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I feel that the young lady trying to understand spoken Latin must have felt a bit like how modern day Italians feel when they meet a group of people speaking another romance language. They can't speak but can understand MOST of it. Fascinating as usual, dear polyMATHY!
It happened to me in Rome with a Brazilian tourist. I don't know portuguese but many words were intelligible and vice versa by him. With Slavic and germanic would be impossible.
As a French native speaker, when they were at the table, when I needed to read subtitles, I realized I ended up always reading the Latin or Italian ones instead of the English ones lol That being said, I think my linguistics knowledge helped me a lot too. After that, however, I had more trouble understanding and had to read the English subtitles.
It is amazing that Latin still has a high level of intelligibility to speakers of modern Latin languages. If someone spoke to a modern English speaker in old English, they'd understand very little.
Interestingly, a lot of people that comment on the Old English language videos from the Netherlands, Iceland, and Germany say that can understand quite a lot of the sentences spoken in Old English. It's just that Modern English has been so heavily Latinized and Hellenized (Greek) throughout the last millennia that makes it quite distinct from Old English. It's why I studied German for a year. I wanted to learn how 'Germanic' English would have remained had it not been for the Norman Invasion.
As a Latin teacher, this video is the best thing I could wish to be on UA-cam! You speak Latin in a very clear way, with subtitles, while showing the marvelous world of Pompeii (even with the latest restored buildings) and showing a complete Roman restaurant. My oldest students are trying to convince the school principal to organize a trip to Pompeii and I support them! Keep spreading the love for the Roman culture! :D
Good for you! Pompeii, nearby Erculano (Herculaneum) and the Naples National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) would make for a great educational school trip experience. Push for it!
They say the walls have ears, and if we anthromorphize it a bit, I would think the walls of the Pompeii ruins would be elated to hear Latin spoken on the streets again after millenia of being severely "clogged with earwax".
If you really want to impress the walls, speak Greek like a wealthy Roman tourist. It's interesting how upper class Romans used an entirely different language from their native tongue for centuries.
Absolutely amazing. If you think of the significance of what these great people have just done? This could be the first time in 2000 years, a group of people sitting down in Pompeii having dinner and conversing in Latin. Bravo 👏
Duo milia annorum fuit ex quo lapides illi et laterculi linguam creatorum audiverunt. Optime pro hoc dono tibi gratias ago. Incredibile fuit.@@MusaPedestris
@@tewkewl We could understand some words, and the familiar position of the verb. But we're speaking of a thousand years gap. We've developed language features (like the fundamental articles and prep+articles) that latin didn't have.
I'm Italian and I started a month ago my first year of high school! I already fell in love with Latin, it's so beautiful! At the moment it's one of my favourite subjects (even though it's quite difficult)!
This is just beautiful. I'm going to petition the italian government to hire and make more of latin video in historical place. I often thought that would be amazing to visit a roman/Greek temple built just like it was. Just like that restaurant is a reconstruction of an actual Roman restaurant.
Even in Welsh we get Latin words from the Roman occupation of Britain like “eglwys” “mêl” and “ffenestr” the impact of the Romans was absolutely incredible
Actually, "mêl" is Celtic. The resemblance with the Latin word comes from the fact the word in both languages has a common ancestry through Proto-Indo-European, rather than borrowing.
I’ll take a guess: ffenestr=window (almost identical in Italian), eglwys=church? (Looks like the Latin word “ecclesia”), mêl=apple? (it is called “mela” in Italian so…)
@@unknownzzz5115 Your guess isn't that bad, but is wrong, as both I and the Sais-splainer above are talking about. Whilst 'ffenestr' is 'fenestrum' and 'eglwys' is 'ecclesia', 'mêl' is from Proto-Celtic 'melis', which means 'honey'. It is unrelated to Latin 'melum', our word meaning 'apple' is 'afal' which is also a native word and unrelated to 'apple'
Dude idk how you do it. Besides the fact that you engage great in the comment section, you somehow manage to make Latin interesting to me. I’m not saying it’s dull, just that it’s something I never considered that I had any interest in, but your content really makes it a more normalized thing for me and makes me appreciate the Latin used around me all the time. Really cool stuff.
@@polyMATHY_Luke yes! Haha. Love DS9. By the way, I hear that Sardinian is even closer to Latin than standard Italian, at least based on the language families listed on Wikipedia. Ever thought of trying to speak Latin there? Thanks for the great content! Can’t forget this is free for us and a lot of work for you so I appreciate the hard work, keep it up my friend.
I am one of those oddballs that fell into Latin while helping my sons with the subject through high school. wound up getting a tutor I dug it so much. the tutor and I got through a little over half of a college text "Moreland and Fleisher" when I had to withdraw. the text had gotten to some harcore, real Latin, a letter of Marcus Cicero. I spent a coupla days on one paragraph, about 20 lines and became overwhelmed. actually that 20 line paragraph was a single sentence 20 lines long. still love dabbling in the grammar. a very structured beautiful language. I must say that my 3 years of study did not go in vain. it made me read and write and think more critically. best wishes on your Latin study. I initially secured a copy of "Moreland and Fleisher: Latin an Intensive Course" as a reference text to use in assisting my boys, and then later approached the book as a course of study. as this is a fairly modern text I found explanations less burdensome than most Latin grammars, many of which were printed in the early 20th century.
I tuoi video sono davvero uno spettacolo puro. Questa volta, un gruppo di ragazzi che chiacchierano in latino nel bel mezzo del patrimonio culturale di Pompei, semplicemente meraviglioso! Penso che ci siano davvero poche altre cose così belle e interessanti su UA-cam! Non smettere mai per favore! ❤️🙏
I just graduated high school, this is my first time seeing Latin being spoken conversationally today. I would’ve loved to share this with my Latin teacher.
Pulcherrimuuuuum!!! O quam pulchrae memoriae! Nos omnes Pompeiis! :D Praesertim mihi placuit caupona! Et inscriptiones :D Gratias, quod tam pulchram pelliculam nostrae finis septimanae fecisti!
Summō et mihi gaudiō sānē! Mīrābiliter īnstar imāginis “Saphūs” Pompeiānae etiam vidēbāris ad cēnam ad phōtographēma quod Stephanus cēpit. Et tam lepidum tempus in vīcīs antīquīs! Mox rūrsus omnēs ūnā ita faciēmus!
@@polyMATHY_Luke Ahaha, non dissentio! praesertim in hac pellicula sat instar eius videor :) Oh, non tempero, quin plura itinera faciamus! sed ah, cur tam miram et insanam faciem praebeo 5:50 ?!?!? Deliras, Marina!
didn't know that "to like" in romanian is from latin and "plăcut" is the same tense and almost the same form as latin "placuit". that's why I love the videos
It’s interesting right? I’ve no knowledge of Latin either, but speak modern Greek. All of the ‘us’ word endings in Latin for example, remind me of modern Greek rather than Italian which has a tendency to end in vowels. Latin just sounds more “related” to Greek by ear alone.
So wonderful to see you all speaking Latin in a fully ancient Roman setting... I have wondered all my life how ancient Latin actually sounded, and you have given me so much by speaking Latin so fluently... I enjoy all of your videos.
This kind of Latin was not used around the streets though, normal people would‘ve spoken Vulgar Latin. Only people who could afford an education learnt Classical Latin
Muchas gracias por difundir el latín. Soy argentino, desciendo de lombardos, normandos y germanos y se entiende sorprendentemente bien. Abrazos desde la Patagonia.
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I’m a spanish speaker who has never studied Latin, and I find it easier to understand than I thought. Some words are similar to ancient spanish words and even to some less used synonyms of actual spanish. On the other hand, speaking would be deffinetly harder but a spanish-latin conversation could be possible and get most of the points.
Spain had a rather conservative upbringing in the Latin language after Rome fell for a few centuries, they even were more conservative than the Latin speakers in Italy; that is until the Moors took over most of the peninsula. Isidor of Seville was the last classical scholar during visigothic times.
La pronunciación de las vocales en latin es mucho más fácil para nosotros los que hablamos español e italiano que para los que hablan francés o portugués.
As a Spanish speaker it's funny that I could understand so much of what was being said. I took Latin in High School, and I'm fascinated by the whole conversation. Even though I barely remember my Latin classes. I could understand the language. Guess most Romance language speakers can understand and follow along with a Latin conversation.
Latin has that fascinating effect on us Spanish-speakers. It sounds like Spanish yet also like Italian, yet it doesn't sound foreign at all. It just sounds like an older version of something much older. And essentially that's what it is.
Ok this is weird. I speak Spanish and if I only listen I pick up about 25%. If I read the subtitles (the Latin ones) I’m probably at 85% if not a bit higher. The best way I can describe it, while I’m reading Latin the Latin subtitles, and at the same listening to them speak latin, it feels instinctual. Like something familiar inside of me is being drawn out. “I’ve been here before”.
years ago, in Italy, people tried to teach Latin as if it were a normal foreign language. Even today there are some very famous texts with which to learn Latin as if it were a spoken language. I studied Latin in high school and we talked it in class with the Latin and Greek teacher.
I don't even speak Italian, let alone any romance language or Latin, but I do enjoy these videos to see modern people see and hear having conversations in a language that somehow intrigues lots of us. Well done👏
I'm just an Italian engineering student, did some latin in high school and I could understand every part of this video without even looking at the subtitles. I speak three Romance languages though: Italian, Spanish and Romagnolo (a northern Italian dialect)
Es muy raro como si entiendo perfectamente a veces, pero otras veces no entiendo absolutamente nada, de igual forma me da gusto que el Latin sigue vivo de alguna manera u otra.
Também entendo algumas coisas, mas algumas palavras bem recorrentes como "tibi", "etiam" e outras quebram a, digamos, compreensão natural da língua. Aí é necessário entendimento e interpretação em latim propriamente dito para compreender o que se diz
A rare original idea to speak latin in a magic place like Pompei It should be more studied in schools It Is not only the language of a culture which shaped western world but an incredible mental exercise based on latin language logic
Nosotros los que hablamos derivados de la lengua Latín, somos los que deberíamos que saberlo o por lo menos tenerlo en nuestras escuelas o colegios, para aprende de donde viene nuestro idioma. Pueda que esté «muerta» pero es por lo mismo que no se enseña y por lo tanto no se practica; y no se habla.
How I wish that Italian schools could make the learning of the Latin language this interesting and active. I'm attending the fifth year of Liceo and latin has always been my most hated subject due to its grammatical hostilities. Translating old texts can be so difficult sometimes. Watching this video made me realise how much fun could it be, being actually able to use the language. It's time to renovate our old methods!
Language is the expression of thought and reasoning, and watching and listening people speaking Latin in Pompeii while visiting these places was a very fascinating insight into who were the people walking those same streets back far into the mists of time.
Here in Sweden we had a TV show called “Fråga Lund” (Ask the professors). One audience member asked if we can really know how Latin was pronounced. The professor fielding the question immediately switched to Latin, and went into a 5 minute lecture amounting to “Yes” 😊
Ma non ci credo, conosco Claudia! Abbiamo studiato cinese insieme a Beijing alla Yuyan Daxue (BLCU) nel 2007 e la trovo qui nel tuo video Luke :) Fantastic video as always!
I was in Caupona when I was there. I specifically headed there to appreciate their recreations of ancient Roman cuisine! It was a lot of fun, except since was the only one at my table, a bit lonely. I would have loved to share a table with some others! Like these folks!
@2:14, Claudia responded to you in Spanish at this point. I also noticed that "mihi nomen est" was pronounced as "mi nomen est" which sounded more like Spanish "mi nombre es". Making Latin conversational and basic will help bring all kinds of speakers to want to learn again.
Agreed! Yes, she spontaneously responded in Spanish too which was great. Spoken Latin can sound a lot like Spanish to Italians, so if they know some Spanish they feel like they should respond in Spanish.
@@polyMATHY_Luke , Awesome. I didn't know that but it makes sense. Indeed Spanish can sound like Latin due to the sibilant s endings, conjugated verbs, and 5 simple vowels. Why did y'all say "mi" instead of "mihi"? Was this an informal contraction when speaking Latin? Most likely that's how Spanish inherited mi from mihi.
Really cool. Surprisingly I was able to understand 90% of all you and your friends said, even if I never studied it, but it sounded amazingly close to Italian.
The fact that as an Italian I did not have to look at the subtitles to understand what they were saying even if it’s only been two years since I started learning Latin shocked me- like I didn’t even notice until I was like “Oh, there’s also subtitles?”
It's amazing to hear another language being spoken. Truly mind blowing. I took spanish for 7 years through 7th grade to 12th, and a year in college, but hardly anything ever stuck. It didn't help that I didn't have much interest in learning the language, but it was still pretty darn difficult.
That is straight up the raddest idea for a restaurant I've seen in a long time. Theming can often times get distracting and tacky to a degree, but this place looks friggin amazing. Hope to visit some day!
Luke is very interested in phonology/pronunciation and has put a lot of effort into having a good accent. It is possible for anyone with enough time and effort to learn to pronounce another language with very little accent :-)
I'm from Portugal and studied latin translation as well in highschool but never heard it being spoken fluently in real situations and contexts. This is so magical to me. Thanks for sharing!
I have only recently discovered the channel. As a Hungarian, I understand a few words of Latin, as the Romans had provinces in our region. There's a train station, named Aquincum, after the ancient city of the same name. There are lots of ruins to see. I have never heard Latin be spoken fluently before, it's probably the most beautiful language.
I’m surprised by how much Latin I can understand just because of my classical music training in which I sang quite a lot of Latin text, ranging from liturgical texts to the poetry of Carmina Burana as presented in Carl Orff’s masterwork (along with some Middle German!). However, I am absolutely unable to speak Latin myself. Likewise with other languages I studied, by the end of the course I was much more proficient in understanding the language spoken to me than I was in speaking the language myself. Ah, such are the problems associated with learning a language in high school and university.
You guys should have dinner together in a busy restaurant. Having great conversation in latin while joking and having a great time will have people amazed and heads turning! Haha
I have started learning Italian, about a month and a half ago, one of the interesting things i learned is that we shouldn't only be offering Spanish, and French in schools, but Latin and Italian first. Latin is the basis of all romance languages, and Italian came directly from Latin and all other romance languages from Italian......teach Latin and Italian and they unlock the other languages to be learned and understood easier.......wish I had known that much earlier in life.
I did Latin in school 50 years ago but only managed a few months ago to get to Italy and Pompeii. It was "mirabile visu" to see things like Cave Canem engraved on a stone in a house there. I am now retired and rekindling my love of languages. I find that my Latin (and ancient Greek) studies 50 years ago are helping me with my modern day French, Italian, Spanish and German languages because they all have aspects of conjugation, declension and agreement. Vivat Latin!
Gotta say as a Portuguese it's so nice to hear Latin, it's sounds so well and beautiful. I wish it was spoken as an official language somewhere because its a shame such a beautiful language not being used
I'm genuinely interested in learning Latin, and you've sold me well on the specific ancient(?) dialect of Latin. Do you have any resources recommended for a novice who wishes to achieve a similar fluency as yourself? Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt
"Lingua latina per se illustrata" is often suggested as a start. The book is entirely in latin, but structured in increasing difficulty - the first chapter is as simple as 'see spot run,' but growing in vocabulary and grammatical complexity as you work through the book.
Ciao Mi chiamo Marci. Sono ungharese e studio italiano da un anno. Ho appena trovato il tuo canale dall' Italia antica. I tuoi video sono molto interssanti! Congratulazione!
What a fun video! I really enjoyed this. Thank you for putting this out there. It must be fun to go read ancient writings in a historic part of the world.
I enjoyed this one more than the Rome's video. Not because the other people were somewhat rude in some cases, but this one has a nicer "showcase" so to speak. Thanks for sharing! ♥️
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The word oro in Spanish means gold, I think, does it have the same meaning in Latin? I didn't catch the translation
I feel that the young lady trying to understand spoken Latin must have felt a bit like how modern day Italians feel when they meet a group of people speaking another romance language. They can't speak but can understand MOST of it. Fascinating as usual, dear polyMATHY!
Grazie mille, Mattia! 😃
It happened to me in Rome with a Brazilian tourist. I don't know portuguese but many words were intelligible and vice versa by him. With Slavic and germanic would be impossible.
As a French native speaker, when they were at the table, when I needed to read subtitles, I realized I ended up always reading the Latin or Italian ones instead of the English ones lol
That being said, I think my linguistics knowledge helped me a lot too.
After that, however, I had more trouble understanding and had to read the English subtitles.
@@lucaschiantodipepe2015 with Germanic, yes. But slavic languages are arguably even closer than the romance languages
@@polyMATHY_Luke "Thanks a thousand, Mattie!"?
It is amazing that Latin still has a high level of intelligibility to speakers of modern Latin languages. If someone spoke to a modern English speaker in old English, they'd understand very little.
Yes, I am surprised to be able to understand quite a lot.
It depends. Simple and slowly spoken sentences in Old English can be surprisingly intelligible.
we need to upkeep Old English in the same way we do Latin!
As Luke said, she had already studied Latin in high school, so, even though she never spoke or heard it before, she was advantaged
Interestingly, a lot of people that comment on the Old English language videos from the Netherlands, Iceland, and Germany say that can understand quite a lot of the sentences spoken in Old English. It's just that Modern English has been so heavily Latinized and Hellenized (Greek) throughout the last millennia that makes it quite distinct from Old English. It's why I studied German for a year. I wanted to learn how 'Germanic' English would have remained had it not been for the Norman Invasion.
As a Latin teacher, this video is the best thing I could wish to be on UA-cam! You speak Latin in a very clear way, with subtitles, while showing the marvelous world of Pompeii (even with the latest restored buildings) and showing a complete Roman restaurant. My oldest students are trying to convince the school principal to organize a trip to Pompeii and I support them! Keep spreading the love for the Roman culture! :D
Wonderful! Thanks for the comment
You should write that in latin ;)
@@2hug Hahaha, yeah, but writing/speaking Latin is on a whole other level. ;) Sometimes I comment on Polýmathy's videos in Latin though! :D
Good for you! Pompeii, nearby Erculano (Herculaneum) and the Naples National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) would make for a great educational school trip experience. Push for it!
Mirum! Gratias ad comment@@2hug
I tested my Latin in a German village by demanding cattle and grain as tribute. They gave it to me, but then ambushed me in the forest.
They say the walls have ears, and if we anthromorphize it a bit, I would think the walls of the Pompeii ruins would be elated to hear Latin spoken on the streets again after millenia of being severely "clogged with earwax".
That's exactly what I was thinking
And cat piss lol. Place smells like my aunt's house.
What a beautiful way to put it. Somehow it was very poignant and evocative
If you really want to impress the walls, speak Greek like a wealthy Roman tourist. It's interesting how upper class Romans used an entirely different language from their native tongue for centuries.
@@RJStockton rome spoken ilirian ALBANIAN...................AND TILL 1920 ATHENS HAS SPOKEN ALBANIAN...................!!!.............ua-cam.com/video/xr4iAv-gYv8/v-deo.html
un americano che divulga il latino , grandioso ...penso che noi gli italiani prima o poi un premio a quest'uomo glielo daremo
Grazie, ma ho già il premio! il fatto che posso vivere in Italia
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Absolutely amazing. If you think of the significance of what these great people have just done? This could be the first time in 2000 years, a group of people sitting down in Pompeii having dinner and conversing in Latin. Bravo 👏
Thank you for your beautiful comment! :-) It was a lot of fun. We actually speak Latin everyday!
@@MusaPedestris That's absolutely amazing!
Duo milia annorum fuit ex quo lapides illi et laterculi linguam creatorum audiverunt. Optime pro hoc dono tibi gratias ago.
Incredibile fuit.@@MusaPedestris
You should try to speak Latin in Sardinia, since Sardinian is considered the closest living language to Latin.
We wouldn't understand it anyway
@@ZupTepi why? Italian speakers seem to understand some.
@@ZupTepi I think you'd be surprised
@@tewkewl We could understand some words, and the familiar position of the verb. But we're speaking of a thousand years gap. We've developed language features (like the fundamental articles and prep+articles) that latin didn't have.
One day!
I'm Italian and I started a month ago my first year of high school! I already fell in love with Latin, it's so beautiful! At the moment it's one of my favourite subjects (even though it's quite difficult)!
This is just beautiful. I'm going to petition the italian government to hire and make more of latin video in historical place.
I often thought that would be amazing to visit a roman/Greek temple built just like it was. Just like that restaurant is a reconstruction of an actual Roman restaurant.
Fantástica idea. Le felicito !!
Even in Welsh we get Latin words from the Roman occupation of Britain like “eglwys” “mêl” and “ffenestr” the impact of the Romans was absolutely incredible
Mae mêl yn gair Cymraeg - os o Lladin, bydden ni'n dweud fe fel 'mil' fel yn Lladin.
Actually, "mêl" is Celtic. The resemblance with the Latin word comes from the fact the word in both languages has a common ancestry through Proto-Indo-European, rather than borrowing.
Oh damn do’n i ddim yn gwybod hynny! Dyma pam mae ieithoedd yn mor ddiddirol
I’ll take a guess: ffenestr=window (almost identical in Italian), eglwys=church? (Looks like the Latin word “ecclesia”), mêl=apple? (it is called “mela” in Italian so…)
@@unknownzzz5115 Your guess isn't that bad, but is wrong, as both I and the Sais-splainer above are talking about. Whilst 'ffenestr' is 'fenestrum' and 'eglwys' is 'ecclesia', 'mêl' is from Proto-Celtic 'melis', which means 'honey'. It is unrelated to Latin 'melum', our word meaning 'apple' is 'afal' which is also a native word and unrelated to 'apple'
Dude idk how you do it. Besides the fact that you engage great in the comment section, you somehow manage to make Latin interesting to me. I’m not saying it’s dull, just that it’s something I never considered that I had any interest in, but your content really makes it a more normalized thing for me and makes me appreciate the Latin used around me all the time. Really cool stuff.
Very kind! (Have I told you I love your DS9 reference account name?) I'm really glad you like the content. Much much more to come!
@@polyMATHY_Luke yes! Haha. Love DS9.
By the way, I hear that Sardinian is even closer to Latin than standard Italian, at least based on the language families listed on Wikipedia. Ever thought of trying to speak Latin there? Thanks for the great content! Can’t forget this is free for us and a lot of work for you so I appreciate the hard work, keep it up my friend.
@@cicolas_nage I'm sure he wouldn't regret it. Saw some photos online, it has to be one of the most beautiful places on Earth!
I don't think they speak Latin in the Gamma Quadrant...
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 why?
Being a native portuguese speaker, it's frighteningly easy to understand Latin. I just booked classes, and I'll be fluent in no time. I'm determined.
@Diogo MM same here... it is easy! Classes would be so awesome!
frighteningly easy? try translating Cicero
@@marcuscicero9587 most people don't want to become translators
I am one of those oddballs that fell into Latin while helping my sons with the subject through high school. wound up getting a tutor I dug it so much. the tutor and I got through a little over half of a college text "Moreland and Fleisher" when I had to withdraw. the text had gotten to some harcore, real Latin, a letter of Marcus Cicero. I spent a coupla days on one paragraph, about 20 lines and became overwhelmed. actually that 20 line paragraph was a single sentence 20 lines long. still love dabbling in the grammar. a very structured beautiful language. I must say that my 3 years of study did not go in vain. it made me read and write and think more critically. best wishes on your Latin study. I initially secured a copy of "Moreland and Fleisher: Latin an Intensive Course" as a reference text to use in assisting my boys, and then later approached the book as a course of study. as this is a fairly modern text I found explanations less burdensome than most Latin grammars, many of which were printed in the early 20th century.
@@marcuscicero9587 I'll keep your experience in mind! Thank you :)
I'll might save Cicero for later after your advice
I tuoi video sono davvero uno spettacolo puro. Questa volta, un gruppo di ragazzi che chiacchierano in latino nel bel mezzo del patrimonio culturale di Pompei, semplicemente meraviglioso! Penso che ci siano davvero poche altre cose così belle e interessanti su UA-cam! Non smettere mai per favore! ❤️🙏
Molto gentile, Rolly! Grazie!
I just graduated high school, this is my first time seeing Latin being spoken conversationally today. I would’ve loved to share this with my Latin teacher.
I've never before heard this good Italian/Latin pronunciation from Americans 😳😳
Then the internment camps for Italian Americans in America during WW2 was successful.
Vesuvius: Quid? Haven't heard that in a while
Also Vesuvius: *Im gonna do what's called a pro-gamer move*
@Koroljeva (To Vesuvius): "And whose fault is that, hm?"
I'm from Gran Canaria and I've had enough with active volcanoes lol, might visit Pompeii someday.
It must be an incredible experience to read the original writings.
Pulcherrimuuuuum!!! O quam pulchrae memoriae! Nos omnes Pompeiis! :D Praesertim mihi placuit caupona! Et inscriptiones :D Gratias, quod tam pulchram pelliculam nostrae finis septimanae fecisti!
Summō et mihi gaudiō sānē! Mīrābiliter īnstar imāginis “Saphūs” Pompeiānae etiam vidēbāris ad cēnam ad phōtographēma quod Stephanus cēpit. Et tam lepidum tempus in vīcīs antīquīs!
Mox rūrsus omnēs ūnā ita faciēmus!
@@polyMATHY_Luke Ahaha, non dissentio! praesertim in hac pellicula sat instar eius videor :) Oh, non tempero, quin plura itinera faciamus! sed ah, cur tam miram et insanam faciem praebeo 5:50 ?!?!? Deliras, Marina!
Hahae, nōn īnsānam! cūriōsam dīcam! 😃
@@polyMATHY_Luke curiosa fui!! est maxime interessante vobiscum versari et de pulcherrimis rebus ut de linguis colloqui! 😍
didn't know that "to like" in romanian is from latin and "plăcut" is the same tense and almost the same form as latin "placuit". that's why I love the videos
Goes for a lot of things..
Futuit* for example :D
@@empyrionin is futut. I know a lot of them because I'm native to romanian
Well it's ROMANian for a reason
Man that was surprising. I'm Greek and I honestly understand more when you guys speak Latin than Italian.
It’s interesting right? I’ve no knowledge of Latin either, but speak modern Greek. All of the ‘us’ word endings in Latin for example, remind me of modern Greek rather than Italian which has a tendency to end in vowels. Latin just sounds more “related” to Greek by ear alone.
@@obabas80 also ζάχαρη and μέλι. It was surprisingly understandable and I speak neither Latin nor Italian
@@mcds6307 sugar is from sanskrit, the other is indo european
Are there many Latin loanwords in Greek? I know Roman law for many centuries was in Greek but with tons of Latin loanwords.
Incredible. Wonderful to see Latin come alive in everyday conversation and the history of Pompeii.
Time traveler and disaster survivor Latin man revisits his own home.
“EMOTIONAL”
So wonderful to see you all speaking Latin in a fully ancient Roman setting... I have wondered all my life how ancient Latin actually sounded, and you have given me so much by speaking Latin so fluently... I enjoy all of your videos.
This kind of Latin was not used around the streets though, normal people would‘ve spoken Vulgar Latin. Only people who could afford an education learnt Classical Latin
I can understand what they are saying In Latin about like 50 percent of the time it’s so insane to me i absolutely love love languages such art
Siiiiii se logra entender casi que la mitad, es muy increíble :333
This is absolutely wonderful. Pure gold, again!
Muchas gracias por difundir el latín. Soy argentino, desciendo de lombardos, normandos y germanos y se entiende sorprendentemente bien. Abrazos desde la Patagonia.
I’m a spanish speaker who has never studied Latin, and I find it easier to understand than I thought. Some words are similar to ancient spanish words and even to some less used synonyms of actual spanish. On the other hand, speaking would be deffinetly harder but a spanish-latin conversation could be possible and get most of the points.
True
Spagnolo = latino
Spain had a rather conservative upbringing in the Latin language after Rome fell for a few centuries, they even were more conservative than the Latin speakers in Italy; that is until the Moors took over most of the peninsula. Isidor of Seville was the last classical scholar during visigothic times.
La pronunciación de las vocales en latin es mucho más fácil para nosotros los que hablamos español e italiano que para los que hablan francés o portugués.
It's an absolute joy to watch this video. Real conversations in Latin with subtitles (I'll learn from those) in such a fantastic place. Awesome!
Man, that level of fluency. !
0:47 Sanskrit: Mama nāma stephano asti
When we (a group of Mexicans) visited Rome and Venice, we spoke Spanish, the Italiens replied in Italian - and we understood each other just well.
Of course, because they are Italians and Italian is the language they speak.
🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
As a Spanish speaker it's funny that I could understand so much of what was being said. I took Latin in High School, and I'm fascinated by the whole conversation. Even though I barely remember my Latin classes. I could understand the language. Guess most Romance language speakers can understand and follow along with a Latin conversation.
Latin has that fascinating effect on us Spanish-speakers. It sounds like Spanish yet also like Italian, yet it doesn't sound foreign at all. It just sounds like an older version of something much older. And essentially that's what it is.
Ok this is weird. I speak Spanish and if I only listen I pick up about 25%. If I read the subtitles (the Latin ones) I’m probably at 85% if not a bit higher.
The best way I can describe it, while I’m reading Latin the Latin subtitles, and at the same listening to them speak latin, it feels instinctual. Like something familiar inside of me is being drawn out. “I’ve been here before”.
All of us, native Romance language speakers, carry the Latin linguistic DNA in our neurons.
Seus vídeos são riquíssimos, um verdadeiro tesouro para quem quer aprender Latim. Thank you so much!!
I had to get Latin, Italian and English in this video being a native Spanish speaker. I love you all!
years ago, in Italy, people tried to teach Latin as if it were a normal foreign language. Even today there are some very famous texts with which to learn Latin as if it were a spoken language. I studied Latin in high school and we talked it in class with the Latin and Greek teacher.
I don't even speak Italian, let alone any romance language or Latin, but I do enjoy these videos to see modern people see and hear having conversations in a language that somehow intrigues lots of us. Well done👏
I'm just an Italian engineering student, did some latin in high school and I could understand every part of this video without even looking at the subtitles.
I speak three Romance languages though: Italian, Spanish and Romagnolo (a northern Italian dialect)
Es muy raro como si entiendo perfectamente a veces, pero otras veces no entiendo absolutamente nada, de igual forma me da gusto que el Latin sigue vivo de alguna manera u otra.
Et yo egual
Exactamente!
Também entendo algumas coisas, mas algumas palavras bem recorrentes como "tibi", "etiam" e outras quebram a, digamos, compreensão natural da língua. Aí é necessário entendimento e interpretação em latim propriamente dito para compreender o que se diz
A rare original idea to speak latin in a magic place like Pompei It should be more studied in schools It Is not only the language of a culture which shaped western world but an incredible mental exercise based on latin language logic
Nosotros los que hablamos derivados de la lengua Latín, somos los que deberíamos que saberlo o por lo menos tenerlo en nuestras escuelas o colegios, para aprende de donde viene nuestro idioma. Pueda que esté «muerta» pero es por lo mismo que no se enseña y por lo tanto no se practica; y no se habla.
How I wish that Italian schools could make the learning of the Latin language this interesting and active. I'm attending the fifth year of Liceo and latin has always been my most hated subject due to its grammatical hostilities. Translating old texts can be so difficult sometimes. Watching this video made me realise how much fun could it be, being actually able to use the language. It's time to renovate our old methods!
Language is the expression of thought and reasoning, and watching and listening people speaking Latin in Pompeii while visiting these places was a very fascinating insight into who were the people walking those same streets back far into the mists of time.
Latin seems so strong and direct such as German. Perhaps culturally, that's evy the two butted heads. But alas, Latins where no match for them.
That italian-latin transition was so smooth if I didn't know anything about either I wouldn't notice :D
I studied Latin in high school. Now I wish that instruction included conversation. I would have learned so much more.
Very nice editing on this video also!
Here in Sweden we had a TV show called “Fråga Lund” (Ask the professors). One audience member asked if we can really know how Latin was pronounced. The professor fielding the question immediately switched to Latin, and went into a 5 minute lecture amounting to “Yes” 😊
I love it!
This is the first time I've ever heard Latin being spoken naturally... Thank you so much... I've wondered for years what it would sound like!
Thanks! Aww my other channel ScorpioMartianus for more: ua-cam.com/video/XR9QkckU1ko/v-deo.htmlsi=iDSHdSdyTgPNFDRJ
Proof that Italian speakers are the Real Latin people as was always known but too often forgotten. Great video.
"Egō sum Italūs, Romanūs!" 💅💅
I felt his haughtiness cause he's pure hahahah good!
Ma non ci credo, conosco Claudia! Abbiamo studiato cinese insieme a Beijing alla Yuyan Daxue (BLCU) nel 2007 e la trovo qui nel tuo video Luke :)
Fantastic video as always!
I only have a basic understanding of Italian but I was able to understand much more than I had thought, great video!
Thanks for watching! Very cool channel you have.
I was in Caupona when I was there. I specifically headed there to appreciate their recreations of ancient Roman cuisine! It was a lot of fun, except since was the only one at my table, a bit lonely. I would have loved to share a table with some others! Like these folks!
Latin the original ❤️❤️
Very pleased you are keeping the ancient Latin language alive! Bravo! Se Benediga
@2:14, Claudia responded to you in Spanish at this point. I also noticed that "mihi nomen est" was pronounced as "mi nomen est" which sounded more like Spanish "mi nombre es".
Making Latin conversational and basic will help bring all kinds of speakers to want to learn again.
Agreed! Yes, she spontaneously responded in Spanish too which was great. Spoken Latin can sound a lot like Spanish to Italians, so if they know some Spanish they feel like they should respond in Spanish.
@@polyMATHY_Luke , Awesome. I didn't know that but it makes sense. Indeed Spanish can sound like Latin due to the sibilant s endings, conjugated verbs, and 5 simple vowels.
Why did y'all say "mi" instead of "mihi"? Was this an informal contraction when speaking Latin? Most likely that's how Spanish inherited mi from mihi.
Really cool. Surprisingly I was able to understand 90% of all you and your friends said, even if I never studied it, but it sounded amazingly close to Italian.
The fact that as an Italian I did not have to look at the subtitles to understand what they were saying even if it’s only been two years since I started learning Latin shocked me- like I didn’t even notice until I was like “Oh, there’s also subtitles?”
It's amazing to hear another language being spoken. Truly mind blowing. I took spanish for 7 years through 7th grade to 12th, and a year in college, but hardly anything ever stuck. It didn't help that I didn't have much interest in learning the language, but it was still pretty darn difficult.
Davide, Linguriosa and you are the best!!
That is straight up the raddest idea for a restaurant I've seen in a long time. Theming can often times get distracting and tacky to a degree, but this place looks friggin amazing. Hope to visit some day!
1:10 his pronunciation is absolutely perfect how can an American speak Italian like this
Se non sbaglio lui ha origini italiane
Suoi genitori sono Italiani.
@@jackscara3902 no, i suoi nonni paterni erano italiani, lui ha imparato l'italiano da adulto
@@jackscara3902 Yes, but as far as I know he learned Italian only as an adult.
Luke is very interested in phonology/pronunciation and has put a lot of effort into having a good accent. It is possible for anyone with enough time and effort to learn to pronounce another language with very little accent :-)
I'm from Portugal and studied latin translation as well in highschool but never heard it being spoken fluently in real situations and contexts. This is so magical to me.
Thanks for sharing!
Waiting for "US guy speaking Old Tupi with Brazilians".
Thank you so so much for sharing these videos...Pompei my next destination and Latin my next language to learn. Thanks again.
Finally we got to see you and Marina in a collab!
Happy to hear that! 🙂We already did some Lives together on Scorpio Martianus and some short videos in my channel! And there will be more 🙂
Ci sono stato il mese scorso quando ho visitato Pompei, davvero un buon ristorante! Grazie per avermelo fatto scoprire 😀
Poly, have you ever heard Duolingo's Latin pronunciation? Is it "authentic"? Would LUUUV a vid on that deal.
That heavy english accent made me drop it lol
It's pretty meh. No attempt to reflect vowel length for instance.
That's the first time i've ever heard someone adress Luke Ranieri as Poly ever in the comment section. Curious.
@@guardianofthehill He's a Polymath. 💯
@@thomashughes4859 I know, but using the abreviation "Poly" like a nickname is just something rather unique. Not bad or weird, just unique.
I have only recently discovered the channel. As a Hungarian, I understand a few words of Latin, as the Romans had provinces in our region. There's a train station, named Aquincum, after the ancient city of the same name. There are lots of ruins to see. I have never heard Latin be spoken fluently before, it's probably the most beautiful language.
That’s a sweet poem near the end.
“Lovers, like bees, enjoy a life as sweet as honey.”
It is, I thought the exact same thing . Love it.
When will we enjoy a meeting between Polymathy and Metatron?
That would be righteous!
I hope so one day! He's a great fellow
@@polyMATHY_Luke he is as of this comment spending some time in the South of the US. (Metetron )
This is very satisfying to watch. Bravo 👏
I’m surprised by how much Latin I can understand just because of my classical music training in which I sang quite a lot of Latin text, ranging from liturgical texts to the poetry of Carmina Burana as presented in Carl Orff’s masterwork (along with some Middle German!). However, I am absolutely unable to speak Latin myself. Likewise with other languages I studied, by the end of the course I was much more proficient in understanding the language spoken to me than I was in speaking the language myself. Ah, such are the problems associated with learning a language in high school and university.
This so great to watch wow the talents..I studied Latin in school so it brings back memories..we read the comic tin tin in Latin
I can't believe I missed that restaurant when I went to Pompeii. 😭
You guys should have dinner together in a busy restaurant. Having great conversation in latin while joking and having a great time will have people amazed and heads turning! Haha
We have! It's fun.
I have started learning Italian, about a month and a half ago, one of the interesting things i learned is that we shouldn't only be offering Spanish, and French in schools, but Latin and Italian first. Latin is the basis of all romance languages, and Italian came directly from Latin and all other romance languages from Italian......teach Latin and Italian and they unlock the other languages to be learned and understood easier.......wish I had known that much earlier in life.
The Greeks also use the word Ego (Εγώ) today, but it means "I" instead of "I am".
It's marvellous to hear spoken latin in 21st century
Beautiful video as always. Grazie
Thank you, marvellous.Did the walls speak back after 2000 years .
That's a nice surprise, to know Pompeii people still enjoy eating volcano ash covered food 2000 years old
No es difícil entender el Latín si hablas Español, especialmente porque la pronunciación de uds. es clara.
I did Latin in school 50 years ago but only managed a few months ago to get to Italy and Pompeii. It was "mirabile visu" to see things like Cave Canem engraved on a stone in a house there. I am now retired and rekindling my love of languages. I find that my Latin (and ancient Greek) studies 50 years ago are helping me with my modern day French, Italian, Spanish and German languages because they all have aspects of conjugation, declension and agreement. Vivat Latin!
Lingua latina optima est.
One of the more fascinating videos I have seen in a LONG time! Thanks!
Multas gratias vobis! “Latin is a vivacious, spoken language,” Ita! Verum est!! :)
Est, hercle!
Est!
Gotta say as a Portuguese it's so nice to hear Latin, it's sounds so well and beautiful. I wish it was spoken as an official language somewhere because its a shame such a beautiful language not being used
I'm genuinely interested in learning Latin, and you've sold me well on the specific ancient(?) dialect of Latin. Do you have any resources recommended for a novice who wishes to achieve a similar fluency as yourself?
Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt
"Lingua latina per se illustrata" is often suggested as a start. The book is entirely in latin, but structured in increasing difficulty - the first chapter is as simple as 'see spot run,' but growing in vocabulary and grammatical complexity as you work through the book.
@@vylbird8014 This.
Also, make sure to check the recordings of it on Luke's other channel. (Scorpio Martianus)
Love your Mozart's soundtracks!
Epico come sempre!
Grazie!
@@manuelapollo7988 Sono d'accordo.
stephano looks so cute though, jealous of his hair
Get yourself a group of friends like this
No group could be better
Ciao
Mi chiamo Marci. Sono ungharese e studio italiano da un anno. Ho appena trovato il tuo canale dall' Italia antica. I tuoi video sono molto interssanti! Congratulazione!
Me and the boys in the thermae talking about how we lost Caecilius to the Arabians.
What a fun video! I really enjoyed this. Thank you for putting this out there. It must be fun to go read ancient writings in a historic part of the world.
Southern Italians sound (their accent) and look more Greek than Italians actually
Magna Gracia.
OR Megale Hellas i guess,
I enjoyed this one more than the Rome's video. Not because the other people were somewhat rude in some cases, but this one has a nicer "showcase" so to speak.
Thanks for sharing! ♥️
Wooooow! :D
And here is a Luke Wilson from my Loki video WOOOW 😄
That was fabulous. I can read the subtitles and follow along thanks to my Spanish but knowing the context makes all the difference.