to read the Great Books in their original language.
I deeply respect you, Luke; I cannot imagine having the assurance to direct an indiscriminate group of people to learn the language of my ancestors.
Impressive! I’m glad to have found you channel and to see that you’re continuing the great legacy of the Latin language. Wonderful to hear you, or anyone, speak it. Keep up the work!
What an extremely charismatic and inspiring chap and what good advice. Thank you very much.
Very kind
Your seemingly infinite knowledge of the Latin language, really inspires me and it adds along to my existing incentive to want to learn. I had a severe intracerebral brain hemorrhage TBI in car wreck last fall, I don't remember it, and I face some mental health issues and physical ailments. I am 33, and my entire life, I am an artist, lover of literature, I love to write, and for some reason recently, I suddenly wanted to learn Latin! I have been watching your videos on and off when I can, taking notes, and speaking out loud. It is strange how my mind works, with some thing new--I can pronunciate Latin so easily and fluently, yet with English it is difficult at times talking with people in everyday life. The TBI is in my left frontal lobe. Luckily my right hemisphere was spared. :) Thank you for all of your videos and lessons, they are very helpful.
I’m really flattered! I hope my videos are of some help
@polýMATHY yes, they are and you're very 🙏 welcome. A few weeks ago, I wrote a poem, then changed it many times due to grammar and all. I still have much to learn; I'm quite the beginner. After some time I finally translated my poem from English to Latin, here it is:
In ignem
Eicere dolorem
Amplecti tenebris
Vide astra regnan!
My native language is Portuguese. At least the Brazilian dialect. For me it is a pleasure to know about the roots of my language by means of Latin studying. Congratulations for polýMATHY channel! Wait, polýMATHY word comes from Greek... :P
This video was very encouraging and exactly what I needed to hear. My sisters had all studied Latin in senior school, however, I wasn’t given the option because my Maths was at a low level which meant I couldn’t take Latin. I still feel a piece of my education missing for not studying Latin so I will start with your book recommendations. All the textbooks and tests my sisters had made it seem impossible to self study. So glad to see that it is doable out of school!
Thank yoouuu! Found the video where you spoke with Linda, Gustavo and the mexican whose name I forgot 🤣 and I wondered how you learned so well. The book is at a good price given how important learning Latin is. I wish they taught me in school. I want to learn it because I am browsing ancient texts about alchemy and medicine and I need to understand them.
Gracias y saludos desde el norte de México :)
Gracias a ti 😀
Also in the matrix they include the Latin phrase "know thyself"
Got some Latin books again. This is gonna be fun to revisit
I've started learning Latin at your behest. Bought the book "Familia Romana" by Hans H.Órberg. It's an amazing experience to be reading this book, understanding it as you go, and picking up the Latin language on the way.
It's really remarkable! See my playlist for it: ua-cam.com/play/PLU1WuLg45SiyrXahjvFahDuA060P487pV.html
@@polyMATHY_Luke Yes. It was you I got the idea from about this book from your videos.
May I ask how you are finding it? I decided to go the Wheelocks Latin route
Hi, you are allrightyright! I had this idea for years: presenting Orbergs LINGUA LATINA PE SE ILLUSTRATA - now, I got to know that YOU already make that! Congratulations!
Rosary prayers are my first go to learning and listening to mysteries and others.
Lingua Latina looks great, and reminds me of the Mauger text I'm using for learning French.
Yeah it's amazing! I recorded the whole book here if you'd like to read along with me: ua-cam.com/play/PLU1WuLg45SiyrXahjvFahDuA060P487pV.html
Thanks a TON for that Dowling Article. This is such amazing material and I love the little sense of humour in it lol.
As a healthcare provider, if you want to understand your doctor (and law!) Latin comes in handy! I took Latin both in highschool and in college- it's awesome!
Wow first time hearing you speaking english in what? 10 years? hahahaha. Great work!
Wow, brother, conheci esse cara há 1 ano. Você já estuda Latin há tanto tempo assim? Daora, me adiciona lá no facebook.com/theeternalhumorist
Não tem um lugar onde não tenha br kkkkk
@@RonioFOX não msm
My native is not English . i speak 3 languages fluently , and 2 more language moderately ! but i understand 5 language totally ! Latin is the mother of many European languages , and my language is from Sanskrit , so for me it is bit different and all those pronunciations. but am trying .English is my second language . i am at infant stage of learning Latin . your video is informative . thank u very much :)
Salve, Luci!
I'm currently teaching myself Latin with Lingua Latina and my main goal (mostly at least) is to be able to read Literature in Latin. Should I keep up on this goal or do I need to put effort just like you did into being a fluent speaker of the language?
That’s all you’ll need! You know my LLPSI playlist?
@@polyMATHY_Luke Yes! I've been using your playlist with each chapter I read, they've been really useful in making me work the pronunciation. And hey, I've got quite a lot of questions about LLPSI, do you mind answering me some of them?
You're a superhero
Magari!
Very inspirational😀
Thanks!
Oh boy, I think you're convincing me to learn Latin, at least a little. Have you ever considered making videos of yourself reading the lessons from Lingua Latina aloud? I'm very much an audio learner. I usually start a language with Pimsleur, which is purely audio. As a musician, the sounds of a language go into my head much faster and deeper than anything I read. If the book existed in audio form, I'd have a 100% better chance of cracking it.
Edit: I just found your playlist! I'm starting immediately. Thank you so much!
"I see people using words in funny ways"
Same 😂 I don't even speak Latin, but I wonder if it would help me or make me instead more frustrated with English-speakers...
I’m learning right now in high school
if I may add, in my opinion the reason why it is very useful to learn Latin is its use of declensions and cases instead of articles, it may seem small but having this type of system, Latin does not respond to a rigorous syntax , that is, the order of the words inside a sentence is not very important, if I say "puella amat magistram", "magistram amat puella" or "puella magistram amat" these three sentences all have the same meaning or "the girl loves the teacher".
This thing is very useful because it helps our brain in reasoning, when we think in languages like English (in my case before learning Latin I thought in Italian) we have the concepts in mind and we have to make a lot of effort to order them and give a sense to what we are thinking, in Latin you don't need to make this effort, you throw the concepts there within the sentence in the exact order in which you think them and the sentence maintains a complete sense.
Salvete! I’m going to undertake the path to learn Latin! I am inspired by the Spanish and French speakers who keep trying to correct me on my way of speaking their languages. I’m going to learn Latin to tell them that they are speaking Latin wrong lol 😂 jk. I really want to read the ancient literature of Latin and help my English grammar and vocabulary. I think it will build my mental discipline as well. Thank you for all this content!
im a traditional latin mass catholic, learning prayers in latin and the mass responses, plus being a mmassiv ehitory nerd has pushed me towards learning latin, gonna have to take the plunge, I'm sicilian and since learning a few words I realized how much latin there is in our language
I was watching your videos out of pure interest in languages and linguistics, but now i got into a uni (Fundamental and Applied Linguistics bachelor) and there's Latin as a subject so now your videos are not only interesting, but actually super useful for me lol Very happy about that, gonna watch Scorpio Martianus content for that immersion in the language x)
Love your videos. I took two years of Latin in high school and at the beginning of my second year I asked our magister when do we learn to speak it and he laughed at me and said “Latin is a dead language, nobody speaks it anymore”. This was in 1981. Thank you for bringing it back alive. I could listen to you speak it for hours. I’m relearning it now in my old age. Btw how do we get the answers to the pensvm in Lingva Latina? I’ve just started but could not locate the answers in the back of the book.
2:31 he says it. He says the phrase he hates the most! (The V word in front of Latin)
If used with a careful definition, “Vulgar Latin” can be used. But most people are careless and don’t know how it has been abused so it’s better discarded
Salve :)
What you say is so true. I'm a Spanish speaker learning Latin. And I don't find it difficult to learn. Thanks for the video
I've already ordered it! Sounds like a great plan!
You’re the best
Excellent Luke. I found out about you just this week through ScorpioMartianu's UA-cam channel. I speak fluent Spanish and Portuguese and enough Italian to survive in Italy for a while. As a student of history (esp the Julius Caesar period) I always wanted to understand some Latin and learn pronunciation. I could read maybe 15% through my knowledge of Spanish. Just found this channel too. Subscribed to both. Bought Lingua Latina for Kindle. Had to return it as it is badly formatted and made unreadable (more like a PDF where you can't resize). Will get the printed book instead.
Thanks! You know that I'm also ScorpioMartianus, right? 😃 🦂 Thanks so much for subscribing! You'll learn Latin quickly.
@@polyMATHY_Luke I know. What I meant was that I found Scorpio first then YT showed me polyMATHY. LOL
I'm a Portuguese speaker and I want to study Latin and I hope to be prepared to understand the Cicero's speech. Currently I'm learning French and English and Latin can help me in the process.
Hear, hear! Totally agree that learning the languages that contributed to the development of the English language is of inestimable value in appreciating the riches of the English language, as well as understanding how this language got to be the way it is today.
Once one has learned, say, French, German, Latin and Greek, one will no longer be asking why English spelling is the way it is. The spelling will no longer seem arbitrary, because it will be clear that there are specific historical reasons that it is is the way it is.
Furthermore, one will be able to discern which words are of which origin, know the different sets of spelling rules that apply to words of various origins, and from there, figure out which set of pronunciation and spelling rules is applicable in the given situation.
I personally have a project in the works to learn not only those languages, but also the rest of the languages that contributed to the development of the English language, so: Old Norse, Scots Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Welsh, Dutch, Old English and Middle English.
And Icelandic, because it's basically the modern version of Old Norse, which has undergone so astoundingly little change in the past over 1000 years that if someone speaks Old Norse to a modern Icelander, they will be able to understand it with little difficulty.
I figured out the grammar and how to say words. Now I just started translating. I've been just going on google and finding random latin sentences and figuring out how to translate them.
Haha I really should get my lazy ass to work then! I did a few chapters from Lingua Latina per se illustrata years ago and now about a month ago I though I really shouldn't have abandon it so I wanted to go back but turns out I forgot almost everything I ever knew so now I'm going through it again from the beginning. A month in and I'm nowhere near 1/3rd of it though! You got me really motivated!
I'm glad if I've motivated you! If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask them here and we can advise others as well.
I've been dabbling in Latin on and off for a year and I've noticed a spike in fluency with Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. Now I've gotten more serious with Latin so I can finally conquer the Roman languages and unlock the other half of the English language.
hey very cool video
Luke is a bald Icon. Better than Bezos in my humble opinion. I love him
Grātiās tibi
Luke, thank you !
I'm very happy to have found Your channel! Can You recommend me books like "Lingua latina per se"....etc... on ancient greek/koine greek/biblical greek?
It would be awsome to talk with You sometime in latin.
Great video! I am wanting to start learning Latin and am glad that I found your channel.
I'm doing It right away
I’ve studied French and German. Currently studying Swedish. Once I’m happy with my Swedish I’ll move on to Portuguese and then I think I want to learn either Latin or Russian. I’m fascinated with language as a hobby and maybe someday for work and travel.
Gratia tibi per lingua Latina.
I loved learning Latin at school.
I then went to a french university so can parler la lingo comme un indigene.
And then I went to Italy without a word. By a hybrid of 20th century french and school boy Latin, I got by completely.
Latin is a dead language
As dead as dead can be
It killed off all the Romans
And now it's killing me
(That's me in 1975)
Ps keep up the good work Luke, your videos are always super interesting.
Hi Luke, a wonderfull experience and advices. I would want to know in more depth how you achieved to be fluent in only three months. How much chapters or lessons did you read every day, etc. Thanks in advance!
P. S.: Your channels are great and I enjoy every content in them, specially the Lingua Latina audio recordings along with the text itself. Also your podcast is great. Thank you so much by your efforts and work, indeed is a labor of love and passion what you do. I will be a Patreon for sure :)
Please make a video about how to learn (and master) Latin pronunciation. I have so much trouble finding a complete guide or practice site.
Cool stuff. I will have to get that book. I have, for many years, had an old Latin textbook from the 1960‘s, but have not been interested in learning it until now. Glad I found your channel. Cheers!
YEAH! That's very fine how you explain LINGUA LATINA;-))
Wild that I just found this. Just found out about these books tonight on a whim. I moved to Kentucky 5 months ago and am now only an hour from Lexington. Also have the Spencerian books. Love when things like this happen.
“What’s that?” he replied to a question from Olney that broke in upon his train of thought.
“I was saying that I hoped you wouldn’t be fool enough to tackle Latin.”
“But Latin is more than culture,” Ruth broke in. “It is equipment.”
“Well, are you going to tackle it?” Olney persisted.
Martin was sore beset. He could see that Ruth was hanging eagerly upon his answer.
“I am afraid I won’t have time,” he said finally. “I’d like to, but I won’t have time.”
“You see, Martin’s not seeking culture,” Olney exulted. “He’s trying to get somewhere, to do something.”
“Oh, but it’s mental training. It’s mind discipline. It’s what makes disciplined minds.” Ruth looked expectantly at Martin, as if waiting for him to change his judgment. “You know, the foot-ball players have to train before the big game. And that is what Latin does for the thinker. It trains.”
“Rot and bosh! That’s what they told us when we were kids. But there is one thing they didn’t tell us then. They let us find it out for ourselves afterwards.” Olney paused for effect, then added, “And what they didn’t tell us was that every gentleman should have studied Latin, but that no gentleman should know Latin.”
“Now that’s unfair,” Ruth cried. “I knew you were turning the conversation just in order to get off something.”
“It’s clever all right,” was the retort, “but it’s fair, too. The only men who know their Latin are the apothecaries, the lawyers, and the Latin professors.
I want learn Latin because I want improve myself for New information
3:14 i understood that reference
Well, i'm a portuguese native speaker, and additionally i speak a bit of spanish too, i find amusing the common words between romance languages i surely thought about learning Latin but i just don't know where to start neither how to pratice since all native speakers are dead, and mostly i try to consume content from native speakers when learning a new language so i can get used to the language and sound closer to what a native sounds.
Learning Latin is great, but learning German made English make a LOT more sense to me. I'd say do both.
Not only would you be able to read 99% of old literature, you’d also probably feel special as, even to this day, the language carries a good amount of prestige.
Damn! I speak Italian, but I absolutely love the sound of Latin. Now off to learn it!
4:20 Latin was universal language until 19th century
Thanks for posting this video!
I admire Desiderius Erasmus and hope to read his original works. In stark contrast, I am also interested in Anglish, in which only Anglo-Saxon words are used. This contrast further emphasizes how much English has borrowed from other languages. In the current global world, other languages are also borrowing from English as well.
I did buy this book online however it was only a small booklet which was vocabulary but i have the bought the one you are talking about
Right, you need volume called Pars I Familia Romana
thanks!!
Wait, you’re living in Lexington,Kentucky? I live Louisville,Kentucky and have a passing interest in learning Latin. I found your channel about the Barbarians TV series and enjoyed your videos. Keep up the good work!
I don’t live in Lexington, but I’ve vistlited a few times for the Conventiculum Latinum.
I just want to read all those books of antiquity.
is this.... an i+1 book that teaches you the language? That's like the holy grail of language learning.
Yup!
What is an i+1 book? I've never heard that term before.
@@CCAA2233 An i+1 *sentence* is basically a sentence where you understand everything except one word or point about it. So you can grasp the meaning of the word intuitively. The i+1 structure is scientifically proven to be the best way to learn language. So an "i+1 book" would be a book that's structured in this way. So that when you read, each sentence only has 1 thing you're missing, that you can intuitively grasp and pick up on. Theoretically this allows for you to smoothly read through the book, even with no experience. Lingua Latina Per se Illustrata does this for Latin. You can pick up the book not knowing latin, and despite it being entirely in latin, you can read through it just fine. For Japanese there's a site drdru.github.io/ which does this concept as well. Albeit it expects you to already know the writing system (hiragana and katakana) before starting, similar to how lingua latina requires you to know the latin alphabet. But as an example:
🐒 猿 (Sa ru)
🍌 バナナ (Ba na na)
🍌🐒 猿はバナナを食べる (saru wa banana o taberu)
If you understood that last sentence, you can get how this concept works. As you read through the pages, you understand more and more, and the sentences get more complex and intricate, while allowing you, a complete beginner, to still understand what's being said. By the end of the first section in the japanese one you're reading stuff like 森の中にキムとチャックだ｡ キムはチャックが 大好き｡ オオカミがいる ！チャックは[ギャー！ 怖い！]と言う｡キムは[怖くない｡ 私は強い！]と言う｡
キムとチャックが結婚する｡ キムは妊娠する｡ 5人の赤ちゃんがいる｡
This i+1 concept mostly has taken off in Japanese learning via a method called "AJATT" (All Japanese All The Time) where the focus is i+1 content, and constant immersion (ideally 24/7 japanese exposure, and ideally i+1 content). The problem is that most native materials aren't i+1, and that most beginner content isn't immersive, native-like, nor i+1. So it's a bit tricky to find. It turns out that latin learners have these absolutely lovely books that moves you from beginner, to able to read full books. Japanese unfortunately still lacks that. Look up Stephen Krashen. There was a site written in english, about learning english, but I can't seem to find the link. But those guys did the same sort of method.
@@Otome_chan311 Wow - thank you the detailed response! That was a very helpful explanation!
Thank you