To try everything Brilliant has to offer - free - for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/polyMATHY . The first 200 to sign up will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. FAQ: Frequenty Asked Questions about this video: “Why do you not know how to pronounce Latin correctly? Is it because you’re an Anglophone?” If you’re asking this, you’re probably Italian. In school, Italians are almost universally exposed only to the traditional Italian pronunciation of Latin (called the pronuncia scolastica), otherwise known as the Ecclesiastical Pronunciation. In this video, I am using the Restored Classical Pronunciation of Latin as it was pronounced in Rome two thousand years ago. Learn more about the history of and differences between Ecclesiastical and Classical Pronunciation here: ua-cam.com/video/XeqTuPZv9as/v-deo.html “Why did the Italians you spoke in Latin to continue to use English with you, or sought people who knew English to help you?” English is the universal language, and Italians will speak English with tourists of any nationality if they don’t speak Italian (as I pretended in this video). It’s a statistical improbability that anyone in the world traveling abroad in the 21st century wouldn’t know at least basic English (though it does still happen - there have been many Poles who speak Latin who have no English ability and have used Latin to communicate in Italy). “What language did they think you were speaking? Did they think you were American?” They believed I was Spanish or Romanian. None of them believed I was a native English speaker. Only one of the gentlemen named the language as Latin, though that certainly wouldn’t have identified my nationality. “Why was the last guy so rude to you?” On the third encounter, the gentleman was talking on the phone. I spoke to the lady next to him, whom I surmise was his girlfriend. Given the inherent strangeness of the situation, the gentleman acted as if I was hitting on his girlfriend, and thus became hostile. “Is it true, as the last gentlman said, ‘No one speaks Latin apart from you.’ ?” In this the gentleman demonstrated a truly impressive level of ignorance (assuming he was serious), since there are tens of thousands of fluent speakers of Latin around the world, plenty of whom are Italian: ua-cam.com/video/3wpX9DTad9c/v-deo.html, and Polish: ua-cam.com/video/LW9XRA4641E/v-deo.html ) Watch me speak Latin and Ancient Greek to a Greek Man! ua-cam.com/video/Yvfs5aCIy0g/v-deo.html ⬅on my other channel @ScorpioMartianus Amici d'Italia, la pronuncia che si insegna nelle scuole d'Italia non è la pronuncia del latino classico. In questo video uso la pronuncia autentica degli antichi romani del primo secolo, che si chiama la "restituta" classica. 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non è che non ci piace, è che pensiamo che tu possa essere una persona molesta, non capiamo le tue intenzioni xD la gente se si arrabbia è perché ti scambia per qualcuno malintenzionato, perché si sentono presi in giro, perché ovvio che nessuno parla latino ma che grande che sei per averlo imparato come lingua corrente xD
I'm Italian and studied Latin for 5 years in school. Italians are not expecting tourists to speak in Latin, so initially they don't understand what language you are speaking. As soon as they hear words similar to Italian, they can understand the meaning of what you are saying but they are still not convinced that it's Latin, because nobody speaks it.
@@memedesima7953 in Italia si legge seguendo le regole di pronuncia dell'italiano, all'estero si usa la cosiddetta pronuncia restituita (per esempio, la C viene sempre pronunciata K). Se ci fai caso, dice "mag-na" anziché "magna"... Questo può aver reso la comprensione ancora più difficile
also Latin at school consists mainly in translating classic works from Latin to Italian, it is not taught as other languages where you would learn to ask for directions and so on
I'm Roman. In 2001 I was approached by an elderly Hungarian pilgrim who had gotten lost and couldn't find his logdings, run by nuns. We only were able to communicate in Latin. What a surreal afternoon. He probably got kindapped and had his organs harvested, since my Latin was rubbish
My Dad had to learn ancient greek at university (he studied theology). On a holiday trip to Greece he tried to communicate in this language, but no one understood him 😂
Really? Too bad. I had an impression that Ancient Greek and Modern Greek are still somewhat similar, enough to get a very simplified idea of what a person is talking about. I studied Modern Greek for one year. There was a guy in my group who once brought something in Ancient Greek and was able to read some of it with our teacher's help. All of us were A1 level at best at the time.
I think I read somewhere that modern Greeks understand around 80% of written Ancient Greek. But the pronunciation did change more significantly, making the spoken form unintelligible for the average citizen.
What you say is not true. There are very few who do not know. He may have asked very young children who are not very interested in learning ancient Greek in their twenties further than what we learn in school. However, just so that you know even today Greeks speak ancient Greek even though it is in their new form.
@@JK19791 My colleague is from Greece and I asked her if she could understand ancient greek. She said she could read and even translate it because she used to study ancient greek, but normally noone understands spoken ancient greek.
@@winterlink27 Yeah unfortunately modern greek and ancient greek aren't mutually intelligble, even the letters and pronounciation are a bit different nowadays.
Lets take a moment and appreciate how hard it is to actually speak latin. I love how you just walk up to him and speak in Latin just like it was the most normal thing to do, like if the Roman Empire was still around
I love the one Italian guy, when he finally understands you're speaking Latin, says, "No one speaks Latin apart from you!" Interesting experiment and damn, you're so fluid and natural speaking Latin it just sounds like any other modern, living language.
@@Oggylv1 It is true, latin language was not used in its original form after the fall of Rome. Priests used a formal language and even that is changed a lot in the last 1500 year..
I think the same thing when I find people who can speak Klingon pretty much when someone's nerdy enough about something they will devote a ridiculous amount of time to mastering it even if it is completely useless
They do it in the Vatican all the time! There used to be an older priest and a couple of nuns who would give walking classes with no reading or writing allowed. I remember one comment was, "Even retarded kids and foreign prostitutes could speak Latin in 0 CE Rome!!!"
As a Spaniard who speaks a bit of Italian I'm sure they understood you but they couldn't guess why they could understand you without you speaking to them in Italian!!! Blowing minds!!!
A Spanish friend travelled to Belgium, visited a historical fortress where they reenact a change of the guard from the times when Flanders belonged to the Spanish Crown. The whole ceremony was in ancient Spanish, but the reenactors recited the words by heart. My friend says that it was mind blowing that he could understand everything they said
As italian (not Roman but from Milan) who learned latin in high school i would have recognized you spoke latin, and get the general meaning of what you were asking. But for sure i won't be able to answer iln Latin. Great video, i'm really impressed how fluently you speak latin.
We learn Latin to read texts, not to have conversations in fact. These are not my words but J. G. Droysen's, one of the most respected figures in Latin and Ancient Greek history. Most 4th year liceo classico students (aged 17-18) can translate a manual about war tactics but can't answer to an "how are you" bc that is not Latin's purpose.
Interesting, because I could hardly make out a word. However, if somebody speaks Latin with Italian way of speaking, then yes, I can figure most of it out. I am from Rome, is that we are especially bad at Latin?? Or maybe just me. I speak several dialects of LISP, but maybe not my ancestor languge.
@@alphaviki7987 I mean... we would need a context where to apply it lol You can't just ask your friend even trivial stuff like what youtube video he watches or if they like your new car using Latin, it's usage in spoken situation is very impractical
I'm not hugely surprised by the outcome, but this is the first time I've heard Latin spoken and it sounded like an actual language, rather than a torture device. Also, your mastery to hold these conversations about modern things was lovely.
Arent there 2 types of Latin? One of them is classical Latin, spoken by the romans during the time of the Empire. Other is ecclesiastical Latin developed and spoken by the catholic church i believe! They are quite different in their sounding.
Chiaro che se avesse trovato un chierico importante, o un professore di lettere e pochi altri appassionati usciti dal liceo, avrebbe avuto un colloquio quasi normale... e diciamocelo, in tutta onesta, non sarebbero neppure così rari.
@@spiderplanner9715 Beh, insomma. Io ho fatto il Classico e poi studiato archeologia, pero' di gente che sappia parlare latino fluentemente, al livello dell'autore del video, ho conosciuto forse 2-3 persone in vita mia. Se parliamo di greco antico, poi, solo il mio professore del liceo.
Anche il mio professore di latino e greco parlava fluentemente entrambe, non ho mai capito perche' non ce le abbia insegnate cosi'. Facevamo 11 ore a settimana tra le due materie, sarebbe stato assolutamente possibile, come per qualsiasi altra lingua.
@@polyMATHY_Luke Scusa Luke ma non c'entra nulla quante migliaia di persone parlano latino al mondo, in Italia (come ovunque) nessuno si aspetta che una persona si rivolga a lui in latino. Lui è incazzato proprio perché lo ha capito che stai parlando volutamente in latino (ovviamente lo sa che in realtà parli una delle lingue da lui elencate), quindi si sente preso in giro. *E' questa la ragione per cui ti dice "qui nessuno parla latino a parte te", come a dire ... "se vuoi info puoi chiedermele, se vuoi prendermi per il culo... vai...".* Non sono una persona maleducata ma nella stessa situazione mi sarei incazzato pure io perché anche se non parlo latino avrei capito che tu lo stavi parlando e mi sarebbe sembrata una presa in giro (forse se mi beccavi di buon umore ti avrei chiesto perché lo stavi facendo). Le persone che non si sono arrabbiate probabilmente neppure hanno capito la lingua che stavi parlando, magari pensavano parlassi una lingua simile all'italiano, dato che mentre ti rivolgevi a loro si saranno accorti di comprendere alcune parole. Sono (quasi) certo che qualsiasi italiano che ha riconosciuto la lingua si è comportato in due modi; o si è arrabbiato pensando a una presa in giro, oppure ti ha chiesto perché gli stavi parlando in latino, ciao Roberto.
This video produced by an ignorant is stupid; Would the idiot presenter be able to understand someone who spoke to him in "late west saxon" ancestor of English?
Brilliant ! I think the most difficult thing is to stay "locked" on your latin even when they start speaking english to you. And when the last person almost got agressive, you still did not give yourself away. Good job !
@@gyrocompaactually, that's how most of Romans today are. For a long time , Roma was abandoned on a population and social level. 100/150 yrs ago Rome was the poorest main city in Italy and felt hopelessly. So actual Romans are often so much "hood talker" exactly like in the video. "I don't have time to waste for your fun experiment". Obv I'm generalizing but there's a lot of this attitude down there
@@damedikid387i am Roman, I don’t know about what period you refer. But Rome in the. Whole of history was ever rich, before to take part of the reign of Italy, was entirely under the command of the pope. Right now economically talking it can be later only on Milan
I'm Italian. When I was a young boy, during a summer trip to Germany with my father, I remember that in our hotel in Coburg surprisingly nobody spoke english and my father did not know german. A guy in the hotel was a young university student and my father had studied latin at Liceo, they understood each other in Latin
@@AraboNormand Yes, I've already watched that one. But they are only asking Greeks how they do relate to Ancient Greek, not trying to communicate with them in actual Ancient Greek Language
When I worked in food service we had an Italian waiter, and seeing him happily chatting away with guests who spoke back in Portuguese and Spanish without any real issue was an eye opener. They sound so different but it only takes a little exposure for them to understand each other.
It is kind of like that with norwegian and the føróyskt (Torshavn / Faroe isles). We don't understand much the first 7 sentences of each other but with some focus it works pretty ok
As a Brazilian Portuguese native speaker I can say that is easy to understand Italian because of the very clear way that they pronounce things. Spanish is also very clear when it comes to phonetics if they don´t speak too fast (Mexican Spanish is very easy to understand in my opinion). However, Portuguese and French may be harder to understand because sometimes is difficult to identify the way the sound of certain words will turn out based on the way they are written, since vowels and consonants may change pronunciation.
I worked once at this pizza shop in NYC and the owner spoke Italian to his Mexican workers who spoke no English and they all seemed to understand each other pretty well
Your Latin is excellent. I studied it for four years, could understand you well, but it's the first time I heard Latin spoken with an inflection of daily usage, as it was probably spoken in the streets. Long story short, your Latin brought Latin to life for me.
How do you now that his latin is excellent? Have you been in ancient Rome and listened to the true latin? His latin could be appreciated only by a mother tongue speaker. Do you know anyone still in life?
@@jordantsak7683 It is excellent in the context of my knowledge of Latin -- I could easily understand him, and it had a very credible, life-like flow. Is it excellent compared to the actual Latin spoken in ancient Rome? You are right, I have no way of verifying that. By my comparison, again, was made in the context of my linguistic knowledge: sentence structure, vocabulary, flow. We can recognize various forms of excellence without becoming time-travelers.
As an Italian who has studied Latin quite well, I almost completely agree with you, however its pronunciation is the only thing that betrays it: some vowel inflections are purely English-speaking, not to mention the sounds of "g" and "c", which always have a sweet sound in front of the vowels "e" and "i" (for example, no Latin would have pronounced "descendere" that way, he says "deskendere", which is incorrect and typically English). I take the liberty of criticizing this, though, precisely because this guy's competence is incredible, and his ability to speak and think in Latin is beyond imagination. So, you are right to assume that he somehow revived a dead language, and don't listen to the guy above: we know how our ancestors spoke Latin, very well too, and I'm almost ashamed for my countrymen appeared in this video.
@@francescodanna3934 the thing you mentioned about himenglish-speaking latin is something I saw someone say the other day, that English native speaker spreaks Latin with their english accent, not a latin-languages accent
@@francescodanna3934 I agree with you, Francesco! And yes, maybe it's because I've studied latin too (anche se con la media del 4, lol) but I understood everything at first hearing. And I actually watched the video just to hear his inflections and see how impactful they were in understanding. But I must say that I was pleasantly surprised there.
Having gone through 6 years of Latin in high school I could understand a great deal, but what most surprised me is how beautiful it sounded. My teachers never did sound this melodic and natural.
I had three years of Latin, and I thought my teacher spoke it very well. But compared to this guy, her pronunciations were the verbal equivalent of running in mud 😋
*That's because it's not Latin, but it's Latin pronounced as if it was Italian, so lots of the words he says actually ARE Italian (since Latin and Italian often only differ by pronunciation).*
@@polyMATHY_Luke Not because of that. I mean, in that district of the city you must have been the only person who used Latin as a spoken language. There are people who know it, but they don’t come to random people with the words “Ignosce domini”. In that department he was right. In addition to that, you really joked with him, because you said that you don’t speak English.
@@agrippa5643 The dude just figured out that the dude was laying bullshit on him. Nobody is obliged to be a role model for a test…Especially, after he said that he doesn’t speak English, Spanish, Italian. “Are you joking with me?”, was a logical question.
@@diabolical8964 there's plenty of classical writings on the pronunciations and such, hence why we know the "R" are "rolled" for example. The ideas are there, molding the mouth movements to produce the correct sound might be the biggest problem. I believe a native speaker of a romance language, with the same amount of study and practice, would have an accent closer to the real thing than, say, a native English speaker.
@@rougewang5332 Se l'hai studiato per 6 anni, evidentemente è perché sei stato bocciato, e non è un caso. Tu parli della pronuncia ecclesiastica, o italiana, che è solo una convenzione e non corrisponde alla pronuncia storica della lingua. Luke, invece, usa la ricorstruzione molto affidabile di come il latino doveva suonare ai tempi di Cicerone
@@rougewang5332 He's speaking Restored Classical Pronunciation of Latin. You most likely learned Ecclesiastical Latin. If you read his description, he is not using the Ecclesiastical pronunciation on purpose because Italians would most likely understand.
Technically, English is a Germanic language not a Roman language so the English one gets a pass. Spanish or Italian *would* be possible with Latin, so yeah I can see how he got caught
@@DeluxBass but you can speak english fully romanic or fully germanic. It has nearly for everything a word in the other language group. And the grammatic is more brytonic than germanic. Not entirely of course.
My grandfather used to be an engineer, and he would go all around Europe to sell his company's products. He spoke good English and fluent German on top of our mother tongue French, but one day he got to talk with a man who didn't speak any of those languages. They managed speaking to each other by using Latin that my grandfather recalled from when he was a pupil!
@krenv until the 19th century Latin was still very much the language of science, just like that of religion in Europe. Scientists of whole Europe talked Latin to each other and publicized in that language.
As a native Polish speaker, if a random stranger started talking to me in Old Polish, I would probably think "that guy travelled in time, I have to join him!"
As @@veritasdeutsch6608 demonstrates, I would mistake that stranger for a tourist from somewhere like Bulgaria instead. Weren't all Slavic languages very similar a thousand years ago? Or if he spoke mediæval Polish, I would mistake him for a contemporary peasant.
@@mrsmith1938 Incorrect. Proto-Slavic have the same root, but they diverged ca. 600 AD.. Russian is East-Slavic, Polish is West-Slavic. 2 different language families.
That's because we Italian people generally are very intuitive and we're pretty good in communication even when we're ignorant af. We consider communication very important and we try to help when it's possible. So we can listen someone talking for a while until we catch a word that we can understand, and we can suppose the meaning of an entire argument just by it and by your vocal tone of voice and your body language. So when they heard the names of places he was looking for, they automatically understood what was the need of the guy, also because he looked like a tourist and he was very calm. Btw.. Many Italians are able to understand Latin because some schools teach it. Obviously the Latin we study at school sounds very different, but still.. The Latin that this guy talked, sounds very close to a mix between Spanish and polish imo. I'm not able to understand it because we never studied it in my school. But I can understand something if I read the text, not sure why...
Imagine if it just so happend he ran into someone who moderately understood Latin, played along, and tried to actually answer him in Latin. That would have made my day.
The real pronounce of Latin Is unknown. There are only possible pronounces. Perhaps an ancient Roman would have not understood the pleasant Latin speaker.
@@ciaotiziocaius4899 Nonsense, every 30/40 yo has studied latin in middle school and highschool in italy but that doesn't mean they can speak it fluently lol and on the contrary, very young people are even less likely to know latin since it's not mandatory in middle school anymore but it's up to the teacher to teach it or not, and the only high school where it's mandatory is a specific type (liceo classico) and some rudimental basics in liceo scientifico but that's it.
As an Italian I think the last guy is very rude, but I understand he being confused about what is happening. when he said " no one speaks Latin apart from you" I couldn't stop laughing🤣🤣🤣. So good idea and very well done, congratulations!
Mate, you have some seriously big balls to try that!! Credit to you for keeping a straight face, especially considering you speak Italian and could understand... the last bloke was getting a bit angsty, wasn't he!?
Italy has well over a dozen languages natively, so this is nothing out of the ordinary or embarrassing TBH. It's no different then not knowing Mandarin in China and speaking something else, it's not _that_ unusual.
@@realtalk6195 sure, but nowadays 99.9% of Italians speak Italian either exclusively or alongside their "dialetto", there are almost no exclusive dialetto speakers. You'll never see a Neapolitan trying to push Napoletano on a Milanese, for instance, since both will speak Italian
There is a bias here Luke! Here in Roma we are so used to "Turists", particularly in the city center, their sixth sense smelled US the moment you showed up. The ὀξύμωρον of a perceived US citizen speaking something that was not English got them even more confused :D
D'accordissimo. L'ultimo poi ha fatto la parte del preso in giro e si è arreso e fa "Nessuno parla latino a parte te. Quindi prendi il telefonino, vai su Google e cerca in latino la Basilica di San Giovanni" 😂 lì sono morto. Non so come ha fatto a tenere la serietà Luke hahahaha
I agree, but isn't that part of the fun? Playing with people's expectations. It might even have been advantageous. If people had time to think about what was being said and how it was being said they might come to realise, perhaps from their school days, that this is Latin, but with the tourist expectation they are instead just flopping about for which foreign language is being spoken and at the same time as just about getting the sense of what is being said. It's that last bit which was being tested.
@@Raycheetah I'm surprised there wasn't any use of the vernacular ( or was that edited out?). Perhaps the same experiment outside , or nearby, the University?
We're Mediterranean people. Guest is sacred in greek and roman culture. Being in your house or in this case in your City and Nation. The G Maps doesnt work as an excuse, there are tons of reasons someone wouldn't or couldn't use it. We're so used to turists its no big deal. I speak french, spanish english and of course mothertounge Italian: I once actually just made me follow by a turist and I brought him to the place he wanted to visite and in the meanwhile we chew the fat. I has finished my errands and i said why no? I like using languages when I can. Tip #1: Modern Romans are friendly and kind. Be a respectful tourist and you will find nothing but great ospitlity. We saw so much shit in the years. Girls and grown mem having bath in a 500 years old fountain monument and shit like that. Hooligans and drunk people destroying the city center harassing our women. If you ever meet a prejudiced roman Citizen, it is never without reason. Be a good tourist. We have kindness and hospitality in our DNA code. Remember that the Romans were the only Conquistadores in hiatory to let the won nation people have its own religion, tradition and even its political internal situation as long as they paid what due to Rome, respect roman soldiera and Praetoriani and NEVER NEVER NEVER try Revolt (only the Israelis were a pain in the ass in this regard, so many revolts. Life's of Brianrian docet. You see how are moral system sprouted such an experiment so unique in history. So different compared to the other: British Empire and Spanish Empire. Not to talk about before: Gengis Khan, Persia, Islam, that was just pur barbarity. You can see the difference
@@traurigesland4622 Persians too did let conquered people keep their religions, traditions and rulers; I don't understand why you put them into "barbarians".
That was really interesting. I speak Spanish, am a bit familiar with Catalan, and while I don’t exactly actually speak Romanian I understand it and can manage to express myself if I must. It surprised me how much Latin with that pronunciation made sense to me, actually! The root is so apparent, and it helps to have known some words like “ubi” already. You should try this in Romania and Spain too. 😃 Romanians like to say how their language is the closest to Latin, so it would be fun to see how that goes.
I would think Sicilian is the closest to latin....its much older than Italian or Romanian plus Romanian has a lot of slavic influences. But I'm no expert
I am Romanian and I understood him quite well, actually. I wouldn't be able to answer back in Latin, but he would probably understand Romanian, too, if he speaks Latin so well. I don't speak Latin, but if I read a text in Latin, for example, I get what's all about, even though I don't understand every single word. I still understand the text. I actually understand Latin better than I understand Italian. Languages can be really funny and interesting.
This happened to me! I was in a Latin immersion program in Italy in the summer of 2014. I got lost on my way to the catacombs and I'm from Canada, so do not know a word of Italian. I was on an all-but-deserted back street and found an elderly Italian woman. I spoke to her in Latin and she looked at me strangely, but gave me directions and I was able to understand enough (due to its similarity to Latin) to find my way!
@@johnloman4164 true but I know people used to learn Latin back in the day. My dads a boomer and he took Latin in middle school and high school. Wouldn’t be surprised if she did too
Latin is a dead language, modern Italian is a different language that depends from ancient Latin but that has undergone very heavy changes, many more than those suffered by the current English. I am Italian, and I'm not a native English speaker, but I have more issues understanding Latin that understanding ancient English. We study Latin at high school (well, it depends on the type of school you go to) but hardly people remember how to speak it.
I studied Latin for 6 years. My father was helpful as he could speak fluent Latin (and read Ancient Greek). He told me he had had a conversation once in Latin. He was in Japan in 1945 at the surrender and he met a Buddhist monk. The only language they had in common was Latin. So he persuaded me it might come in useful!
@LegoGuy87 It's a contraction of "stai a dire", which in turn is a regionalism for "stai dicendo". The sentence translates to "what are you saying" but with a "wft" vibe to it.
@LegoGuy87 Kinda, but again it's not a generic Italian thing, it's specifically from Rome. It's a bit stereotypical: people from other regions may say "aò ma che staddì" to make their impression of a person from Rome ("aò" being the Roman equivalent of "hey").
@LegoGuy87 Since the citizens of Rome speak like if they've never been at school, instead use the correct form "Ma cosa stai dicendo?", they change the gerund verb with "sta(re) a + dire". Conjugated in the second person singular is "Sta(i) a di(re)".
@@raffobafforb Why? Because Latin is a dead language that is not practiced (learnt) by everybody in Europe (it’s even a problematic in education system in France, for instance - because they are cutting more and more hours). Also to go to Rome to speak Latin sounds a/ arrogant (knowing Latin in the 21st century in Europe is a sign of social status, more or less) b/pretentious - even pupils who would study Latin, most of the time learn it by reading and writing, but rarely speaking C - Latin was spoken/practiced all over Europe for quite some time… so why Rome? D- I’ll watch the video when he goes to Athens and speak Socrates’ Greek. I’ll be impressed. Here are all the things I thought about while watching 2min of this video, which makes me think it’s low tier content.
Sir, thank you for this wonderful video. It’s such a pleasure to see you walking around and speaking Latin, reminding Italians of their fascinating history. ❤
He should have spoken the actual Italian roman dialect then. It would be fun. But foreign people can't understand this. At "Oh ma che sta di'" I pissed myself laughting
Clearly Italians don’t speak Latin in normal life, but a lot of us study it at school. But we learn it almost exclusively in written form and we use “ecclesiastical pronounciation” (ex. etiam=eziam), so It’s also different to speak! Nice Video :)
Not to far from most people who "learn" a second language in school. If you really want to speak it properly, you have to make efforts outside of school because of how unnatural the teaching is.
Well, don't bother with it. The same is true for us, Greeks. I have the impression than people living in other countries, believe that we, Greeks or Italians, speak like our ancestors who lived... just 2000 years ago!
@@MonsieurCorbusier There was no such thing as a "wrong" or "correct" pronounciation of Latin. It all depended on the century one lived in, the speaker's social standing, educational level, geographic origin. If nowadays Geoffrey Chaucer would talk to an Anglo-Indian shopkeeper in Soho, the result would probably sound way similar. The so told "pronuncia restituta" of Latin is an academic artifact, hardly comprehensible to, say, Ennius and Saint Augustine. Yet they were both native speakers of Latin.
@@bletrick3352 I think Latin is the same to a Roman Italian what Old German is to many Germans. The grade of influence from other languages might be similar. Latin is just a very specific and well described ancestor of Italian. I think the first word that described the German laguage as whole was thiodisc=the language of the common people and was mentioned somewehere around 1000 AD. Before that German people didnt care "framing" their language.
That it is! I wholeheartedly agree with Tolkien's sentiments on learning languages. It's not a stuffy thing to do, at all, especially when the language you're learning fascinates you so.
But was the Roman accent when they spoke Latin?... It must have changed a lot in the centuries from when Romans where just a local tribe to when they become an Empire... Likely Latin changed/evolved a lot and if someone would speak Latin of the Roman origins to Romans at the time of Augustus they wouldn't understand him. On top of that I am sure the Roman settlers in the colonies would all adopt into Latin lots of local language words and expressions etc.... I am quite certain that Romans settled in Spain for a generation or two would find very hard to speak Latin with similarly settled Romans in Palestine or Syria etc For the ordinary Roman colons there were no handy dictionaries and today internet, with so much linguistics info available as today to try to keep abreast with all this evolution
the romans werent just a tribe before the roman empire, there were the Italic kingdoms similar to how the german peoples were hundreds of little kingdoms before becoming the HRE or modern germany/poland/austria/switzerland @@msblue1003
The guys that realized you were speaking latin made me burst out laughing with that "Ma è latino! Sta a parlà latino!" Fact is, we italians do understand latin, even with the pronuncia restituta, it just takes that little effort in trying to understand it. Of course the first reaction is "Ma come parla questo qua?" but what confused most of them was "understanding" what you were saying without actually knowing the language. Unfortunately a lot of us just don't give much importance to Latin, because the way it's often taught in Italy drains any passion and enthusiasm, thus making latin to be perceived as "the old boring and unnecessarily difficult version of Italian" Grazie per i tuoi video, Luca, mi stai dando la carica per dare tutti gli esami di linguistica e filologia romanza che mi mancano ahahahahah
I think we do understand some words, but I find really difficult understanding the sense of the sentence since we don't use cases and both the endings of nouns and verbs are very different from Italian
It helps that Luke understands Italian. He's literally helping them by repeating what they say to him back in Latin. If a Latin speaker with no knowledge if Italian attempted this, it wouldn't turn out quite as well
I had a similar thought. I was thinking that he was helping them a lot by repeating back in Latin whatever they said in Latin, but with a questioning tone, as if to elicit some affirmation from them that yes, in fact they knew exactly what he was saying. But you make a better point, a true classical Latin-only speaker might have turned out worse. But it makes me wonder, as conquerors of such vast territories, might not that ancient Latin speaker also be familiar with other ancient languages, such as Spanish, German, Arabic, definitely Greek?
@@jkelly02 Certainly ancient greek if they were well educated. Spanish is debateable as Spanish is more of a spectrum of languages in modern times than a single unified language. Add to that that Spanish emerged from common latin.
@@Kyoptic I'd argue that spanish has more unity than german and maybe even italian (given the amount of different languages that get brushed off as "dialects of italian")
@@jkelly02 Greek definitely, it was required if one wanted to be viewed as cultured and you could get all your official stuff done in Rome itself using Greek. Other than that, it's logical to assume that despite the views Romans held toward most cultures, many learned languages or at least was familiar with them - traders, provincial administrators, governors, soldiers. But Spanish as a language didn't exist back then; if you mean the Celtiberic languages, afaik we barely know a few things about it, if you mean the Vulgar Latin spoken in Iberia later, well that's not really a question. Plus, as others pointed out, you could argue that 'Spanish' didn't even exist in 1400 - we walk right into the dialect vs language dilemma with this question.
@@sztallone415 You are correct. You remembered thar at first, it was a realm of Gallic Tribes, similar to Gaul, and Britannia, then Romanized, then Visigothized, then the Moors invaded, then centuries of Renconquista, after which, you get the Iberian Peninsula folk, a number of independent realms, two of whom, united to form Spain, then There was Portugal, and the unique Basque people as well. So the language spoken there before the Visigoth occupation, would likely been a local variant of Latin/local Gallic hybrid language, sort of like the form of Spanish spoken in various places in Mexico by the common people differs from Castilian Spanish due to Nahuatl and other languages words being mixed in.
I have been watching your videos for a while and have never come across this one before. It looks like maybe your first attempt at speaking latin to modern romans. The last gentlemen seemed prepared to give you the modern roman greeting of "Vatella pija 'nder... " if he thought you would have understood. Its great to see how far this has come and a lot of fun to see the origins. Please keep up the good work.
If you mess with a roman, you can get rowdy in a matter of seconds. The guy was going into that direction I can tell you. Especially because they tried to speak English and our latinist didn't flinched for a second, it's seen as a sign of disrespect
@@giorgiociaravolol1998 sì però è stato molto bravo a mantenere la calma il protagonista del video nonostante appunto stava rischiando di irritare il tipo
@@giorgiociaravolol1998 Yep. Things were heating up there. I think an italian could tell he was american by his accent but I may be wrong. The guy even made the effort to speak in english, he literally told him to take his phone and google instructions in latin LOL.
@@TheFirstGroover parli del ragazzo romano? Non sono del tutto d'accordo, devi ricordarti che tu sai chi è il ragazzo che parlava in latino, e sai che stava girando un video innocente. Quel ragazzo romano però ha solo visto un turista che cercava di farsi dare indicazioni in latino, è normale pensare che voglia prenderti in giro.
gtfo with that shit, almost everything is kinda the same anyway xD show me wheres blabla, there? that way? no i dont apeak english, oh metro that way? ok thanks
Romania was under roman rule for a long time. Hence the name ROMAN-ia. The modern Romanian language is hugely influenced by Latin. Which was kept even though surrounded by slavic type languages.
@@sajt6619 I was under the impression the name derives from the romanian word Român which derived from latin word romanus (of the roman empire) Plus 90% of the functioning words, 80% adverbs and 68% of the adjectives were directly inherited from latin. With romanian and Italian sharing a 77% lexical similarity. So very heavily influenced by the roman empire
@@NNZ00 Well, jokes aside, yeah the language is similar but its not due to long lasting roman occupation's influence on its people. It's because romania was a majorly multicultural multiethnic place and in order to create a national identity around a certain language, they picked the version of latin local nobles and clergymen use to communicate, and this was what was taught to new "romanian people". It wasn't that people who lived there suddenly in buch of generations said fuck our language lets just use these latin words
@@fabiz_strat9884 Mi spiace deluderti, ma la sua pronuncia, benché con un forte accento americano, è con tutta probabilità molto vicina a come realmente si parlava il latino classico, al contrario della pronuncia ecclesiastica che viene comunemente insegnata nei nostri licei.
Italian people: can you speak English? The Roman guy: why do they keep asking me about the future language of one of our insignificant colonies up north?
It wasn't a colony under JC. Not sure if could be even considered a puppet state. He defeated some tribes and help put back a king in power. The conquest came only under Claudius.
This was so fun. It helps me improve my terrible Latin proficiency. I'm also glad that you gave people an interesting challenge but stopped out of courtesy when the last guy became annoyed.
It's very impressive how you can speak Latin so easy and how you overcome your native accent too. I thought Latin was almost a dead language, but you have it bring back to life. Thanks for sharing.
This is so similar to Sanskrit. Just like Latin, Sanskrit was one of the 3 global languages. The last being Mandarin which is still spoken in China. Sanskrit & Latin were languages of the God and now sadly lost in time. No Indian can understand Sanskrit. Hindi has taken over. Just like Italian has taken over Italy and no one can understand Latin.
@@edwardspencer9397 Apparently both Latin and Sanskrit (and also the germanic languages) are descendants from a super language known as proto-indo-european. Also, in the Veda's there's a God named Dyauspitr which translates as sky god, in Greek it's Zeus Pater, in Latin it's Jupiter. While the spellings look different the sounds are formed very similar and they all translate to sky-god. So this proto-indo-european origin was likely the birthplace for a lot of religions too.
@@CKarmorr Agreed on that. Also few other words similar across all languages are the words we use for mother, father & sister. Dant is teeth in Sanskrit while it's dontis in latin / greek. And dental as we know it.
Congratulations! I studied Latin in High school and your spoken Latin is mesmerizing. I could understand most of what you said without reading the subtitles however no chance most of the people would understand Latin spoken at your level of fluency :D. We don't learn how to speak Latin in school just to translate it. Try making another video by writing and see if you are more successful! Warm hugs from an Italian in Vietnam
No one knows how to really speak it. It's dead language, but at least we can translate and assume how it goes. I had also studied latin, can't remembee the words anymore though. But then again, latin resembles so much of the modern languages so people should be able to have general idea what he is saying.
@@Tespri that is actually not true. There are records about the Latin language phonetic and its changes during the centuries. For example the U - V differentiation or the sound of the letter C in Roman Latin and Middle age Latin is well documented. There are also many references about how to correctly read syllables or even how to compose a poem. I am not an expert but I am sure there are plenty of lectures about the topic. Cheers
@@Ben-ek1fz Very few Arabic influences, which do not interfere in the grammar, and trivial things. It's not comparable with the influences of Latin, even the words from Arabic origins (Like, azucar, which you also use a similar word 'sugar') they have synonyms from Latin origins. English has a lot of Arabic and Persian influences.
@@leonardos2925 few but pretty damn noticeable phrases and or nouns. "Ojalá que la puerto de alcala esta cerca." pretty much any Spanish word that starts with "al"; the color "rosa" (is both Latin and Arabic).
I love your Latin pronunciation! Just like Italian! I learned Latin at school but we were taught to pronounce it with an English accent. Later, when I went to Rome, knowing it made it easy to pick up Italian, and thereafter, I spoke Latin with an Italian accent as you did. It sounds much more authentic.
Outside of church I’ve never heard Latin spoken conversationally but as an Italian speaker I understood almost everything. This man’s conversational Latin is absolutely superb.
@@jakevachon8948 you got a telepathic connection with John or how do you know what he can understand and what not. You probably can't even speak italian lol
@@athmaid don't you think "I understood almost everything" is a bit of a stretch? Maybe in his particular case he understands Latin because he went to church a lot, but Italians can not normally understand Latin any more than French, Spanish or Portuguese speakers. The writting being there tricks you into thinking you understand what's being said.
I studied Latin for 3 years at school. I'm glad that I did, because it helped me understand French, and I can understand Spanish and Italian when I read them. I love to order at those restaurants!
I am sure you can also understand my native Brazilian Portuguese in writing. As for understading the way we speak, it´s another matter since neither our Spanish speaking "cousins" cannot.
Yes! It would be great to see what university students (above all those that study Humanities), people at the museums, Vatican priests, etc. do. They will surely laugh with you instead of having a negative response, maybe some will answer you in Latin! Now it is a good time to do it, without all the tourists.
To us, Spanish native speakers and who know a little bit of the Italian language, Latin is attached to the majority of our words. It is the glue that keeps our languages together.
@@hennagaijin7856 stupid comment. In Hispania (Portugal and Spain today) there were roman poets, high officials, etc. Tarraco (today Tarragona city in Catalonia, north est of Spain) was two years capital of the Roman empire.
My Catholic priest says that when he is in Rome he’s able to get by without knowing italian through a mixture of Latin and French lol. You should try this experiment at the Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini church. It’s run by the FSSP, a religious order devoted to providing the Mass and other sacraments in their traditional Latin forms. Those priests should be able to carry a conversation in Latin
@@HarmKaban Unfortunately a lot of Priests are soft now. Pope Francis is the beacon for weakness. Sadly, Most priests from my faith don’t learn Latin anymore. Much less fluent conversational Latin.
Each Century a new generation of people appear and the civilizations and trends change. Thinking about it in one perspective it's Fascinating since its the same for us rn. In 100 years, things will be alot different. The people running the world now will be gone and the young people will be the ones running the future. Hopefully
Foreign tourists have been coming to Rome for about 2500 years. And many conquerors have passed through Italy after the fall of the Roman Empire. Each with his own language. For millennia the Romans are no longer surprised by anything. Generally all of us Italians are used to understanding even if one speaks to us in Lappish or Mongolian or Swahili (I'm exaggerating to clarify the concept, but more or less it is like this). And we almost always find a way to make him / her understand us. The famous Italian gesticulation (a language with the hands) derives from this: to be understood at any cost and by anyone. A friend of mine spent a winter in a house of Lapp peasants, totally isolated from the rest of the world, managing to understand what they were saying, even without knowing a word of Lapp, and expressing himself by gestures or drawings. And he made himself understood perfectly. These Romans in the video are proof of this habits. They captured one word and that was enough to reply. The last one did not make any effort to be understood since he realized it was a joke
Years ago there was a South African movie called 'Area 9'. At the time there was a joke in New York City that the story couldn't be set there because nobody would notice. Maybe the story wouldn't work in Rome for the same reason, lol.
I just went back and listened to some readings in Middle English, which is about half as old as Latin is, and I can barely make out every 5th or 6th word. It's pretty amazing that Italians can get the gist of Latin.
Haha that was great! I like the part when you said “I’m a man of the world”, well put. And kudos to you for sticking to the Latin all the way through👌🏼
I thought the video said American man speaking Latino to Italians in Latin Italy.. oh that would have been gold. Their reaction to how that word is so misused would have been priceless.
That was funny when the guy says, " No one speaks Latin apart from you." This reminded me of a story of a time traveler who went forward in time and was stuck knowing only his own language.
There's two versions of it the Novae is, unsurprisingly, the newwest adaptation of the books. The earlier version is much much funnier, as are the two live action films.
Many years ago, on a family vacation, we got hopelessly lost late at night driving through the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. We eventually found someone to ask for directions, but they were a monolingual Italian speaker - and while, as a family, we could speak a good number languages between us, Italian wasn't one of them. My mom rustled up her best high school Latin, and it went about as well as this - which is to say, the poor guy thought we were all very strange, but eventually was able to figure out what we were asking and with lots of gestures and a few key words give us the directions we needed.
i know English and Spanish, and have dabbled in many more. Spanish and Italian are very similar, but the vocab is different--but that's a common experience with New World Spanish. I hear spanish with "as" at the end and it mostly makes sense.
It's like in this joke: -you should learn foreign languages to talk, -they knew good number languages between them and had to talk with lots of gestures anyway.
That is hilarous. It reminds me when at hich school we went to Greece and my professor of ancient Greek started to talk in ancient greek to our bus driver that didnt understand a word
If Luke had done this with his Lurica Segmentata, the video couldve been titled: Roman soldier trips into the future and has to find his way back by asking his people’s descendants for directions
As a Spanish speaker if I heard him approach me in Latin. I would have first assumed he was talking to me in Aragonese, or maybe old Catalan, but the more he spoke. The more I would question which branch of the Latin tree he was from, but if he said, "Latin." I would burst out laughing and direct him to a priest.
@@Thebrothaisback you have not idea what are you talking about. As Spaniard we can understand a lot of italian speak without have learned it never because most of words have the same origins. And Spanish is a so rich language that even when we use a word for something that does not have Latin ancestry, we have a synonym or another name, with Latin origin. Spanish is not that it doesn't have as much Latin as Italian, it's that we also have other options derived from Arabic.
@@Thebrothaisback No, there is not a single language that has more influence from Latin than Spanish. The same yes, more no. And we also have words from Arabic and others. I don't know to what extent Portuguese or French can be compared, but Spanish and Italian are sister languages.
@@davidgoldman1452 your spelling is a bit off in case you care about accuracy, the proper way to write Luke would be "Λουκ" and in this case the verb "found" would have to be in the third person past tense, you have it in the first person, so instead of "βρήκα" it should be "βρήκε". Also "κάποιος" needs to be in the accusative form in this case as the action is happening toward them so "κάποιον" instead of "κάποιος" which is the nominative for someone. And lastly you're missing the article "τη" in front of latin language which is also in the accusative. All together your sentence should look like "Ο Λουκ δεν βρήκε κάποιον που μιλά τη λατινική γλώσσα"
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I''m not that good at latin but I would have been pleased to heard you speak It, if I had met you by chance! Saluti da Roma😂!
ahahah, frate', ma che ci fai a Roma xD
ahahah, ma sei pazzo xD
non è che non ci piace, è che pensiamo che tu possa essere una persona molesta, non capiamo le tue intenzioni xD
la gente se si arrabbia è perché ti scambia per qualcuno malintenzionato, perché si sentono presi in giro, perché ovvio che nessuno parla latino ma che grande che sei per averlo imparato come lingua corrente xD
You should do it again with ecclesiastic Latin
Nice!
Try it in Central Sardinia, I'm sure people there could understand you better 😎
As a native Norwegian, if a random stranger started talking to me in Old Norse, I would probably think it was just a drunk Dane.
:D Ahahahahahah :D
Ha ha Is your ancient language taught at the university, though? Just curious
@acutus. Or someone from Island.
@@kathyoneill4011 Good question, now I’m curious as well.
@@kathyoneill4011 Old norse studies are thought in the university of colorado boulder but the closest living language to Old Norse is Icelandic
You should ask catholic priests around the Vatican City. It would be interesting to see if they speak some Latin.
Catholic priestess is a bit of a oxymoron. (The plural of priest is priests. Priestess is the female form of priest.)
That would be really interesting
I dont think they gona answer in latin is a language that its only written/studied but nobody really tries to speak
@@JonGunnarssonDotA My bad. But I guess it is one of the autocorrect fails that sounds very funny :D
@Reino de Hiperbórea I bet they don't. Especially if they are relatively young and not enrolled in one of the Vatican universities.
“I’m sorry, my Latin has gone a bit rusty, haven’t used it in like 1500 years”
XD
Besides, it was the world language until only 300 years ago. c:
@@Barbarossa125 no? Dialects appeared even before rome fell, and pure latin was only spoken by the nobles and the clergyman.
@@Barbarossa125 I don't think so. It was still widely studied and used in high mass but not spoken 300 years ago.
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Bro, your fluency in Latin is mind-blowing 😱
As a time traveller he has spent three years in Ancient Rome.
As a native Latin speaker, I can confirm
what do you speak " Sword " in Latin?
@@TheMaulam12345 I would say gladius.
How do you know?
Imagine you're just sitting there and all the sudden Mr. Clean comes up and starts speaking Latin
i just died from this comment
😆😂🤣 well done!
Legit LOL
The biggest laugh I've had in weeks.
😂😂😂
I'm Italian and studied Latin for 5 years in school. Italians are not expecting tourists to speak in Latin, so initially they don't understand what language you are speaking. As soon as they hear words similar to Italian, they can understand the meaning of what you are saying but they are still not convinced that it's Latin, because nobody speaks it.
In più, il latino non si pronuncia in quel modo in Italia...
In other words, water is wet.
@@chiaraf633 in che senso scusa?
@@memedesima7953 in Italia si legge seguendo le regole di pronuncia dell'italiano, all'estero si usa la cosiddetta pronuncia restituita (per esempio, la C viene sempre pronunciata K). Se ci fai caso, dice "mag-na" anziché "magna"... Questo può aver reso la comprensione ancora più difficile
also Latin at school consists mainly in translating classic works from Latin to Italian, it is not taught as other languages where you would learn to ask for directions and so on
I'm Roman. In 2001 I was approached by an elderly Hungarian pilgrim who had gotten lost and couldn't find his logdings, run by nuns. We only were able to communicate in Latin. What a surreal afternoon. He probably got kindapped and had his organs harvested, since my Latin was rubbish
😭😭😭
Lmao
That last sentence got me wheezing harder than a lung cancer patient.
My god 😱😂
Well, at least you tried. Poor bastard is probably in the afterlife talking unbelievable amounts of shit about you but by golly, you did your best.
My Dad had to learn ancient greek at university (he studied theology). On a holiday trip to Greece he tried to communicate in this language, but no one understood him 😂
Really? Too bad. I had an impression that Ancient Greek and Modern Greek are still somewhat similar, enough to get a very simplified idea of what a person is talking about. I studied Modern Greek for one year. There was a guy in my group who once brought something in Ancient Greek and was able to read some of it with our teacher's help. All of us were A1 level at best at the time.
I think I read somewhere that modern Greeks understand around 80% of written Ancient Greek. But the pronunciation did change more significantly, making the spoken form unintelligible for the average citizen.
What you say is not true. There are very few who do not know. He may have asked very young children who are not very interested in learning ancient Greek in their twenties further than what we learn in school. However, just so that you know even today Greeks speak ancient Greek even though it is in their new form.
@@JK19791 My colleague is from Greece and I asked her if she could understand ancient greek. She said she could read and even translate it because she used to study ancient greek, but normally noone understands spoken ancient greek.
@@winterlink27 Yeah unfortunately modern greek and ancient greek aren't mutually intelligble, even the letters and pronounciation are a bit different nowadays.
Lets take a moment and appreciate how hard it is to actually speak latin. I love how you just walk up to him and speak in Latin just like it was the most normal thing to do, like if the Roman Empire was still around
Thanks very much. I didn’t prepare any of what I said; I just spoke off the cuff.
@@polyMATHY_Luke it's great u didnt mix it up with some modern italian words, despite them repeatedly insisting the modern italian word
@@polyMATHY_Luke How long did you learn latin for if I may ask?
@@polyMATHY_Lukeyou're amazing
@polyMATHY_Luke I kind of hate you for that 😂
"Where are you from?"
"I am a man of the world, sir."
Had me ROLLING LOL
Mr Worldwide
@@BigDvsRL cosmolitanus est
Local time traveler
I LOVED that!!
And that's a fact!
American? What nonsense! I can always tell a true Son of Rome when I see one.
miracle aligner that u?
@@gaius6187 Aye tis I Gaius :)
@L'Ephebe93 Damn right 🤣
I know, it's so funny to see an ancient Roman guy trying to pass for an American😄 He's not very good at pretending😁
Your covers are awesome!!!
I love the one Italian guy, when he finally understands you're speaking Latin, says, "No one speaks Latin apart from you!" Interesting experiment and damn, you're so fluid and natural speaking Latin it just sounds like any other modern, living language.
Just to mention, noone actually knows how latin language sounded.
The guys has been rude
@@SineseolThats not true.
@@Oggylv1 It is true, latin language was not used in its original form after the fall of Rome. Priests used a formal language and even that is changed a lot in the last 1500 year..
just google something about restored pronunciacion of latin
this dude should dress up as a roman and walk along acting confused like he was a roman soldier who just fell into a time warp and is now modern italy
You and I concocted the same movie (or at least hidden camera harmless prank) inside our heads!
that would be amazing
Yes, like a time traveler that’s exactly what I was thinking :)
lol exactly what i was thinking
a perfect time traveller prank!
LOL, i dont laugh like this for a while
Reminds me of the joke where the tourist goes to Rome and speaks Latin to a local who responds, "it's been a long time since your last visit!"
😂😂😂
Name of the video?
Link?
😂😂😂 Very good joke!!!
Not to mention, 2000 years XD
Who on earth is capable of speaking fluent Latin in our times? Bravo!
I think the same thing when I find people who can speak Klingon pretty much when someone's nerdy enough about something they will devote a ridiculous amount of time to mastering it even if it is completely useless
@@missprimproper1022 I did my MA in Classics but there were no speaking classes ever! So wow!
My latin teacher!!!
They do it in the Vatican all the time! There used to be an older priest and a couple of nuns who would give walking classes with no reading or writing allowed. I remember one comment was, "Even retarded kids and foreign prostitutes could speak Latin in 0 CE Rome!!!"
A proffesor at the LMU in munich holds his seminars in latin. Don't know if he's still around, but the guys was a legend
As a Spaniard who speaks a bit of Italian I'm sure they understood you but they couldn't guess why they could understand you without you speaking to them in Italian!!! Blowing minds!!!
It was a bit messy but in the end he got all the info he asked for
A Spanish friend travelled to Belgium, visited a historical fortress where they reenact a change of the guard from the times when Flanders belonged to the Spanish Crown. The whole ceremony was in ancient Spanish, but the reenactors recited the words by heart. My friend says that it was mind blowing that he could understand everything they said
Exactamente!
@@msblue1003
Was that important?
He could've just said "yeah I'm just messing with you. I'm just seeing how much Latin you understand"
Obviously the hands were missing,🤌🤌🤌
As italian (not Roman but from Milan) who learned latin in high school i would have recognized you spoke latin, and get the general meaning of what you were asking. But for sure i won't be able to answer iln Latin. Great video, i'm really impressed how fluently you speak latin.
Exactly, I think most Italians who went to a classical high school could probably understand the sense of the words
We learn Latin to read texts, not to have conversations in fact. These are not my words but J. G. Droysen's, one of the most respected figures in Latin and Ancient Greek history.
Most 4th year liceo classico students (aged 17-18) can translate a manual about war tactics but can't answer to an "how are you" bc that is not Latin's purpose.
@@crocsy1439 But it can be 👀
Interesting, because I could hardly make out a word. However, if somebody speaks Latin with Italian way of speaking, then yes, I can figure most of it out. I am from Rome, is that we are especially bad at Latin?? Or maybe just me. I speak several dialects of LISP, but maybe not my ancestor languge.
@@alphaviki7987 I mean... we would need a context where to apply it lol
You can't just ask your friend even trivial stuff like what youtube video he watches or if they like your new car using Latin, it's usage in spoken situation is very impractical
I'm not hugely surprised by the outcome, but this is the first time I've heard Latin spoken and it sounded like an actual language, rather than a torture device. Also, your mastery to hold these conversations about modern things was lovely.
Thanks very much! You’ll find a lot more on my other channel ua-cam.com/video/3wpX9DTad9c/v-deo.html
Yeah…”Bene”, hahah. The guy looked like he walked out from the fourth century.
i was waiting for the demons to show up
the difference between Latin and İtalian is about as much as the difference between Turkish and Azerbaijani 😂😂
Arent there 2 types of Latin? One of them is classical Latin, spoken by the romans during the time of the Empire. Other is ecclesiastical Latin developed and spoken by the catholic church i believe! They are quite different in their sounding.
Pitbull be like "Mr. Worldwide" but me boi Luke's "cosmopolitanus sum" here is way more superior
My favourite part! The Roman shows up 2,000 years on and says "Globalism...? Hold my wine."
Biggest Linguistic flex ever
Biggest Linguistic flex ever
Superiorer I might say
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My teacher of Latin and Ancient Greek would have replied without any problem. I remember him speaking both languages very fluenty.
Chiaro che se avesse trovato un chierico importante, o un professore di lettere e pochi altri appassionati usciti dal liceo, avrebbe avuto un colloquio quasi normale... e diciamocelo, in tutta onesta, non sarebbero neppure così rari.
@@spiderplanner9715 Beh, insomma. Io ho fatto il Classico e poi studiato archeologia, pero' di gente che sappia parlare latino fluentemente, al livello dell'autore del video, ho conosciuto forse 2-3 persone in vita mia. Se parliamo di greco antico, poi, solo il mio professore del liceo.
Anche il mio professore di latino e greco parlava fluentemente entrambe, non ho mai capito perche' non ce le abbia insegnate cosi'. Facevamo 11 ore a settimana tra le due materie, sarebbe stato assolutamente possibile, come per qualsiasi altra lingua.
I laughed when you said "sub terra" which is literally "under the earth" and they immediately recognized what you are talking about hahahaha
Yup! I know how to make myself comprehensible
"Terra" means also "ground", so it's even more clear to understand what he was searching for. ;)
Yes. sub terra, sub terraneo, sotterraneo. For us terra is planet but also the ground.
@@tommasoscandola2410 The same in Portuguese.
Subterraneo can also be subway in spanish
I love the part at the end, when he says “no one speaks Latin apart from you.” That’s just so funny to me.
Especially since it's so incredibly ignorant: tens of thousands of people speak Latin.
@@polyMATHY_Luke thats not true u cant expect us italians to speak latin
@@polyMATHY_Luke Scusa Luke ma non c'entra nulla quante migliaia di persone parlano latino al mondo, in Italia (come ovunque) nessuno si aspetta che una persona si rivolga a lui in latino.
Lui è incazzato proprio perché lo ha capito che stai parlando volutamente in latino (ovviamente lo sa che in realtà parli una delle lingue da lui elencate), quindi si sente preso in giro.
*E' questa la ragione per cui ti dice "qui nessuno parla latino a parte te", come a dire ... "se vuoi info puoi chiedermele, se vuoi prendermi per il culo... vai...".*
Non sono una persona maleducata ma nella stessa situazione mi sarei incazzato pure io perché anche se non parlo latino avrei capito che tu lo stavi parlando e mi sarebbe sembrata una presa in giro (forse se mi beccavi di buon umore ti avrei chiesto perché lo stavi facendo).
Le persone che non si sono arrabbiate probabilmente neppure hanno capito la lingua che stavi parlando, magari pensavano parlassi una lingua simile all'italiano, dato che mentre ti rivolgevi a loro si saranno accorti di comprendere alcune parole.
Sono (quasi) certo che qualsiasi italiano che ha riconosciuto la lingua si è comportato in due modi; o si è arrabbiato pensando a una presa in giro, oppure ti ha chiesto perché gli stavi parlando in latino, ciao Roberto.
@@lazios this comment deserves more likes 👍
@@polyMATHY_Luke And tens of millions, if not even more, used to do so.
I love how the first person was so chill, and patient with him.
*patient
@@Darwinek thank you :p
He was scared that he spoke like his elders 😂
That's because he didn't recognize the language. He understood it a little which confused him even more.
This video produced by an ignorant is stupid; Would the idiot presenter be able to understand someone who spoke to him in "late west saxon" ancestor of English?
Brilliant ! I think the most difficult thing is to stay "locked" on your latin even when they start speaking english to you. And when the last person almost got agressive, you still did not give yourself away. Good job !
Thanks!
That aggressive reaction was such a pity ! He should have considered himself lucky !
@@gyrocompaactually, that's how most of Romans today are. For a long time , Roma was abandoned on a population and social level. 100/150 yrs ago Rome was the poorest main city in Italy and felt hopelessly. So actual Romans are often so much "hood talker" exactly like in the video. "I don't have time to waste for your fun experiment". Obv I'm generalizing but there's a lot of this attitude down there
@@damedikid387i am Roman, I don’t know about what period you refer. But Rome in the. Whole of history was ever rich, before to take part of the reign of Italy, was entirely under the command of the pope. Right now economically talking it can be later only on Milan
@@gyrocompa He didn't have the time available to process it. He thought that some lunatic was trying to pull some kind of a joke at them...
I'm Italian. When I was a young boy, during a summer trip to Germany with my father, I remember that in our hotel in Coburg surprisingly nobody spoke english and my father did not know german. A guy in the hotel was a young university student and my father had studied latin at Liceo, they understood each other in Latin
That's awesome :D
This confirms that half Europe should be reunited under one city, one emperoer and.....oops!
You sound really old
Fantastico!!!
That's hilarious! 😂
"Are you joking with me?"
"Quid?"
Best part of the video
*DĪC ITERVM!*
is this a barbarians reference?
@@ravinosaurus Fortasse....
@@SaguntoYT understood that reference
5:04
(Although, he blew his cover of not knowing English by answering the "Where are you from?" question slightly before. - 4:41)
I'm looking forward to a «Can Greeks Understand Ancient Greek?» video in Athens
There's this one ua-cam.com/video/B2fRTS8DZ8U/v-deo.html though it's not exactly the same
@@AraboNormand Yes, I've already watched that one. But they are only asking Greeks how they do relate to Ancient Greek, not trying to communicate with them in actual Ancient Greek Language
@@user-gr5hi4um2u You're right, it still has to be done as Luke just did it for Latin.
idk if anyone has the ancient Greek fluency for that though
@@AraboNormand Oh, Luke has it for sure. Or at least, to held some basic direction asking conversation, as in this video
I think the answer would be no. I've heard Ancient Greek is more different from Modern Greek than Latin is to Italian.
When I worked in food service we had an Italian waiter, and seeing him happily chatting away with guests who spoke back in Portuguese and Spanish without any real issue was an eye opener. They sound so different but it only takes a little exposure for them to understand each other.
at the end of the day, they're all speaking in latin 😂
It is kind of like that with norwegian and the føróyskt (Torshavn / Faroe isles). We don't understand much the first 7 sentences of each other but with some focus it works pretty ok
As a Brazilian Portuguese native speaker I can say that is easy to understand Italian because of the very clear way that they pronounce things. Spanish is also very clear when it comes to phonetics if they don´t speak too fast (Mexican Spanish is very easy to understand in my opinion). However, Portuguese and French may be harder to understand because sometimes is difficult to identify the way the sound of certain words will turn out based on the way they are written, since vowels and consonants may change pronunciation.
I worked once at this pizza shop in NYC and the owner spoke Italian to his Mexican workers who spoke no English and they all seemed to understand each other pretty well
@@diegouzeda2491I can understand Brazilian Portuguese but when someone speaks European Portuguese I can't understand them at all lol 😂
Your Latin is excellent. I studied it for four years, could understand you well, but it's the first time I heard Latin spoken with an inflection of daily usage, as it was probably spoken in the streets. Long story short, your Latin brought Latin to life for me.
How do you now that his latin is excellent? Have you been in ancient Rome and listened to the true latin? His latin could be appreciated only by a mother tongue speaker. Do you know anyone still in life?
@@jordantsak7683 It is excellent in the context of my knowledge of Latin -- I could easily understand him, and it had a very credible, life-like flow. Is it excellent compared to the actual Latin spoken in ancient Rome? You are right, I have no way of verifying that. By my comparison, again, was made in the context of my linguistic knowledge: sentence structure, vocabulary, flow. We can recognize various forms of excellence without becoming time-travelers.
As an Italian who has studied Latin quite well, I almost completely agree with you, however its pronunciation is the only thing that betrays it: some vowel inflections are purely English-speaking, not to mention the sounds of "g" and "c", which always have a sweet sound in front of the vowels "e" and "i" (for example, no Latin would have pronounced "descendere" that way, he says "deskendere", which is incorrect and typically English). I take the liberty of criticizing this, though, precisely because this guy's competence is incredible, and his ability to speak and think in Latin is beyond imagination. So, you are right to assume that he somehow revived a dead language, and don't listen to the guy above: we know how our ancestors spoke Latin, very well too, and I'm almost ashamed for my countrymen appeared in this video.
@@francescodanna3934 the thing you mentioned about himenglish-speaking latin is something I saw someone say the other day, that English native speaker spreaks Latin with their english accent, not a latin-languages accent
@@francescodanna3934 I agree with you, Francesco!
And yes, maybe it's because I've studied latin too (anche se con la media del 4, lol) but I understood everything at first hearing.
And I actually watched the video just to hear his inflections and see how impactful they were in understanding. But I must say that I was pleasantly surprised there.
Having gone through 6 years of Latin in high school I could understand a great deal, but what most surprised me is how beautiful it sounded. My teachers never did sound this melodic and natural.
I had three years of Latin, and I thought my teacher spoke it very well. But compared to this guy, her pronunciations were the verbal equivalent of running in mud 😋
I had four years of high school Latin and became a linguist. It was so wonderful to hear spoken Latin, I just giggled... :0)
*That's because it's not Latin, but it's Latin pronounced as if it was Italian, so lots of the words he says actually ARE Italian (since Latin and Italian often only differ by pronunciation).*
You did 6 years in HS?! 😂
Hope atleast you graduated tho
When he said, “No one speaks Latin apart from you”, I laughed.
Yes, what a fool; there are tens of thousands of Latin speakers ua-cam.com/video/3wpX9DTad9c/v-deo.html
@@polyMATHY_Luke Not because of that. I mean, in that district of the city you must have been the only person who used Latin as a spoken language. There are people who know it, but they don’t come to random people with the words “Ignosce domini”. In that department he was right. In addition to that, you really joked with him, because you said that you don’t speak English.
@@sevchyk Still he answer rude hence he's a fool. Poly just did a test, i see no wrong with it. You guys should treat things more lightly
@@agrippa5643 The dude just figured out that the dude was laying bullshit on him. Nobody is obliged to be a role model for a test…Especially, after he said that he doesn’t speak English, Spanish, Italian. “Are you joking with me?”, was a logical question.
Irate fellow, that.
It's fascinating to notice how intimately related the romance languages are (the descendants of Latin - French, Spanish, etc.)
Fascinating hearing Latin spoken as an everyday language.
Yes, but somehow mispronounced.
@@naturamico We really don't have records or any idea how it should be pronounced. There's not much information on accents/pronunciation
@@diabolical8964 there's plenty of classical writings on the pronunciations and such, hence why we know the "R" are "rolled" for example. The ideas are there, molding the mouth movements to produce the correct sound might be the biggest problem. I believe a native speaker of a romance language, with the same amount of study and practice, would have an accent closer to the real thing than, say, a native English speaker.
@@rougewang5332 Se l'hai studiato per 6 anni, evidentemente è perché sei stato bocciato, e non è un caso. Tu parli della pronuncia ecclesiastica, o italiana, che è solo una convenzione e non corrisponde alla pronuncia storica della lingua. Luke, invece, usa la ricorstruzione molto affidabile di come il latino doveva suonare ai tempi di Cicerone
@@rougewang5332 He's speaking Restored Classical Pronunciation of Latin. You most likely learned Ecclesiastical Latin. If you read his description, he is not using the Ecclesiastical pronunciation on purpose because Italians would most likely understand.
That guy at the end had a point. I basically took from him, 'wait, you can speak Latin, but not English, Spanish or Italian? Yeah, right.' haha
Technically, English is a Germanic language not a Roman language so the English one gets a pass. Spanish or Italian *would* be possible with Latin, so yeah I can see how he got caught
@@DeluxBass probably he meant that there are not Latin native languages anymore
@@DeluxBass but you can speak english fully romanic or fully germanic. It has nearly for everything a word in the other language group.
And the grammatic is more brytonic than germanic. Not entirely of course.
Maybe if someone were a Catholic priest or theologian from some non-western country
@@jarlnils435 sorry, can you elaborate on that romanic/germanic ways of speaking english?
My grandfather used to be an engineer, and he would go all around Europe to sell his company's products. He spoke good English and fluent German on top of our mother tongue French, but one day he got to talk with a man who didn't speak any of those languages. They managed speaking to each other by using Latin that my grandfather recalled from when he was a pupil!
@krenv until the 19th century Latin was still very much the language of science, just like that of religion in Europe. Scientists of whole Europe talked Latin to each other and publicized in that language.
Cool!
Quel âge a votre grand-père?
cool story bro
Edit: like legitimately cool story bro
That's crazy I can't remember what I ate yesterday 😂
As a native Polish speaker, if a random stranger started talking to me in Old Polish, I would probably think "that guy travelled in time, I have to join him!"
Zhělěyu bo viděti kŭděžь to vŭ pravьsti istinně!
As @@veritasdeutsch6608 demonstrates, I would mistake that stranger for a tourist from somewhere like Bulgaria instead. Weren't all Slavic languages very similar a thousand years ago? Or if he spoke mediæval Polish, I would mistake him for a contemporary peasant.
To prawda!
What's old Polish? Russian?
@@mrsmith1938 Incorrect. Proto-Slavic have the same root, but they diverged ca. 600 AD.. Russian is East-Slavic, Polish is West-Slavic. 2 different language families.
It's amazing how everyone says that they don't understand you yet end up understanding and giving what you were asking for
Exactly. Hence the experiment, since I was sure I could communicate what I needed even in an unfamiliar but similar language
That's because we Italian people generally are very intuitive and we're pretty good in communication even when we're ignorant af.
We consider communication very important and we try to help when it's possible. So we can listen someone talking for a while until we catch a word that we can understand, and we can suppose the meaning of an entire argument just by it and by your vocal tone of voice and your body language.
So when they heard the names of places he was looking for, they automatically understood what was the need of the guy, also because he looked like a tourist and he was very calm.
Btw.. Many Italians are able to understand Latin because some schools teach it. Obviously the Latin we study at school sounds very different, but still..
The Latin that this guy talked, sounds very close to a mix between Spanish and polish imo. I'm not able to understand it because we never studied it in my school.
But I can understand something if I read the text, not sure why...
It took him maybe 20 seconds to find out what does he say
Would anyone understand Middle English?
Same with some old arch enemies, most bosnians say you that they dont know Serbian (yeah right), and ukrainan and russian isent similar (suuree)
Imagine if it just so happend he ran into someone who moderately understood Latin, played along, and tried to actually answer him in Latin. That would have made my day.
He should have probably stopped at younger people who studied it recently in high school
He should have gone to the vatican
Mine too. All done with a straight face.
The real pronounce of Latin Is unknown. There are only possible pronounces. Perhaps an ancient Roman would have not understood the pleasant Latin speaker.
@@ciaotiziocaius4899 Nonsense, every 30/40 yo has studied latin in middle school and highschool in italy but that doesn't mean they can speak it fluently lol and on the contrary, very young people are even less likely to know latin since it's not mandatory in middle school anymore but it's up to the teacher to teach it or not, and the only high school where it's mandatory is a specific type (liceo classico) and some rudimental basics in liceo scientifico but that's it.
"I'm a man of the world. I speak Latin." This man takes no prisoners.
"You're Roman, right?" - Luke slapped that guy in the face and he didn't even know it. (4:45)
Epico! :D
@@someguy2744 ES ROMANUS, NONNE ?
😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
"Do you speak romano"? "I SPEAK ROMANUM, GOAT!"😂😂😂
As an Italian I think the last guy is very rude, but I understand he being confused about what is happening. when he said " no one speaks Latin apart from you" I couldn't stop laughing🤣🤣🤣. So good idea and very well done, congratulations!
I busted out laughing when he said that
Mate, you have some seriously big balls to try that!! Credit to you for keeping a straight face, especially considering you speak Italian and could understand... the last bloke was getting a bit angsty, wasn't he!?
yeah he kinda told Martianus to frick off :/
Italy has well over a dozen languages natively, so this is nothing out of the ordinary or embarrassing TBH. It's no different then not knowing Mandarin in China and speaking something else, it's not _that_ unusual.
The City isn't what it used to be since that eastern cult took over
@@realtalk6195 sure, but nowadays 99.9% of Italians speak Italian either exclusively or alongside their "dialetto", there are almost no exclusive dialetto speakers. You'll never see a Neapolitan trying to push Napoletano on a Milanese, for instance, since both will speak Italian
@@PodcastItaliano oh wow, it's you!
There is a bias here Luke! Here in Roma we are so used to "Turists", particularly in the city center, their sixth sense smelled US the moment you showed up. The ὀξύμωρον of a perceived US citizen speaking something that was not English got them even more confused :D
Recognizing greek words that my language has taken as loans after decyphring the alphabet will always put that little extra fun in the joke
D'accordissimo. L'ultimo poi ha fatto la parte del preso in giro e si è arreso e fa "Nessuno parla latino a parte te. Quindi prendi il telefonino, vai su Google e cerca in latino la Basilica di San Giovanni" 😂 lì sono morto. Non so come ha fatto a tenere la serietà Luke hahahaha
"Are you messing with me?" I thought that guy might get a little rough! =^[.]^=
I agree, but isn't that part of the fun? Playing with people's expectations. It might even have been advantageous. If people had time to think about what was being said and how it was being said they might come to realise, perhaps from their school days, that this is Latin, but with the tourist expectation they are instead just flopping about for which foreign language is being spoken and at the same time as just about getting the sense of what is being said. It's that last bit which was being tested.
@@Raycheetah I'm surprised there wasn't any use of the vernacular ( or was that edited out?).
Perhaps the same experiment outside , or nearby, the University?
It's amazing how much time strangers dedicate to giving directions for foreigners. I honestly respect that.
Especially since everyone has a maps app on their phone.
Maybe they want foreigners to have a good impression of Italy, so they try to be hospitable.
We're Mediterranean people. Guest is sacred in greek and roman culture. Being in your house or in this case in your City and Nation. The G Maps doesnt work as an excuse, there are tons of reasons someone wouldn't or couldn't use it. We're so used to turists its no big deal. I speak french, spanish english and of course mothertounge Italian: I once actually just made me follow by a turist and I brought him to the place he wanted to visite and in the meanwhile we chew the fat. I has finished my errands and i said why no? I like using languages when I can.
Tip #1: Modern Romans are friendly and kind.
Be a respectful tourist and you will find nothing but great ospitlity.
We saw so much shit in the years. Girls and grown mem having bath in a 500 years old fountain monument and shit like that.
Hooligans and drunk people destroying the city center harassing our women.
If you ever meet a prejudiced roman Citizen, it is never without reason.
Be a good tourist.
We have kindness and hospitality in our DNA code.
Remember that the Romans were the only Conquistadores in hiatory to let the won nation people have its own religion, tradition and even its political internal situation as long as they paid what due to Rome, respect roman soldiera and Praetoriani and NEVER NEVER NEVER try Revolt (only the Israelis were a pain in the ass in this regard, so many revolts. Life's of Brianrian docet.
You see how are moral system sprouted such an experiment so unique in history.
So different compared to the other: British Empire and Spanish Empire.
Not to talk about before: Gengis Khan, Persia, Islam, that was just pur barbarity.
You can see the difference
@@traurigesland4622 Persians too did let conquered people keep their religions, traditions and rulers; I don't understand why you put them into "barbarians".
We are just used to it
That was really interesting.
I speak Spanish, am a bit familiar with Catalan, and while I don’t exactly actually speak Romanian I understand it and can manage to express myself if I must.
It surprised me how much Latin with that pronunciation made sense to me, actually! The root is so apparent, and it helps to have known some words like “ubi” already.
You should try this in Romania and Spain too. 😃
Romanians like to say how their language is the closest to Latin, so it would be fun to see how that goes.
I’m French with a bit of Occitan and yes.
I would think Sicilian is the closest to latin....its much older than Italian or Romanian plus Romanian has a lot of slavic influences. But I'm no expert
I just googled it for my own curiosity and it's actually Sardinian, haha
I am Romanian and I understood him quite well, actually. I wouldn't be able to answer back in Latin, but he would probably understand Romanian, too, if he speaks Latin so well. I don't speak Latin, but if I read a text in Latin, for example, I get what's all about, even though I don't understand every single word. I still understand the text. I actually understand Latin better than I understand Italian. Languages can be really funny and interesting.
The Latin is impressive, but I'm more impressed by how fit Luke is. Dude definitely didn't let himself slide during lockdown...
No real men lets himself slide, ever.
@@amjan You're a real charming fella, aint ya?
@@amjan This was the cringiest comment I’ve read in a while
@@joeywild2011 Sounds like something White Goodman would say
Wow, American acting like being fit is an anomaly....lol. You realise you're in the wrong about it too, which is why you're getting so defensive, haha
This happened to me! I was in a Latin immersion program in Italy in the summer of 2014. I got lost on my way to the catacombs and I'm from Canada, so do not know a word of Italian. I was on an all-but-deserted back street and found an elderly Italian woman. I spoke to her in Latin and she looked at me strangely, but gave me directions and I was able to understand enough (due to its similarity to Latin) to find my way!
That's pretty cool!
She is elderly but she is NOT THAT old.
It Is a mind setting question, people cannot figure out they are spoken in latin, so they dont really listen.
@@johnloman4164 true but I know people used to learn Latin back in the day. My dads a boomer and he took Latin in middle school and high school. Wouldn’t be surprised if she did too
I love that!
"Rome Gets Trolled for 6 Minutes by Its Own Language"
Underrated comment.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"We do a little trolling" as the romans would say
@@cringothebot276 everyine knows trolls were invented and loved by ancient romans
Latin is a dead language, modern Italian is a different language that depends from ancient Latin but that has undergone very heavy changes, many more than those suffered by the current English. I am Italian, and I'm not a native English speaker, but I have more issues understanding Latin that understanding ancient English. We study Latin at high school (well, it depends on the type of school you go to) but hardly people remember how to speak it.
I studied Latin for 6 years. My father was helpful as he could speak fluent Latin (and read Ancient Greek). He told me he had had a conversation once in Latin. He was in Japan in 1945 at the surrender and he met a Buddhist monk. The only language they had in common was Latin. So he persuaded me it might come in useful!
"Ma che staddì" is the perfect example of modern Roman language.
Also an example of their education.
@LegoGuy87 Stai a dire
@LegoGuy87 It's a contraction of "stai a dire", which in turn is a regionalism for "stai dicendo". The sentence translates to "what are you saying" but with a "wft" vibe to it.
@LegoGuy87 Kinda, but again it's not a generic Italian thing, it's specifically from Rome. It's a bit stereotypical: people from other regions may say "aò ma che staddì" to make their impression of a person from Rome ("aò" being the Roman equivalent of "hey").
@LegoGuy87 Since the citizens of Rome speak like if they've never been at school, instead use the correct form "Ma cosa stai dicendo?", they change the gerund verb with "sta(re) a + dire". Conjugated in the second person singular is "Sta(i) a di(re)".
As an Italian from Rome who studied Latin for 5 years I have really appreciated this video. Could you make more video like this, please?
I’m French, still practice Latin and Ancient Greek as a hobby, have lived in both countries and think his video is pathetic !
@@beignet1682 Why pathetic?
@@dancooper1 LOL. Maybe. French are entitled to their opinions.
@@raffobafforb Why? Because Latin is a dead language that is not practiced (learnt) by everybody in Europe (it’s even a problematic in education system in France, for instance - because they are cutting more and more hours).
Also to go to Rome to speak Latin sounds a/ arrogant (knowing Latin in the 21st century in Europe is a sign of social status, more or less) b/pretentious - even pupils who would study Latin, most of the time learn it by reading and writing, but rarely speaking
C - Latin was spoken/practiced all over Europe for quite some time… so why Rome? D- I’ll watch the video when he goes to Athens and speak Socrates’ Greek. I’ll be impressed.
Here are all the things I thought about while watching 2min of this video, which makes me think it’s low tier content.
@@dancooper1 Cf. au dessus de votre commentaire
"Can Italians understand Latin"
Me, an Italian: this is gonna be interesting
First dude: Ma che stai a dì?
Always me: perfect start
😂😂
Perfect start for a street brawl
Volevi dire sempre me ma l'hai tradotto in inglese e in inglese non esiste. You could have said me again or just use me
@@mihaicrisan9946 è esattamente ciò che ho fatto. Di che stai parlando?
Che cosa è always me? In Inglese non esiste lol
Sir, thank you for this wonderful video. It’s such a pleasure to see you walking around and speaking Latin, reminding Italians of their fascinating history. ❤
Well, they managed to send you on the right path, so I guess it worked :)
lol
He would’ve been better off speaking English tho
Er diaulo
Minchia stai a commentare pure i video americani, top commentatore internazionale
Sei ovunque chrisianice
Someone took the "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" a bit too seriously ;d
I actually laughed out loud at this 🤣
lmao！
He should have spoken the actual Italian roman dialect then. It would be fun. But foreign people can't understand this. At "Oh ma che sta di'" I pissed myself laughting
As an Italian who studied Latin in high school this is a blow to the heart
How?
@@kamrankhan-lj1ng In Italy there is a high school where classical languages such as ancient Greek and Latin are studied.
In France too even if it is less and less.
En Argentina quitaron de los programas de estudio el latín, hace décadas atrás lamentablemente.
Oh? Tutti fruiti. Ciao.
LOL this was hilarious. They probably thought "this dude is a time traveler!"
That said, kudos to the bro. That was insanely good.
Clearly Italians don’t speak Latin in normal life, but a lot of us study it at school. But we learn it almost exclusively in written form and we use “ecclesiastical pronounciation” (ex. etiam=eziam), so It’s also different to speak! Nice Video :)
i learned the wrong pronounciation too, but i try to get rid of it and pronounce it the correct way.
e.g. "exempli gratia", not ex.
Not to far from most people who "learn" a second language in school. If you really want to speak it properly, you have to make efforts outside of school because of how unnatural the teaching is.
Well, don't bother with it. The same is true for us, Greeks. I have the impression than people living in other countries, believe that we, Greeks or Italians, speak like our ancestors who lived... just 2000 years ago!
@@MonsieurCorbusier There was no such thing as a "wrong" or "correct" pronounciation of Latin. It all depended on the century one lived in, the speaker's social standing, educational level, geographic origin. If nowadays Geoffrey Chaucer would talk to an Anglo-Indian shopkeeper in Soho, the result would probably sound way similar. The so told "pronuncia restituta" of Latin is an academic artifact, hardly comprehensible to, say, Ennius and Saint Augustine. Yet they were both native speakers of Latin.
I love that you're speaking perfect Latin and the Italians are probably thinking "This guy's Italian sucks!"
🤣
It’s almost like Latin and Italian are completely different languages
@@bletrick3352 Its the same with German and Old German. Whenever i read or hear it, it just sounds weird and funny to me.
@@91djdj Yes but Old German is still German while Latin isn’t Italian otherwise it would be called Old Italian.
@@bletrick3352 I think Latin is the same to a Roman Italian what Old German is to many Germans. The grade of influence from other languages might be similar. Latin is just a very specific and well described ancestor of Italian. I think the first word that described the German laguage as whole was thiodisc=the language of the common people and was mentioned somewehere around 1000 AD. Before that German people didnt care "framing" their language.
I’ve never heard Latin spoken like that before. It’s so beautiful ❤
That it is! I wholeheartedly agree with Tolkien's sentiments on learning languages. It's not a stuffy thing to do, at all, especially when the language you're learning fascinates you so.
It is Latin with Italian accent.
But was the Roman accent when they spoke Latin?... It must have changed a lot in the centuries from when Romans where just a local tribe to when they become an Empire... Likely Latin changed/evolved a lot and if someone would speak Latin of the Roman origins to Romans at the time of Augustus they wouldn't understand him. On top of that I am sure the Roman settlers in the colonies would all adopt into Latin lots of local language words and expressions etc.... I am quite certain that Romans settled in Spain for a generation or two would find very hard to speak Latin with similarly settled Romans in Palestine or Syria etc
For the ordinary Roman colons there were no handy dictionaries and today internet, with so much linguistics info available as today to try to keep abreast with all this evolution
@msblue1003 it's really amazing how alive and organic languages really are.
the romans werent just a tribe before the roman empire, there were the Italic kingdoms similar to how the german peoples were hundreds of little kingdoms before becoming the HRE or modern germany/poland/austria/switzerland @@msblue1003
Currently learning Latin. This brought me great joy!
Clearly, the sequel to this should be Simon Roper in London, asking directions in Old English… 🇬🇧 😄
Ew, barbari
Chaucers English...
I bet they don't understand a word in old english😆
He'd have better luck in Scotland.
@@Miglow yup. scots are closer to old english
The guys that realized you were speaking latin made me burst out laughing with that "Ma è latino! Sta a parlà latino!"
Fact is, we italians do understand latin, even with the pronuncia restituta, it just takes that little effort in trying to understand it. Of course the first reaction is "Ma come parla questo qua?" but what confused most of them was "understanding" what you were saying without actually knowing the language.
Unfortunately a lot of us just don't give much importance to Latin, because the way it's often taught in Italy drains any passion and enthusiasm, thus making latin to be perceived as "the old boring and unnecessarily difficult version of Italian"
Grazie per i tuoi video, Luca, mi stai dando la carica per dare tutti gli esami di linguistica e filologia romanza che mi mancano ahahahahah
A che minuto fa “ma sta a parlà latino”??
I think we do understand some words, but I find really difficult understanding the sense of the sentence since we don't use cases and both the endings of nouns and verbs are very different from Italian
Mi fai rimpiangere di non aver tentato io stessa di comprendere il dialogo senza ricorrere ai sottotitoli!
In bocca al lupo con i tuoi esami!
@@coprilettodelnapoli5466 a 3:27
Most of the Indo-European languages are "unnecessary complicated" comparing to my native language.
It helps that Luke understands Italian.
He's literally helping them by repeating what they say to him back in Latin.
If a Latin speaker with no knowledge if Italian attempted this, it wouldn't turn out quite as well
I had a similar thought. I was thinking that he was helping them a lot by repeating back in Latin whatever they said in Latin, but with a questioning tone, as if to elicit some affirmation from them that yes, in fact they knew exactly what he was saying. But you make a better point, a true classical Latin-only speaker might have turned out worse. But it makes me wonder, as conquerors of such vast territories, might not that ancient Latin speaker also be familiar with other ancient languages, such as Spanish, German, Arabic, definitely Greek?
@@jkelly02 Certainly ancient greek if they were well educated. Spanish is debateable as Spanish is more of a spectrum of languages in modern times than a single unified language. Add to that that Spanish emerged from common latin.
@@Kyoptic I'd argue that spanish has more unity than german and maybe even italian (given the amount of different languages that get brushed off as "dialects of italian")
@@jkelly02 Greek definitely, it was required if one wanted to be viewed as cultured and you could get all your official stuff done in Rome itself using Greek. Other than that, it's logical to assume that despite the views Romans held toward most cultures, many learned languages or at least was familiar with them - traders, provincial administrators, governors, soldiers. But Spanish as a language didn't exist back then; if you mean the Celtiberic languages, afaik we barely know a few things about it, if you mean the Vulgar Latin spoken in Iberia later, well that's not really a question. Plus, as others pointed out, you could argue that 'Spanish' didn't even exist in 1400 - we walk right into the dialect vs language dilemma with this question.
@@sztallone415 You are correct. You remembered thar at first, it was a realm of Gallic Tribes, similar to Gaul, and Britannia, then Romanized, then Visigothized, then the Moors invaded, then centuries of Renconquista, after which, you get the Iberian Peninsula folk, a number of independent realms, two of whom, united to form Spain, then There was Portugal, and the unique Basque people as well. So the language spoken there before the Visigoth occupation, would likely been a local variant of Latin/local Gallic hybrid language, sort of like the form of Spanish spoken in various places in Mexico by the common people differs from Castilian Spanish due to Nahuatl and other languages words being mixed in.
I have been watching your videos for a while and have never come across this one before. It looks like maybe your first attempt at speaking latin to modern romans. The last gentlemen seemed prepared to give you the modern roman greeting of "Vatella pija 'nder... " if he thought you would have understood.
Its great to see how far this has come and a lot of fun to see the origins. Please keep up the good work.
That diss at the end, “I’m speaking Roman, aren’t *you* Roman”. What a flex. That guy was not having it though.
If you mess with a roman, you can get rowdy in a matter of seconds. The guy was going into that direction I can tell you. Especially because they tried to speak English and our latinist didn't flinched for a second, it's seen as a sign of disrespect
@@giorgiociaravolol1998 sì però è stato molto bravo a mantenere la calma il protagonista del video nonostante appunto stava rischiando di irritare il tipo
@@giorgiociaravolol1998 Yep. Things were heating up there. I think an italian could tell he was american by his accent but I may be wrong. The guy even made the effort to speak in english, he literally told him to take his phone and google instructions in latin LOL.
@@giorgiociaravolol1998 stava andando in una direzione? Cioè? Non c'è nulla da giustificare. È stato solo maleducato, cafone e ignorante.
@@TheFirstGroover parli del ragazzo romano? Non sono del tutto d'accordo, devi ricordarti che tu sai chi è il ragazzo che parlava in latino, e sai che stava girando un video innocente. Quel ragazzo romano però ha solo visto un turista che cercava di farsi dare indicazioni in latino, è normale pensare che voglia prenderti in giro.
As a Romanian I understood almost everything. Surprising, didn't expect it.
Love the content
gtfo with that shit, almost everything is kinda the same anyway xD show me wheres blabla, there? that way? no i dont apeak english, oh metro that way? ok thanks
I am Norwegian, speaking Italian. Italian is very different from Latin. When I hear Romanian I can hear a lot of both Italian and Latin in it.
Romania was under roman rule for a long time. Hence the name ROMAN-ia. The modern Romanian language is hugely influenced by Latin. Which was kept even though surrounded by slavic type languages.
@@sajt6619 I was under the impression the name derives from the romanian word Român which derived from latin word romanus (of the roman empire)
Plus 90% of the functioning words, 80% adverbs and 68% of the adjectives were directly inherited from latin.
With romanian and Italian sharing a 77% lexical similarity. So very heavily influenced by the roman empire
@@NNZ00 Well, jokes aside, yeah the language is similar but its not due to long lasting roman occupation's influence on its people. It's because romania was a majorly multicultural multiethnic place and in order to create a national identity around a certain language, they picked the version of latin local nobles and clergymen use to communicate, and this was what was taught to new "romanian people". It wasn't that people who lived there suddenly in buch of generations said fuck our language lets just use these latin words
"Are you joking with me?"
"... ... ... Quid?"
Quid pro quo
@@aurelius388 Chad pro quo
@@y.r._ Divertente.
Lmao, that was funny
Quid est veritas?
I love experiments of this kind. Thank you for the video. And the people who tried to help were generally nice and sweet.
I am impressed at how fluid he is in latin lol, it sounds like he speaks it in his daily life
Because he does :)
Si ma la pronuncia non è proprio corretta
He does lol. Check out the rest of the videos in this channel.
@@fabiz_strat9884 Mi spiace deluderti, ma la sua pronuncia, benché con un forte accento americano, è con tutta probabilità molto vicina a come realmente si parlava il latino classico, al contrario della pronuncia ecclesiastica che viene comunemente insegnata nei nostri licei.
@@fabiz_strat9884 ma perché hai risposto in Italiano non ti capisco XD
The last guy cracked me up. He knew you were trolling and wasn't having any of it. I was laughing pretty hard.
"latino? ma che me stai a pijà pe'r culo?!?"
“Latino cosa?”
He was answering all his English questions in Latin. If he didn’t speak English he wouldn’t respond like that.
I haven't laughed that hard in a while 🤣
Italian people: can you speak English?
The Roman guy: why do they keep asking me about the future language of one of our insignificant colonies up north?
Speak Cockney English English like Austin Powers to them.
Well at that time the people of Britain did not speak English or any germanic language though!
Claudius, actually.
@Hernando Malinche At that time the English were still Germans
It wasn't a colony under JC. Not sure if could be even considered a puppet state. He defeated some tribes and help put back a king in power.
The conquest came only under Claudius.
This was so fun. It helps me improve my terrible Latin proficiency. I'm also glad that you gave people an interesting challenge but stopped out of courtesy when the last guy became annoyed.
It's very impressive how you can speak Latin so easy and how you overcome your native accent too. I thought Latin was almost a dead language, but you have it bring back to life. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks very much. See more here: ua-cam.com/video/krNKKZa6VP4/v-deo.html
It is. There have to be people who speak latin since birth so that it stops being dead
This is so similar to Sanskrit. Just like Latin, Sanskrit was one of the 3 global languages. The last being Mandarin which is still spoken in China. Sanskrit & Latin were languages of the God and now sadly lost in time. No Indian can understand Sanskrit. Hindi has taken over. Just like Italian has taken over Italy and no one can understand Latin.
@@edwardspencer9397 Apparently both Latin and Sanskrit (and also the germanic languages) are descendants from a super language known as proto-indo-european. Also, in the Veda's there's a God named Dyauspitr which translates as sky god, in Greek it's Zeus Pater, in Latin it's Jupiter. While the spellings look different the sounds are formed very similar and they all translate to sky-god. So this proto-indo-european origin was likely the birthplace for a lot of religions too.
@@CKarmorr Agreed on that. Also few other words similar across all languages are the words we use for mother, father & sister. Dant is teeth in Sanskrit while it's dontis in latin / greek. And dental as we know it.
I like that the Roman at 3:26 recognised that he was trolling them in Latin and says so aloud.
I love their reaction! "Ma è latino. Sta a parlà latino"
Congratulations! I studied Latin in High school and your spoken Latin is mesmerizing. I could understand most of what you said without reading the subtitles however no chance most of the people would understand Latin spoken at your level of fluency :D. We don't learn how to speak Latin in school just to translate it. Try making another video by writing and see if you are more successful! Warm hugs from an Italian in Vietnam
OK. You get major Cool Credits: your English is perfect and you are an Italian in Vietnam! How cool is THAT??
No one knows how to really speak it. It's dead language, but at least we can translate and assume how it goes.
I had also studied latin, can't remembee the words anymore though. But then again, latin resembles so much of the modern languages so people should be able to have general idea what he is saying.
@@Tespri that is actually not true. There are records about the Latin language phonetic and its changes during the centuries. For example the U - V differentiation or the sound of the letter C in Roman Latin and Middle age Latin is well documented. There are also many references about how to correctly read syllables or even how to compose a poem. I am not an expert but I am sure there are plenty of lectures about the topic. Cheers
@@thetooginator153 I don't know you tell me! :D
ua-cam.com/video/Ns28oYxGURA-/v-deo.html I’d love to know your thoughts on this
I love how classical latin sounds. 😍
Same
As a Spanish speaker, it was interesting to find myself understanding him at certain points
Yo también. Se entiende menos que el italiano, pero hay palabras que se entienden.
Saludos, de Colombia :)
Eso de “vale” no sabía que era latin , cierto se entiende algo
It's funny how Spanish is more similar to Latin than Italian!
@@Ben-ek1fz Very few Arabic influences, which do not interfere in the grammar, and trivial things. It's not comparable with the influences of Latin, even the words from Arabic origins (Like, azucar, which you also use a similar word 'sugar') they have synonyms from Latin origins. English has a lot of Arabic and Persian influences.
@@leonardos2925 few but pretty damn noticeable phrases and or nouns. "Ojalá que la puerto de alcala esta cerca." pretty much any Spanish word that starts with "al"; the color "rosa" (is both Latin and Arabic).
Glorious! I particularly enjoyed the moment when that one person realised it was Latin, there must have been a moment of deep dissonance.
Definitely a "Wait, hang on a second, is this really happening?" moment
Delightful to hear Latin spoken so fluidly and naturally.
It can be very helpful to know some of the basics. A number of languages derive their wordings from Latin.
It’s beautiful.
I love your Latin pronunciation! Just like Italian! I learned Latin at school but we were taught to pronounce it with an English accent. Later, when I went to Rome, knowing it made it easy to pick up Italian, and thereafter, I spoke Latin with an Italian accent as you did. It sounds much more authentic.
"No one here is speaking Latin except you" - oh, how the mighty have fallen
Outside of church I’ve never heard Latin spoken conversationally but as an Italian speaker I understood almost everything. This man’s conversational Latin is absolutely superb.
You only understood it because it was written as well. If he hadn’t put the translation you would have only picked up a few words at most.
@@jakevachon8948 How the hell do you know what he understand, Sherlock ? You don't.
@@jakevachon8948 you got a telepathic connection with John or how do you know what he can understand and what not. You probably can't even speak italian lol
@@magnusk9724 because I know how languages work and Italians can't understand spoken Latin save for the odd word they'll catch here and there.
@@athmaid don't you think "I understood almost everything" is a bit of a stretch? Maybe in his particular case he understands Latin because he went to church a lot, but Italians can not normally understand Latin any more than French, Spanish or Portuguese speakers. The writting being there tricks you into thinking you understand what's being said.
the last guy seems to think there's a Latin Google, I wish
What's the Vatican doing these days then?
@@LuisAldamiz books?
I went to check quickly and there is actually a Latin setting but it's terrible. It's just Italian with some buttons labeled in Latin.
Theres Latin on Google translate, but its notoriously attrocious
I think he meant Latin in Google translate, but everybody knows it sucks
I studied Latin for 3 years at school.
I'm glad that I did, because it helped me understand French, and I can understand Spanish and Italian when I read them.
I love to order at those restaurants!
I am sure you can also understand my native Brazilian Portuguese in writing. As for understading the way we speak, it´s another matter since neither our Spanish speaking "cousins" cannot.
This needs to be a series. Different settings, different people. Great stuff
Definitely Greece is a must. I'd also try druid in GB.
Yes! It would be great to see what university students (above all those that study Humanities), people at the museums, Vatican priests, etc. do. They will surely laugh with you instead of having a negative response, maybe some will answer you in Latin! Now it is a good time to do it, without all the tourists.
OMG! I speak Spanish and Italian and I know some Latin words but I never imagined Latin sounded soooo good
Strangely I understood about 60% of it.
To us, Spanish native speakers and who know a little bit of the Italian language, Latin is attached to the majority of our words. It is the glue that keeps our languages together.
@@CarlosPereira-cq7yw True
Lol I speak papiamento (Portuguese dialect) Spanish and some Latin in school. This I could understand without needing Subtitles
@@hennagaijin7856 stupid comment. In Hispania (Portugal and Spain today) there were roman poets, high officials, etc. Tarraco (today Tarragona city in Catalonia, north est of Spain) was two years capital of the Roman empire.
I understood all of it and only speak English. Subtitles are the best!
It’s like they are clueless and then they realize and go “activate Latin mode” and completely understand 😂
Yes because i'm southern italian and once i hear a word spocken in latin or the same as italian i click and understand everithing
Italiano is so beautiful, I'm a Portuguese speaker, I love it!
Italiano e molto bello!
My Catholic priest says that when he is in Rome he’s able to get by without knowing italian through a mixture of Latin and French lol. You should try this experiment at the Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini church. It’s run by the FSSP, a religious order devoted to providing the Mass and other sacraments in their traditional Latin forms. Those priests should be able to carry a conversation in Latin
Nobody there understands that shit in Rome i assure you😂
@@spongebobby6027 did you not read what he wrote?
That is what I've been thinking during the whole video! He should find a Catholic priest!
@@HarmKaban Unfortunately a lot of Priests are soft now. Pope Francis is the beacon for weakness. Sadly, Most priests from my faith don’t learn Latin anymore. Much less fluent conversational Latin.
When I was in Rome, I got by with just English. I was even surprised to stumble into a guide who spoke Mandarin (she studied at Beijing university)
Your pronunciation makes you sound very comfortable speaking Latin. It sounds like it could have been spoken like that back in the day.
how can you possibly know that?
@@garyinspain It is called an opinion... which we all have - you too.
Each Century a new generation of people appear and the civilizations and trends change. Thinking about it in one perspective it's Fascinating since its the same for us rn. In 100 years, things will be alot different. The people running the world now will be gone and the young people will be the ones running the future. Hopefully
This man was a Roman in his past life lol
@@garyinspain exactly no one has spoken the languague in the open for centuries ...well only in the vatican ...
Foreign tourists have been coming to Rome for about 2500 years. And many conquerors have passed through Italy after the fall of the Roman Empire. Each with his own language. For millennia the Romans are no longer surprised by anything. Generally all of us Italians are used to understanding even if one speaks to us in Lappish or Mongolian or Swahili (I'm exaggerating to clarify the concept, but more or less it is like this). And we almost always find a way to make him / her understand us. The famous Italian gesticulation (a language with the hands) derives from this: to be understood at any cost and by anyone. A friend of mine spent a winter in a house of Lapp peasants, totally isolated from the rest of the world, managing to understand what they were saying, even without knowing a word of Lapp, and expressing himself by gestures or drawings. And he made himself understood perfectly. These Romans in the video are proof of this habits. They captured one word and that was enough to reply. The last one did not make any effort to be understood since he realized it was a joke
lol!!! As a Finn (who speaks some Italian) I chuckled at the mention of Lappish. That would be an experiment to watch..
Years ago there was a South African movie called 'Area 9'. At the time there was a joke in New York City that the story couldn't be set there because nobody would notice. Maybe the story wouldn't work in Rome for the same reason, lol.
The Brits have this too. Talking loudly with gestures in English due to empire also
Romans are no longer surprised, until Chinese tourists arrive.
I could say the same about Brazilians. We have italian blood here and culture all around. The gesticulation have new highs with us hahahaha!
I just went back and listened to some readings in Middle English, which is about half as old as Latin is, and I can barely make out every 5th or 6th word. It's pretty amazing that Italians can get the gist of Latin.
Haha that was great! I like the part when you said “I’m a man of the world”, well put. And kudos to you for sticking to the Latin all the way through👌🏼
Glad you enjoyed it!
I thought the video said American man speaking Latino to Italians in Latin Italy.. oh that would have been gold.
Their reaction to how that word is so misused would have been priceless.
That was funny when the guy says, " No one speaks Latin apart from you." This reminded me of a story of a time traveler who went forward in time and was stuck knowing only his own language.
One of those time travel stories is Thermae Romae.
Oh you mean Thermae Romae Novae? That one anime about an ancient Roman time travelling to modern Japan, knowing only Latin
There's two versions of it the Novae is, unsurprisingly, the newwest adaptation of the books. The earlier version is much much funnier, as are the two live action films.
Thought that too ahah
Yes, he was a Medieval Chinese official and ended up in modern-day Munich, didn't he?
Many years ago, on a family vacation, we got hopelessly lost late at night driving through the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. We eventually found someone to ask for directions, but they were a monolingual Italian speaker - and while, as a family, we could speak a good number languages between us, Italian wasn't one of them.
My mom rustled up her best high school Latin, and it went about as well as this - which is to say, the poor guy thought we were all very strange, but eventually was able to figure out what we were asking and with lots of gestures and a few key words give us the directions we needed.
i know English and Spanish, and have dabbled in many more. Spanish and Italian are very similar, but the vocab is different--but that's a common experience with New World Spanish. I hear spanish with "as" at the end and it mostly makes sense.
I do this with Spanish in Italy, very similar really.
@@lisashhotwife2732 and I did the same in Spain with Italian :)
It's like in this joke: -you should learn foreign languages to talk, -they knew good number languages between them and had to talk with lots of gestures anyway.
An Italians true language is body language
That is hilarous. It reminds me when at hich school we went to Greece and my professor of ancient Greek started to talk in ancient greek to our bus driver that didnt understand a word
If Luke had done this with his Lurica Segmentata, the video couldve been titled: Roman soldier trips into the future and has to find his way back by asking his people’s descendants for directions
That would have been hilarious xd
Might be the plot of a sci-fi novel xD
As a Spanish speaker if I heard him approach me in Latin. I would have first assumed he was talking to me in Aragonese, or maybe old Catalan, but the more he spoke. The more I would question which branch of the Latin tree he was from, but if he said, "Latin." I would burst out laughing and direct him to a priest.
Precisely. I was thinking if he'd gone to the Vatican he'd have been nattering all day with the priests there.
Spanish speakers act as if their language is the premier latin relation - when Italian is, and Spanish and Portuguese are not even native to Iberia.
@@Thebrothaisback you have not idea what are you talking about. As Spaniard we can understand a lot of italian speak without have learned it never because most of words have the same origins. And Spanish is a so rich language that even when we use a word for something that does not have Latin ancestry, we have a synonym or another name, with Latin origin. Spanish is not that it doesn't have as much Latin as Italian, it's that we also have other options derived from Arabic.
@@kimo_ you tell me that dont know what im talking about, then you confirm what im talking about! 🤓
@@Thebrothaisback No, there is not a single language that has more influence from Latin than Spanish. The same yes, more no. And we also have words from Arabic and others. I don't know to what extent Portuguese or French can be compared, but Spanish and Italian are sister languages.
“Polyglot prankster gets lost in Rome”
@@davidgoldman1452 Luke didn't see someone who coudl speak the latin language? I'm a fan of greek xD did I get that right?
Είναι αλήθεια
@@polyMATHY_Luke mihi est hic?
@@davidgoldman1452 your spelling is a bit off in case you care about accuracy, the proper way to write Luke would be "Λουκ" and in this case the verb "found" would have to be in the third person past tense, you have it in the first person, so instead of "βρήκα" it should be "βρήκε". Also "κάποιος" needs to be in the accusative form in this case as the action is happening toward them so "κάποιον" instead of "κάποιος" which is the nominative for someone. And lastly you're missing the article "τη" in front of latin language which is also in the accusative. All together your sentence should look like
"Ο Λουκ δεν βρήκε κάποιον που μιλά τη λατινική γλώσσα"
@@davidgoldman1452 κανένα πρόβλημα φίλε μου, χαίρομαι που μαθαίνεις τη γλώσσα μας! Συνέχισε έτσι! Είμαι βέβαιος πως θα τα μάθεις καλά