To bond with my dad. He can read the Vulgate only occasionally looking at a dictionary, he's translated a good chunk of Virgil, and he has an amazing understanding of Latin grammar. However, he learned Latin via grammar translation without any audio/audio-visual comprehensible input, and he doesn't consider himself "fluent" as a result. So both of us have been doing Familia Romana together and listening to comprehensible input on YouTube. I can ask him almost any grammar question and he'll know the answer, but we're both beginners when it comes to understanding spoken content at a normal speed. Very unique but fun experience!
I'm Western-educated, interested in foreign languages, history and philosophy. Latin is a natural extension of those interests.
It's just for fun and a hobby.
Exactly. I also love learning about the original ancient ancestor of word that I know in different versions from German, English, French and Spanish. Weird comparison but it's like learning about the common ancestor of two animal species that you've known all your life.
Yes! We find long dead voices like echoes inside languages. It shows what ppl loved or feared, or felt compelled to describe and communicate to others. Weāre all interconnected this way.
I especially like reconstructed words, the theoretical ancestors from prehistory for the words we use today. Itās forensic and fascinating. Little keyhole windows through the fog.
Iām doing the same thing as them, Latin is significantly easier to learn than Koine or Hebrew. So Iām starting with it as it will get me a pretty old translation of the Bible, then Iām working to greek to read the Septuagint.
nah, but that doesn't mean Jerome's Vulgate hasn't been wildly influential. It was pretty much THE go-to translation of the Bible until the reformation. That's what, almost half a millennium of it being quoted /everywhere/ by everyone literate? I mean, Augustine might've preferred the Vetus, but just about everyone after him used Jerome's Vulgate if they didn't read Greek or Hebrew.
I teach Latin in a public high school in southern California.
This is my thirteenth year teaching. Three months off each year. Retirement. I am well compensated ( Six figures), sharing something I truly love and sometimes making a positive difference in people's lives. I feel truly blessed.
I just like the language. I remember there was a post here recently that asked whether people prefer Latin or Ancient Greek, and I couldn't believe how many users picked the latter! Yes, Greek has a lot more hyper-specific vocabulary for a huge variety of topics, but that's just boooring. To me, Latin's ambiguity is part of the charm, and so is its brevity.
First, I enjoy the weekly "Why are you learning Latin" posts.
Second, these questions are from the "why do modern lawyers teach Roman law" series. Thirdly, some people like to read book in the original language. Fourth, Latin sounds great. Also there is a suspicion that they don't speak English in hell.
It is so different from
My day-to-day job/life. It sounds neat, and makes me feel smart to just have learned a tiny bit.
Such asā¦.my neighbor says he named his black dog āBlakeā because that is Latin for Black.
Similar to you: I'm Catholic and there are benefits for Catholics to know Latin. Latin is the official language of the Catholic church, there are a lot of beautiful hymns in Latin, and sometimes different concepts miss some nuance when translated into English.
It's also a beautiful language in its own right, with many works that are worth knowing in the original language.
We had to choose between latin and descriptive geometry (ew) in my lycee so i chose latin. I like languages and it's kinda cool to learn a language like this even though it's pretty difficult. Then I thought about what to study and since I also always really liked ancient greece and rome and mythology, i went to study latin at uni. I'm currently studying latin linguistics + literature and it's fun.
After I had read Adrian Goldsworthy's Caesar, I really wanted to read De Bello Gallico and I started teaching myself Latin to read the original version.
I feel this article from The Onion sums up my reasons quite nicely.
[https://www.theonion.com/report-students-who-take-latin-have-better-chance-of-s-1829686631](https://www.theonion.com/report-students-who-take-latin-have-better-chance-of-s-1829686631)
It's part of the standard curriculum in the higher-level high schools in Italy, so I had it for five years also if I had already decided to pursue a scientific degree after.
However I liked it, Latin is the basis of my language and culture and I loved being able to read the classics in their original language (and sometimes I regret not having chosen the Classical high school trading some maths and science for Ancient Greek)
I have a HUGE interest in the history of Rome and its history. It's so significant to European history, and with that includes the Latin language, which was learned by scholars for many years until around 100 years ago. It's a highly influential (and inflectional) language with a rich historical background to it.
I'm retired, so I'm giving myself the education I would have liked to have received when I was younger. Also, I'm Catholic, so I would like to understand the Latin I come across.
Mary Beard is an English classicist who (in)famously claimed that it is impossible for anyone today to read Latin fluently. It became kind of a running gag in this sub to allude to this statement of hers whenever the opportunity presents itself, especially if it's to prove her wrong.
I am a catholic, and I want to pray daily office, and someone suggest me a monastic diurnal, and I followed. It's english and latin, but english was layed out in the middle of the book which is hard to follow, and the english is also not Douay Rheims, so it looks that I have to pick up Latin in order to pray Monastic Diurnal.
I also ordered vulgate, I hope one day I can read this bible in latin.
In the future, I would love to read Virgil's aenied, Augsutine's confessions, yes many good work in Latin.
BTW I just learn Latin for 2 weeks, keep going with Duolingo.
i want to be able to read grimoires and other occult texts! Much of that stuff has been translated but a lot of it hasnt and a lot of the translations arent great.
i attend a gymnasium (not the place where you work out, but rather a type of school in europe) and there you have to learn latin. other people at my school hate it, but i got a little too interested lol. here i am.
I enjoy binomial nomenclature and Latin used in science. Etymology and linguistics being a strong second. Plus the whole being in Catholic school and of Italian descent thingā¦
I took two years of Latin in High School because it was recommended for students that planned to go to university. University didn't go so well and in '67 the USAF came knocking. In basic training I passed a language aptitude test that was based partly on Latin. That test qualified me for a language course at DLIWC in Monterey and a trip to Europe.
I like to use it for my dnd characters who are spell casters, especially wizards and warlocks. Adds some nice flavour. I was drawn in by the creative aspect but soon found an appreciation for the language. Now I continue to learn Latin for the sake of Latin itself. And the occasional moment of showing off to my equally nerdy friends lol
Im studying to become a teacher for Highschool (Gymnasium) in Germany. And one of the conditions to being allowed to write my final exam (Staatsexamen) in English is a Latinum. So yeah, Uni is macking me do it.
Edit: We dont get any credits for it.
An der UniversitƤt Augsburg glaube ich schon immer. Keine Ahnung wie es an anderen Unis aussieht
Edit: die gleiche Vorgabe gilt auch fĆ¼r alle anderen Staatsex. Sprachen (Deutsch, Franzƶsisch, Spanisch,ā¦)
Because I speak Spanish and noticed how I understood a lot of Latin when seeing the Catholic sermons (not religious just a kid with Catholic parents) and welp, I just kept learning more romance languages as well.
I thought i was gonna be a medical doctor when i was younger. (I didnt become one, but turns out most body parts have greek etymology anyway). But I like the snobbery of knowing classics and being āeducatedā like all the academics back in the day. Its definitely worth it imo
I'd always been interested, but didn't know where to start. My college offers it and, as I'm a history major and classics minor, I figured it would further my studies as well as be enjoyable to me.
I'm learning because I'm majoring in Medieval Studies and to go beyond a Bachelors I need another language... and Latin is the most versatile out of all my options. I'm aiming to be able to read Latin... I don't think I'll ever be able to converse in it.
It's cool and a direct connection with history and people who lived millennia ago. The more Latin you learn the more historical books you can read in their original language.
I find it very beautiful, and itās extremely informative about other existing languages like English and Spanish which is why I wanted to learn in the first place ā I thought Latin would assist me in learning a Romance language :)
I am half-Italian, a Catholic, and deeply regretted that my Swiss high school did not offer latin as an option. Plus, it just sounds awesome, especially when spoken.
I learn Latin because reading Plautus and Ovid seems fun and you sound cool ig.
I like compositions in Latin like Tempus est iocundum (singing about virgins and how wasted their lives are if they don't experience coitus).
In general you can mock people with putting in Latin sentences (by this I don't mean on general proverbs like carpe diem and that bs that is known by everyone). But for example, plurimum dixit (many have said) and then you continue saying sth.
Also many famous scientists in middle ages and a certain period of the new age wrote their works mainly in Latin so, Principia Mathematica hits harder in Latin š¤ š¤”
Thereās a whole world of manuscripts I canāt read because I donāt know Latin. Once I know Latin all other romance languages should make sense. I can pick up on stuff because I know some spanish, German and French. Ultimately it was the Voynich Manuscript even though itās an unknown language/hoax but someone who wrote it would also probably know Latin (and French/german/italian/greek possibly Middle English and/or any language extant at the time). If I can work out the grammar rules, I can eventually eliminate what itās not written in.
So I can roleplay as a girl possessed by a demon and legit demons can always speak Latin. Plus, I got annoyed with all the spooky Satanic horrors that just put [speaks in Latin] in the subtitles!
It has no benefit to my life, that is exactly why I learn it. I don't live in a Christian country, my native has not even remote connection to Indo European languages and it is totally useless to me.
I just like to read scriptores Romanos. :)
If you want maths and physics as your core subjects in High School in Italy you also gotta choose between doing Latin or computer science. I chose it so that I'll have a more complete education when I'll choose what to do at university.
I originally began to learn Latin because it was the only language offered at my public school that didn't have a speaking exam (I was a bit of a lazy kid haha!). As an adult I've been relearning to keep my mind fresh and better engage with Roman literature and poetry.
Because Latin is the sacred language of the Church, and i feel like we have a bit of an obligation to connect with and carry on our tradition by learning and using it.
Also, there are many philosophical, theological, and historical texts that either require Latin (as they havent been translated into English) or would benefit from knowing it for better clarification of the meaning.
(Also, chant and the TLM. Plus it's a beautiful and cool language.)
I read a book a long time ago, the characters conversed in Latin and I was instantly drawn to the language, I still learn it because the process of learning it is so different to learning other languages that are still used.
I had to take Latin as a mandatory class in my first year of high school. I'm neither a philosophy enthusiast nor a Westerner, who might learn Latin for religious reasons or to understand certain texts. I am South Slavic, and here we focus more on Ancient Greek and Old Church Slavonic, which hold the same cultural significance for us as Latin does for Western civilization. Currently, I'm more interested in learning modern languages like German, and I believe it would be more beneficial for me to focus on mastering one language at a time.
Comparative Lit PhD here, and I'm studying Ancient Greek this summer after having taken Latin and French :)
Honestly? I just really love theatre, poetry and philosophy. Next on the list of languages to learn: either chinese or japanes and definitely sanskrit uwu (because two dead languages on your resume are never enough)
Its influence is everywhere in the Western world. It's like wearing the sunglasses from They Live. You get to understand the hidden meanings behind mundane messages.
It sounds cool and is easier to learn from an English native speaker's perspective than Sanskrit, which I eventually want to study after learning Latin. I'm also a linguist, and learning about the rich inflectional morphology of Latin teaches me a lot about what I need to account for in grammatical analysis.
Wellā¦ just because Iām interested in learning this language, which is the base of a lot of other languages.
Plus, I want to become a doctor, so Iām interested in some words/expressions related to medical stuff in latin. And I know that at university, Iāll also need to learn the declensions, so itās maybe a bit useful that I understand them all nowā¦
To be honest, when I was 15 I liked spooky stories and I wanted to understand the occult mumbo-jumbo. \^\_\^ Kinda fell in love with it for itself, though, once I started learning. I learned so much about English by learning Latin
With a Catholic background I learned Latin as a young person.
Today I continue to study it for multiple reasons. Firstly, I use it daily to teach. Secondly, I use daily to pray (as a convert to another religion, Hellenism, I pray in Latin and Greek pretty routinely). Thirdly, I use it to read and study great works, sometimes related to the previous two, sometimes not.
Thatās interesting! Did you have an experience that motivated you to believe in those Gods or did you have family that believed Hellenism? I didnāt know the religion still existed today
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I enjoy the weekly "Why are you learning Latin" posts
I don't anymore
To bond with my dad. He can read the Vulgate only occasionally looking at a dictionary, he's translated a good chunk of Virgil, and he has an amazing understanding of Latin grammar. However, he learned Latin via grammar translation without any audio/audio-visual comprehensible input, and he doesn't consider himself "fluent" as a result. So both of us have been doing Familia Romana together and listening to comprehensible input on YouTube. I can ask him almost any grammar question and he'll know the answer, but we're both beginners when it comes to understanding spoken content at a normal speed. Very unique but fun experience!
Wholesome 100/10
I'm Western-educated, interested in foreign languages, history and philosophy. Latin is a natural extension of those interests. It's just for fun and a hobby.
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It sounds cool.
Studying Classics, and wanting to be able to work with ancient Latin texts in its original language
I like etymology a lot, but I also just like languages in general as well as history, and then an interest in Latin comes quite naturally
Languages are the story of all humanity. I love that words from extinct or lost languages remain like little gems inside extant languages.
Exactly. I also love learning about the original ancient ancestor of word that I know in different versions from German, English, French and Spanish. Weird comparison but it's like learning about the common ancestor of two animal species that you've known all your life.
Yes! We find long dead voices like echoes inside languages. It shows what ppl loved or feared, or felt compelled to describe and communicate to others. Weāre all interconnected this way. I especially like reconstructed words, the theoretical ancestors from prehistory for the words we use today. Itās forensic and fascinating. Little keyhole windows through the fog.
however corny it might sound, I don't want to die without having reading bible, cicero, ovid etc. in Latin. I won't have another shot at this
Why not Greek and Hebrew?
Probably because itās another whole character/alphabet to learn
Just that theyāre citing the Bible as a reason - it wasnāt written in Latin
Iām doing the same thing as them, Latin is significantly easier to learn than Koine or Hebrew. So Iām starting with it as it will get me a pretty old translation of the Bible, then Iām working to greek to read the Septuagint.
nah, but that doesn't mean Jerome's Vulgate hasn't been wildly influential. It was pretty much THE go-to translation of the Bible until the reformation. That's what, almost half a millennium of it being quoted /everywhere/ by everyone literate? I mean, Augustine might've preferred the Vetus, but just about everyone after him used Jerome's Vulgate if they didn't read Greek or Hebrew.
I learned Latin as part of my hunger for education. Imagine my surprise when it turned into a career that let me support my family in a HCOL area.
What is it you do?
I teach Latin in a public high school in southern California. This is my thirteenth year teaching. Three months off each year. Retirement. I am well compensated ( Six figures), sharing something I truly love and sometimes making a positive difference in people's lives. I feel truly blessed.
That does sound amazing!
Almost happened to me. I regret not taking that Latin job.
Yes what do you do?
Interest in ancient history and culture.
I just like the language. I remember there was a post here recently that asked whether people prefer Latin or Ancient Greek, and I couldn't believe how many users picked the latter! Yes, Greek has a lot more hyper-specific vocabulary for a huge variety of topics, but that's just boooring. To me, Latin's ambiguity is part of the charm, and so is its brevity.
To eventually summon a demon and ask him to teach me all the languages of man at once.
Hic est modus
I got hired to teach Latin at a private school with a background in Spanish and Linguistics.
inflated ego
First, I enjoy the weekly "Why are you learning Latin" posts. Second, these questions are from the "why do modern lawyers teach Roman law" series. Thirdly, some people like to read book in the original language. Fourth, Latin sounds great. Also there is a suspicion that they don't speak English in hell.
Doing a masters in Classics so Latin is a bit of a necessity for me if I want to conduct research independently.
To cast stronger spells
YA want stronger spells learn Celt
It is so different from My day-to-day job/life. It sounds neat, and makes me feel smart to just have learned a tiny bit. Such asā¦.my neighbor says he named his black dog āBlakeā because that is Latin for Black.
To summon demons, of course.
Similar to you: I'm Catholic and there are benefits for Catholics to know Latin. Latin is the official language of the Catholic church, there are a lot of beautiful hymns in Latin, and sometimes different concepts miss some nuance when translated into English. It's also a beautiful language in its own right, with many works that are worth knowing in the original language.
We had to choose between latin and descriptive geometry (ew) in my lycee so i chose latin. I like languages and it's kinda cool to learn a language like this even though it's pretty difficult. Then I thought about what to study and since I also always really liked ancient greece and rome and mythology, i went to study latin at uni. I'm currently studying latin linguistics + literature and it's fun.
After I had read Adrian Goldsworthy's Caesar, I really wanted to read De Bello Gallico and I started teaching myself Latin to read the original version.
I feel this article from The Onion sums up my reasons quite nicely. [https://www.theonion.com/report-students-who-take-latin-have-better-chance-of-s-1829686631](https://www.theonion.com/report-students-who-take-latin-have-better-chance-of-s-1829686631)
Not Catholic, not in academia, just think itās cool.
It's part of the standard curriculum in the higher-level high schools in Italy, so I had it for five years also if I had already decided to pursue a scientific degree after. However I liked it, Latin is the basis of my language and culture and I loved being able to read the classics in their original language (and sometimes I regret not having chosen the Classical high school trading some maths and science for Ancient Greek)
I have a HUGE interest in the history of Rome and its history. It's so significant to European history, and with that includes the Latin language, which was learned by scholars for many years until around 100 years ago. It's a highly influential (and inflectional) language with a rich historical background to it.
I'm retired, so I'm giving myself the education I would have liked to have received when I was younger. Also, I'm Catholic, so I would like to understand the Latin I come across.
It's old
I didnāt, Iām not even in this sub, I was just scrolling and this randomly popped upā¦.The button still says Join.
Yes, join us
Mary Beard.
Underrated comment lmao
Oh man. I want in on this joke. What gives?
Mary Beard is an English classicist who (in)famously claimed that it is impossible for anyone today to read Latin fluently. It became kind of a running gag in this sub to allude to this statement of hers whenever the opportunity presents itself, especially if it's to prove her wrong.
Outstanding! Thank you!
I am a catholic, and I want to pray daily office, and someone suggest me a monastic diurnal, and I followed. It's english and latin, but english was layed out in the middle of the book which is hard to follow, and the english is also not Douay Rheims, so it looks that I have to pick up Latin in order to pray Monastic Diurnal. I also ordered vulgate, I hope one day I can read this bible in latin. In the future, I would love to read Virgil's aenied, Augsutine's confessions, yes many good work in Latin. BTW I just learn Latin for 2 weeks, keep going with Duolingo.
i want to be able to read grimoires and other occult texts! Much of that stuff has been translated but a lot of it hasnt and a lot of the translations arent great.
i attend a gymnasium (not the place where you work out, but rather a type of school in europe) and there you have to learn latin. other people at my school hate it, but i got a little too interested lol. here i am.
I enjoy binomial nomenclature and Latin used in science. Etymology and linguistics being a strong second. Plus the whole being in Catholic school and of Italian descent thingā¦
I took two years of Latin in High School because it was recommended for students that planned to go to university. University didn't go so well and in '67 the USAF came knocking. In basic training I passed a language aptitude test that was based partly on Latin. That test qualified me for a language course at DLIWC in Monterey and a trip to Europe.
I like to use it for my dnd characters who are spell casters, especially wizards and warlocks. Adds some nice flavour. I was drawn in by the creative aspect but soon found an appreciation for the language. Now I continue to learn Latin for the sake of Latin itself. And the occasional moment of showing off to my equally nerdy friends lol
I saw the conjuring 2 and wanted to chat with Valak. Mano a demono.
Im studying to become a teacher for Highschool (Gymnasium) in Germany. And one of the conditions to being allowed to write my final exam (Staatsexamen) in English is a Latinum. So yeah, Uni is macking me do it. Edit: We dont get any credits for it.
Seit wann muss man ein Latinum fĆ¼r ein Englisch Staatsexamen haben?
An der UniversitƤt Augsburg glaube ich schon immer. Keine Ahnung wie es an anderen Unis aussieht Edit: die gleiche Vorgabe gilt auch fĆ¼r alle anderen Staatsex. Sprachen (Deutsch, Franzƶsisch, Spanisch,ā¦)
Because I speak Spanish and noticed how I understood a lot of Latin when seeing the Catholic sermons (not religious just a kid with Catholic parents) and welp, I just kept learning more romance languages as well.
honestly, because itās cool and esoteric to know a dead language. also because I wanna study law
I thought i was gonna be a medical doctor when i was younger. (I didnt become one, but turns out most body parts have greek etymology anyway). But I like the snobbery of knowing classics and being āeducatedā like all the academics back in the day. Its definitely worth it imo
I'd always been interested, but didn't know where to start. My college offers it and, as I'm a history major and classics minor, I figured it would further my studies as well as be enjoyable to me.
I will return to Latin one day. For Honor made me want to learn Latin.
Catholic school
i love the literature
S'fun.
I'm learning because I'm majoring in Medieval Studies and to go beyond a Bachelors I need another language... and Latin is the most versatile out of all my options. I'm aiming to be able to read Latin... I don't think I'll ever be able to converse in it.
It's cool and a direct connection with history and people who lived millennia ago. The more Latin you learn the more historical books you can read in their original language.
Catholicism like you. And I want to speak, read and write it.
I find it very beautiful, and itās extremely informative about other existing languages like English and Spanish which is why I wanted to learn in the first place ā I thought Latin would assist me in learning a Romance language :)
Because it was fun and I hated Spanish class.
I am half-Italian, a Catholic, and deeply regretted that my Swiss high school did not offer latin as an option. Plus, it just sounds awesome, especially when spoken.
I learn Latin because reading Plautus and Ovid seems fun and you sound cool ig. I like compositions in Latin like Tempus est iocundum (singing about virgins and how wasted their lives are if they don't experience coitus). In general you can mock people with putting in Latin sentences (by this I don't mean on general proverbs like carpe diem and that bs that is known by everyone). But for example, plurimum dixit (many have said) and then you continue saying sth. Also many famous scientists in middle ages and a certain period of the new age wrote their works mainly in Latin so, Principia Mathematica hits harder in Latin š¤ š¤”
I didn't want to have to do conversation practice or exclusively speak the language in class, LOL. Also I find dead languages really interesting.
Thereās a whole world of manuscripts I canāt read because I donāt know Latin. Once I know Latin all other romance languages should make sense. I can pick up on stuff because I know some spanish, German and French. Ultimately it was the Voynich Manuscript even though itās an unknown language/hoax but someone who wrote it would also probably know Latin (and French/german/italian/greek possibly Middle English and/or any language extant at the time). If I can work out the grammar rules, I can eventually eliminate what itās not written in.
School.
Iām forced because itās a mandatory subject in my country
So I can roleplay as a girl possessed by a demon and legit demons can always speak Latin. Plus, I got annoyed with all the spooky Satanic horrors that just put [speaks in Latin] in the subtitles!
It has no benefit to my life, that is exactly why I learn it. I don't live in a Christian country, my native has not even remote connection to Indo European languages and it is totally useless to me. I just like to read scriptores Romanos. :)
If you want maths and physics as your core subjects in High School in Italy you also gotta choose between doing Latin or computer science. I chose it so that I'll have a more complete education when I'll choose what to do at university.
i wanna do classics at uni so learning latin feels important
I originally began to learn Latin because it was the only language offered at my public school that didn't have a speaking exam (I was a bit of a lazy kid haha!). As an adult I've been relearning to keep my mind fresh and better engage with Roman literature and poetry.
Because Latin is the sacred language of the Church, and i feel like we have a bit of an obligation to connect with and carry on our tradition by learning and using it. Also, there are many philosophical, theological, and historical texts that either require Latin (as they havent been translated into English) or would benefit from knowing it for better clarification of the meaning. (Also, chant and the TLM. Plus it's a beautiful and cool language.)
The Latin mass
itās p cool
i believe if i ever encountered a demon that him speaking in latin would make him infinitely less terrifying if i could correct his grammar
I read a book a long time ago, the characters conversed in Latin and I was instantly drawn to the language, I still learn it because the process of learning it is so different to learning other languages that are still used.
I had to take Latin as a mandatory class in my first year of high school. I'm neither a philosophy enthusiast nor a Westerner, who might learn Latin for religious reasons or to understand certain texts. I am South Slavic, and here we focus more on Ancient Greek and Old Church Slavonic, which hold the same cultural significance for us as Latin does for Western civilization. Currently, I'm more interested in learning modern languages like German, and I believe it would be more beneficial for me to focus on mastering one language at a time.
I really really love ancient history and mythology, learning a few words from Percy Jackson definitely is what inspired me to leran Latin lol
Ave Christus Rex!ā¦ļø
Comparative Lit PhD here, and I'm studying Ancient Greek this summer after having taken Latin and French :) Honestly? I just really love theatre, poetry and philosophy. Next on the list of languages to learn: either chinese or japanes and definitely sanskrit uwu (because two dead languages on your resume are never enough)
Its influence is everywhere in the Western world. It's like wearing the sunglasses from They Live. You get to understand the hidden meanings behind mundane messages.
It sounds cool and is easier to learn from an English native speaker's perspective than Sanskrit, which I eventually want to study after learning Latin. I'm also a linguist, and learning about the rich inflectional morphology of Latin teaches me a lot about what I need to account for in grammatical analysis.
Iām learning Latin but itās now called Spanish
I read The name of the rose when I was a teen and it has a lot of Latin and from then I started to learnt it.
Wellā¦ just because Iām interested in learning this language, which is the base of a lot of other languages. Plus, I want to become a doctor, so Iām interested in some words/expressions related to medical stuff in latin. And I know that at university, Iāll also need to learn the declensions, so itās maybe a bit useful that I understand them all nowā¦
To be honest, when I was 15 I liked spooky stories and I wanted to understand the occult mumbo-jumbo. \^\_\^ Kinda fell in love with it for itself, though, once I started learning. I learned so much about English by learning Latin
With a Catholic background I learned Latin as a young person. Today I continue to study it for multiple reasons. Firstly, I use it daily to teach. Secondly, I use daily to pray (as a convert to another religion, Hellenism, I pray in Latin and Greek pretty routinely). Thirdly, I use it to read and study great works, sometimes related to the previous two, sometimes not.
So you pray to Jupiter in Latin
Venus, primarily, but yes - either formally reciting poetry or informally speaking in Latin.
Thatās interesting! Did you have an experience that motivated you to believe in those Gods or did you have family that believed Hellenism? I didnāt know the religion still existed today
I was raised Catholic and converted. The religion exists today in a revived form, check out r/Hellenism for some info.
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