StudioL30 wrote:I speak Italian and Latin. 
I highly doubt you can speak it like you can speak English or Italian. Not even my teachers who studied Latin for ten years could do that.
Genzarata wrote:Latin isn't just to show you're a smart-ass. It helps you understand the root of most languages, mainly the ones you take in school (English in particular, some French, Italian, etc). If you know the roots, you can understand a lot more. I'd also like to learn it to invent my own language. That would be awesome, but I'm weird that way.
I speak Dutch, English, French and a little German. Latin didn't help me one bit with any of them. I don't know about Italian, but just learning the language you want to learn would be a better choice then learning a dead language that would maybe help a little with that. Just sayin'.
(EDIT: Possibly it would help with English, I don't know because I never learned English. I've just been watching English films since I was 6, my English skills developed from that. Anyway, it's a pretty easy language to learn so I don't think Latin is necessary.)
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