I'm Catholic. The prayer, "Hail Holy Queen," is nice, but hearing someone sing, "Salve, Regina," always brings tears to my eyes. The power of Latin to stir the emotions.
I feel the same way about things like Christmas Carols (e.g. Adeste Fideles). I suspect that it's less the Latin as much as the fact that these things were originally written in Latin, making the translation a poor window on the original meaning and poetry. Another reason to learn Latin so that one can understand and appreciate the original version.
I'm Croatian, studied Latin in high school for two years. It was an obligatory subject and it's incredible how much it helped me in learning Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, it gave me a basis in vocabulary. I speak Croatian, English, Spanish, Portuguese and can manage in Arabic and Japanese to smaller extent. I still remember lots of Latin proverbs back from the high school. Also, I'm Catholic and I find prayers and hymns beautiful and hearing a prayer in Latin makes it more spiritual at the same time. Greetings!
@@99Gara99well an average croatian probably doesn't speak more than 2 anyway. Latin isn't actively used, and it's studied for only the first 2 years of most high schools... unless you go to a high school with a classical program, in which youll be learning latin and greek for all 4 years of high school
@viewer9058Where did I say that Latin is "nearer" to God? God created and inspired all the languages and it just so happened that Latin was the main language of the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church inherited it from Rome.
My basic knowledge of Latin has been incredibly useful in learning Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (and Italian has helped improve my latin too), not to mention how much Latin has helped me as a teacher of English, mainly to hispanic speakers. I only wish my school hadn't abolished it after studying for only 1 term at school!! So many academics and clerics sadly manage to kill Latin completely when they speak it without intonation or feeling, but Italian Latin speakers are great at bringing it to life (and a few great RUclipsrs too!) Vivat Latin!!
I learned Latin on my own in high school, I kept studying it on and off ever since. It vastly improved my vocabulary in English and in Spanish. I am native speaker of both Spanish and English - bilingual. Teaching Latin to Hispanics in the United States is a great idea because it would boost their confidence/egos when they are learning Latin, see how English has borrowed essentially 30-60% of its vocabulary directly/indirectly from Latin. Latin sounds very Spanish-like, as well. It would make the spanish speakers proud of their language Spanish for looking/sounding quite similar to Latin. Just my 2 cents.
I minored in classics (Latin literature) and now teach computer science. #9 makes a lot of sense to me. The nested structures in modern programming languages are perfect analogs to the grammatical system (conjugations and declensions) of Romance languages.
I didn't really understand English grammar until I studied Latin. Having it all laid out in the case and declension systems made it finally click. Latin isn't the only language that does this, but this is yet another of its benefits.
How do Latin cases help you understand English grammar, given that English doesn't have cases? I would say that learning ANY foreign language helps you understand the grammar of your language, because it makes you aware that your language has a very specific 'logic' but other forms of 'logic' are possible, and what appeared as obvious becomes interesting. You become aware that there's something to understand, whereas previously everything appeared to go without saying.
cases are used in German and English is a Germanic language , but in 1066 the Normans conquered England and forced French onto the English so that most of the case system was eliminated from the modern English language
@@edwardmacnab354 I don't think the disappearence of cases in English has much to do with French being "forced onto the English". There was already a weakening of the case system which went on for several centuries and is a natural process which happened in other Germanic languages (even German has much less of a case system as Old High German did, and in some German dialects there's even less case distinctions).
@@frenchimp Because the case system makes function explicit. Take the sentence "the boy gives the girl the book." Three nouns and a verb. The nouns have the role of a subject, an object, and an indirect object. If you already know English grammar, it's a very straightforward sentence. The trick is, you have to get there first. With the Latin version "puer puellae librum dat", it's all in plain sight. The roles are literally tacked on to the nouns visually, with the case endings. Puer is the subject, because it's in the nominative. Librum is the object because it's in the accusative. Puellae is the indirect object because it's in the dative. Learning the case system, what the cases are, what they do, doing translations, laid bare what English grammar was doing in a less obvious way.
@@frenchimp good to know , but my question would be , how does understanding cases help @carlos_takeshi understand English Grammar better ? being an English speaker from the start I am clueless as to how English actually works and see it as a mish mash of very complicated ways of doing things that one just feels as correct. I should add that German is impossibly complicated with a Huge weight of Grammar to learn , at least for me , and the same goes for Latin .
I'm picking up Latin again. As a non-native English speaker, it amazes me how I go, "Frater... brother... OHHH like fraternity!" Amazing. I'm excited for my Latin journey. Thank you for this video.
Learn Latin to take part in the Tridentine Catholic Mass where the language is pre-dominantly used, they’ve maintained the liturgy in Latin for many many centuries!
He specifically didn't emphasize the religious / parochial aspect of Latin. He wants people to learn and enjoy Latin regardless of religion. So-speaking of Western Classical Music-not just Mass and Requiem, but also _Carmina Burana._ After all, Latin predates Christianity by about 700 years.
@@cb8655 That's true. To keep the video to a reasonable length, he has picked the 11 most compelling reasons out of-what I'm sure must've been-a much longer list. Either way, he didn't mention that Catholic Churches have Mass in Latin. He also didn't mention _O Fortuna_ from _Carmina Burana._ I was sure he'd play it-it's a very popular piece of music-and then point out that it's in Latin. (For other languages, he does mention music as a compelling reason to learn the language.) I'm guessing it's because there isn't a lot of secular music with Latin lyrics if you exclude Mass and Requiem. He did mention Mel Gibson's _The Passion of the Christ._ I'm again guessing-it's because there aren't many other movies containing substantial dialogs in Latin. Of course, every movie has a small amount of Latin, usually a short phrase or sentence like _carpe diem, in vino veritas, Semper Fi, et cetera._ But those don't require you to learn Latin. Even the movie _Quo Vadis_ was wholly in English. _Monty Python's Life of Brian_ had a bit more Latin, but still not enough. So ... do you know Latin? If not, are you planning to learn?
i am a biologist. i took latin in college. just to make it easier to remember the traits of living groups. it is easier to remember all their traits, if you know what the group name means to which my professor said: finally, a good reason
I am a programmer and I speak Latin, though I learned Koine Greek before Latin. I once saw a bumper sticker "VIVIT LINGUA LATINA". I understood it immediately, but took several seconds to recognize the language. (I grew up hearing French and Spanish and can transmute words from one to the other.)
“VIVIT LINGUA LATINA” is very similar to “VIVE LENGUA LATINA” (Spanish). If your native language is Spanish, Latin is very easy for you... the grammar in particular, a piece of cake. I know both, since Latin was mandatory when I was little.
@@nHansLingua Latina = Latin language. Latin America is called that because they speak Romance languages, which are languages descended from Latin. Don't get confused!
@@utopianforce7895 Now I'm more confused than ever 🤪- so Québec and Louisiana are considered Latin America? Justin Trudeau, Justin Bieber, Brendan Fraser, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Al Capone, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci are Latinos? Céline Dion, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Avril Lavigne, Ariana Grande, Madonna, Marisa Tomei, and Sofia Coppola are Latinas? Naah, doesn't sound right. 🤔
One of the reasons I love Latin is actually because I love english. Shakespear, Herman Melville. All of these things you will understand better with Latin.
Beautiful video. I learnt Latin as child in school and I loved it. I come from a town that was founded by the Romans (Augustus). Roman history has always been present. I'd really like to try out one of these Latin emersion programs. 😊😊
Studied Classics for my undergrad (taught myself Latin). After graduating, I became worried about employment and so taught myself to code for 6 months and got a developer job. I can say without hesitation that the close study of languages such as Latin and Greek seems to have aided learning to code. You have to make deductions as if in a fog and these deductions are made while holding a ton of information in your mind - both coding and the ancient languages require this!
I think my language choices may have had the same motivation - Latin, Greek, Russian, Chinese. My favorite Dr. Seuss book was On Beyond Zebra. Spent most of high school creating my own language - dragged Roget's [non-alphabetical] Thesaurus around with me everywhere looking for patterns and relationships.
Wow, this video blew my mind! I have been trying to decide on a second language to learn. My final 3 choices based on how they flow and sound were, Japanese, French or Latin. I'm 💯 on Latin now.
Good morning. I am so pleased to have come across your channel. I have thought about learning at least some Latin, but I found no resources except a very old grammar textbook. I am 81 years of age and looking for something interesting to take on. I loved hearing it spoken. So, here I go! At some point I will let you know how it is going. Thank you. I like your enthusiasm.
3:10 can we pause a little and appreciate the girl's fantastic penmanship? In an age when cursive is is turning into a form of cryptography, to see the sweet way she takes notes is wholesome.
I had 4 years of Latin in the early 1970s. my high school Latin teacher said an educated man does not have to know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it. your person who gave a reason to know Latin quoted the beginning. of the Aeneid.
This video has inspired me to start Latin again, I did it for 8 academic years during school, and wasn't too bad at it. 10 years ago I bought 'Gwynnes Latin', and started memorizing declensions etc, but then dropped it. I don't know if I'll start it again, but I feel like it right now. Thanks
My motivation for learning Latin is theological in nature. Absolutely, it would be wonderful to read the classical poets, but much of the theological writings in church history are also in Latin. I was reading Charles Hodge's Systematic Theology, which was written in the 19th Century, and there are large sections in Latin that I cannot read.
I'm a professional software engineer, currently a Principal Engineer at a big tech company. I love Latin, having studied it for 3 semesters in college, but I would not use Latin to get better at programming. Whatever you might learn from such an exercise, there are easier ways to learn through more direct methods.
If you want to listen to Latin then just listen to Helium Vola. Their lyrics are mostly Vulgar Latin/old forms of Romance (and Germanic) languages. Beautiful singing on top of that!✨
It's derived primarily from Arabic, but with a long history of italian (?) and then english colonialism, it's taken a lot of romance and then english words.
Romance languages are closer to each other than they are to Latin. Currently learning Romanian and recently I heard the word 'parete' = wall, which is 'pared' in Spanish and 'parede' in Portuguese. I know a lot of French and some Italian. Latin can be fun, but if you resurrected an ancient Roman and dropped him off in a Romance country, he wouldn't understand a lot at first.
Great video! About culture & literature, need to add the huge amount of books written in Latin during the middle age, when it was the European lingua franca...
I'd say Esperanto's grammar is fairly easy to grasp but the vocabulary is just as much of a slog as it is in any other language. I did the Duolingo course for the whole of lockdown just to stay sane but unless you like talking to yourself it's not easy to become fluent. Mi povas paroli Esperanton iomete. Estas malfacila sed mi satas gin.😎
@@ironjade i have used esperanto to understand people from russia and japan, we didn’t speak each other’s language but through esperanto we understood each other
@@mep6302I second this especially the latter. Thai is my mother tongue and it was difficult enough for me when I first tried to learn French but now, with the declensions of Latin, I’m overwhelmed😂😂
As someone who started out in programming and datasci/compsci and is now reading through Hobbitus Illē, my answer is a resounding, and emphatic CERTĒ!!
@@storylearning I loved it! One of my favorite classes. I even kept all the books and at some point (after I get my French up to full working proficiency/B2) I'll probably go back through them for a refresher.
First time finding the argument that studying latin is similar to learning programming! - after studying medieval latin (loved it) and now starting a study in computer science, most of the people don't understand that it is not the opposite of topics u can do...
I listen to music in Latin often and man we could use more Latin speaking song writers out there. It’s like 75% of song lyrics are taken from the carmina burana or from like the 12th century (I don’t speak Latin btw, but I can sing you numerous songs in it lol)
I can confirm all the statements in this video clip. Seven years of Latin in middle school actually helped me later, when I actually came to programming unplanned, as I can say in retrospect. As a retiree, I will turn away from technology again to ancient languages like Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, and Sumerian (can one learn Sumerian at all?), unless Alois Alzheimer hits me.
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I enjoyed learning ancient stories in Latin at high school, it made them feel more real. I'm enjoying reading in Irish in your story book, have just got to the stage where I know a little and the engaging story makes me want to guess what's going on, it's really expanding my knowledge. Go raibh maith agat, Olly.
Bene. Luca Ranieri singing. Funny 😆 His videos help viewers speak Latin. Related to Reason 10 Grammar. Cases to be exact. Many more cases than Russian 🇷🇺 or German 🇩🇪, which I learned. I can apply case thinking to the Asian language I am learning, Tagalog 🇵🇭. Reason 12 is for Christians ✝️. To read and respond to Latin in churches ⛪. Latin is especially helpful in the Catholic Church ⛪, my religion. From prayers 🙏, to The Bible, to formal address by The Pope, Latin helps. It is the key 🔑
i am learning 2 languages at once its hard but one for love and one for fun if you want a gangster language Chinese is the way if you ask me mix in Finnish and you are set
I'm not so familiar with Latin (can guess meanings via romance languages) but I speak Hungarian which also has those infinitely nested sentence structures. Administrations love to use them and my head hurts every time I read those.
Ollie, I ran across a text of latin poetry with the back up vocabulary in the back. The reader had to figure out the conjugationd and declinsion matters from Latin class.
And the most important reason, the latin is the base language of the romance languages, such as spanish,french,Italian, portuguese,etc. I speak a latin evolved version,the spanish.
I'm afraid that most of the arguments, if not all, apply to other languages as well, including languages which are in use in our day and age. If you want intricate sentences and declensions, why not learn German? If you want even more complicated morphology and grammar, why not learn Russian? If you want to get a better grip on the latinate part of English, any romance language will do, and if you want to expand your cultural horizons, any foreign language will do. Latin is great for people who like to learn languages for their own sake, without expecting practical rewards. If it's fun for you to learn Latin, go ahead.
I'm a huge fan looking forward to your videos. Can I kindly ask that your pic not always look like a blow-up doll. I'm sure some algorithm says you'll get more clicks but c'mon. If we were good friends that would be my suggestion. And again I say please interview people before and after learning a language
Japanese uses English words in katakana and writes complete English sentences with no spaces but puting points between words just like classical Latin used to be written エンギリス•イズ•クリンジ
Latin actually helps with English grammar by dealing with declensions, conjugations and all the other stuff English teachers never seemed to bother with when I was at school, much to the Latin teacher's despair.
German helps much more, beacause english is closer with german grammar than latin grammar. Latin helps those who speak romance languages like portuguse, spanish, french...
How dead is Latin? Watch this and let me know what you think! 👉🏼 ruclips.net/video/Xf5Wp_zuLGo/видео.html
Just bones are left, half way to fossilization.
Totally wrong.
Should learn Greek. Relevant, alive, and great weather and culture. Really it's a no-brainer.
Anyone who sings in a Choral society finds it helpful to have learned Latin to understand what all those Masses, Requiems and Magnificats are about!
Latin is the official language of the Roman Catholic Church
@John which proves exactly how dead and pointless it is.
As a Ancient Roman general I see this as an absolute win
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I'm Catholic. The prayer, "Hail Holy Queen," is nice, but hearing someone sing, "Salve, Regina," always brings tears to my eyes. The power of Latin to stir the emotions.
I feel the same way about things like Christmas Carols (e.g. Adeste Fideles). I suspect that it's less the Latin as much as the fact that these things were originally written in Latin, making the translation a poor window on the original meaning and poetry. Another reason to learn Latin so that one can understand and appreciate the original version.
Up to the present, Latin is the official language of the Roman Catholic Church... stay safe and God bless!
YES! EXACTLY HOW I FEEL!
Funny enough, we sang the Salve Regina after Mass today, not a regular occurrence. And it did bring tears to my eyes.
My dad is Jewish and my mother is catholic. And I work in the sciences. I’m working to learn Latin. And Greek.
Latin isn't dead. It's immortal. Great video. Cheers!
I'm Croatian, studied Latin in high school for two years. It was an obligatory subject and it's incredible how much it helped me in learning Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, it gave me a basis in vocabulary. I speak Croatian, English, Spanish, Portuguese and can manage in Arabic and Japanese to smaller extent. I still remember lots of Latin proverbs back from the high school. Also, I'm Catholic and I find prayers and hymns beautiful and hearing a prayer in Latin makes it more spiritual at the same time. Greetings!
You probably speak only Croatian and English
@@99Gara99well an average croatian probably doesn't speak more than 2 anyway. Latin isn't actively used, and it's studied for only the first 2 years of most high schools... unless you go to a high school with a classical program, in which youll be learning latin and greek for all 4 years of high school
Interestingly, when I was visiting the Philippines more than 10 years ago, there were Catholic seminarians studying and practicing Latin
Yes I’m learning Latin for catholicism
@viewer9058Where did I say that Latin is "nearer" to God? God created and inspired all the languages and it just so happened that Latin was the main language of the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church inherited it from Rome.
half of these clips are Scorpio Martianus, his voice in latin is so distinct
He's also the teacher on Olly's Latin course ;)
I… do not yet know what significance this statement holds. So I have no choice, other than to believe you. It sounds right.
My basic knowledge of Latin has been incredibly useful in learning Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (and Italian has helped improve my latin too), not to mention how much Latin has helped me as a teacher of English, mainly to hispanic speakers. I only wish my school hadn't abolished it after studying for only 1 term at school!! So many academics and clerics sadly manage to kill Latin completely when they speak it without intonation or feeling, but Italian Latin speakers are great at bringing it to life (and a few great RUclipsrs too!) Vivat Latin!!
I learned Latin on my own in high school, I kept studying it on and off ever since. It vastly improved my vocabulary in English and in Spanish. I am native speaker of both Spanish and English - bilingual. Teaching Latin to Hispanics in the United States is a great idea because it would boost their confidence/egos when they are learning Latin, see how English has borrowed essentially 30-60% of its vocabulary directly/indirectly from Latin. Latin sounds very Spanish-like, as well. It would make the spanish speakers proud of their language Spanish for looking/sounding quite similar to Latin. Just my 2 cents.
I minored in classics (Latin literature) and now teach computer science. #9 makes a lot of sense to me. The nested structures in modern programming languages are perfect analogs to the grammatical system (conjugations and declensions) of Romance languages.
I didn't really understand English grammar until I studied Latin. Having it all laid out in the case and declension systems made it finally click. Latin isn't the only language that does this, but this is yet another of its benefits.
How do Latin cases help you understand English grammar, given that English doesn't have cases? I would say that learning ANY foreign language helps you understand the grammar of your language, because it makes you aware that your language has a very specific 'logic' but other forms of 'logic' are possible, and what appeared as obvious becomes interesting. You become aware that there's something to understand, whereas previously everything appeared to go without saying.
cases are used in German and English is a Germanic language , but in 1066 the Normans conquered England and forced French onto the English so that most of the case system was eliminated from the modern English language
@@edwardmacnab354 I don't think the disappearence of cases in English has much to do with French being "forced onto the English". There was already a weakening of the case system which went on for several centuries and is a natural process which happened in other Germanic languages (even German has much less of a case system as Old High German did, and in some German dialects there's even less case distinctions).
@@frenchimp Because the case system makes function explicit.
Take the sentence "the boy gives the girl the book." Three nouns and a verb. The nouns have the role of a subject, an object, and an indirect object. If you already know English grammar, it's a very straightforward sentence. The trick is, you have to get there first.
With the Latin version "puer puellae librum dat", it's all in plain sight. The roles are literally tacked on to the nouns visually, with the case endings. Puer is the subject, because it's in the nominative. Librum is the object because it's in the accusative. Puellae is the indirect object because it's in the dative.
Learning the case system, what the cases are, what they do, doing translations, laid bare what English grammar was doing in a less obvious way.
@@frenchimp good to know , but my question would be , how does understanding cases help @carlos_takeshi understand English Grammar better ? being an English speaker from the start I am clueless as to how English actually works and see it as a mish mash of very complicated ways of doing things that one just feels as correct. I should add that German is impossibly complicated with a Huge weight of Grammar to learn , at least for me , and the same goes for Latin .
I'm picking up Latin again. As a non-native English speaker, it amazes me how I go, "Frater... brother... OHHH like fraternity!" Amazing. I'm excited for my Latin journey. Thank you for this video.
Learn Latin to take part in the Tridentine Catholic Mass where the language is pre-dominantly used, they’ve maintained the liturgy in Latin for many many centuries!
He specifically didn't emphasize the religious / parochial aspect of Latin. He wants people to learn and enjoy Latin regardless of religion. So-speaking of Western Classical Music-not just Mass and Requiem, but also _Carmina Burana._ After all, Latin predates Christianity by about 700 years.
@@nHans I figured he missed another key aspect of the Latin language… it’s hard to get everything in one video.
@@cb8655 That's true. To keep the video to a reasonable length, he has picked the 11 most compelling reasons out of-what I'm sure must've been-a much longer list. Either way, he didn't mention that Catholic Churches have Mass in Latin.
He also didn't mention _O Fortuna_ from _Carmina Burana._ I was sure he'd play it-it's a very popular piece of music-and then point out that it's in Latin. (For other languages, he does mention music as a compelling reason to learn the language.) I'm guessing it's because there isn't a lot of secular music with Latin lyrics if you exclude Mass and Requiem.
He did mention Mel Gibson's _The Passion of the Christ._ I'm again guessing-it's because there aren't many other movies containing substantial dialogs in Latin.
Of course, every movie has a small amount of Latin, usually a short phrase or sentence like _carpe diem, in vino veritas, Semper Fi, et cetera._ But those don't require you to learn Latin. Even the movie _Quo Vadis_ was wholly in English. _Monty Python's Life of Brian_ had a bit more Latin, but still not enough.
So ... do you know Latin? If not, are you planning to learn?
I've been coding since about 1979. I think one advantage of writing code over Latin is that programming languages don't have irregular morphology.
unless of course you are programming in Perl
@@edwardmacnab354 Vera. In Perlo plus est uno modo facere.
@@edwardmacnab354 ... where line noise is syntactically admissible but semantically meaningless.
After latin I'm going for Russian or Arabic slowly building my confidence up for Indian and African languages
i am a biologist. i took latin in college. just to make it easier to remember the traits of living groups. it is easier to remember all their traits, if you know what the group name means
to which my professor said: finally, a good reason
I am a programmer and I speak Latin, though I learned Koine Greek before Latin.
I once saw a bumper sticker "VIVIT LINGUA LATINA". I understood it immediately, but took several seconds to recognize the language. (I grew up hearing French and Spanish and can transmute words from one to the other.)
“VIVIT LINGUA LATINA” is very similar to “VIVE LENGUA LATINA” (Spanish).
If your native language is Spanish, Latin is very easy for you... the grammar in particular, a piece of cake. I know both, since Latin was mandatory when I was little.
Was this in the US? In the US, if I see the word "Latina," I would assume that it's referring to a woman or something from Latin America.
@@nHansLingua Latina = Latin language. Latin America is called that because they speak Romance languages, which are languages descended from Latin. Don't get confused!
@@utopianforce7895 Now I'm more confused than ever 🤪- so Québec and Louisiana are considered Latin America? Justin Trudeau, Justin Bieber, Brendan Fraser, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Al Capone, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci are Latinos? Céline Dion, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Avril Lavigne, Ariana Grande, Madonna, Marisa Tomei, and Sofia Coppola are Latinas? Naah, doesn't sound right. 🤔
@@nHans I guess Romance is a scientific term which wasn't known to the people who coined the phrase 'Latin America'.
One of the reasons I love Latin is actually because I love english. Shakespear, Herman Melville. All of these things you will understand better with Latin.
Beautiful video. I learnt Latin as child in school and I loved it. I come from a town that was founded by the Romans (Augustus). Roman history has always been present. I'd really like to try out one of these Latin emersion programs. 😊😊
I haven't seen a single minute of this video but I already love it just for the thumbnail, the more people believing in Latin's life, the better!
wow, you used videos from a local private school i knew people and a vid from classical conversations which is what i did for high school. so cool.
Studied Classics for my undergrad (taught myself Latin). After graduating, I became worried about employment and so taught myself to code for 6 months and got a developer job.
I can say without hesitation that the close study of languages such as Latin and Greek seems to have aided learning to code. You have to make deductions as if in a fog and these deductions are made while holding a ton of information in your mind - both coding and the ancient languages require this!
When I was in college, I studied Greek. I know it sounds weird, but I wanted a language that would force me to learn a new alphabet. 😊
Me with Japanese. 😂
I studied some Greek for the same reason but I basically just learned the alphabet and then went to German.
Same here ... but Urdu and Persian!
I think my language choices may have had the same motivation - Latin, Greek, Russian, Chinese. My favorite Dr. Seuss book was On Beyond Zebra. Spent most of high school creating my own language - dragged Roget's [non-alphabetical] Thesaurus around with me everywhere looking for patterns and relationships.
@@gedharrison47 ive always thought Persian might be interesting
Wow, this video blew my mind! I have been trying to decide on a second language to learn.
My final 3 choices based on how they flow and sound were, Japanese, French or Latin. I'm 💯 on Latin now.
Omg, Boy, are you reading my mind?
I've been thinking about studying latin today
Good morning. I am so pleased to have come across your channel. I have thought about learning at least some Latin, but I found no resources except a very old grammar textbook. I am 81 years of age and looking for something interesting to take on. I loved hearing it spoken. So, here I go! At some point I will let you know how it is going. Thank you. I like your enthusiasm.
3:10 can we pause a little and appreciate the girl's fantastic penmanship? In an age when cursive is is turning into a form of cryptography, to see the sweet way she takes notes is wholesome.
I had 4 years of Latin in the early 1970s. my high school Latin teacher said an educated man does not have to know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it. your person who gave a reason to know Latin quoted the beginning. of the Aeneid.
Arma virumque cano.
This video has inspired me to start Latin again, I did it for 8 academic years during school, and wasn't too bad at it. 10 years ago I bought 'Gwynnes Latin', and started memorizing declensions etc, but then dropped it. I don't know if I'll start it again, but I feel like it right now. Thanks
I have had SOOOO much help from my latin knowledge! Botanics, languages, medicine, weird company names and so on!
My motivation for learning Latin is theological in nature. Absolutely, it would be wonderful to read the classical poets, but much of the theological writings in church history are also in Latin. I was reading Charles Hodge's Systematic Theology, which was written in the 19th Century, and there are large sections in Latin that I cannot read.
I'm a professional software engineer, currently a Principal Engineer at a big tech company. I love Latin, having studied it for 3 semesters in college, but I would not use Latin to get better at programming. Whatever you might learn from such an exercise, there are easier ways to learn through more direct methods.
I may have stumbled on my new favourite channel 🎉
If you want to listen to Latin then just listen to Helium Vola. Their lyrics are mostly Vulgar Latin/old forms of Romance (and Germanic) languages. Beautiful singing on top of that!✨
I’m an English teacher and I teach morphology deriving from Latin and Greek. Education is big on this the last few years.
my favorite cicero quote was about octavian, who later became emperor augustus--'the young man must be flattered, used, and pushed aside.'
It didn't work, though.
Maltese (4:50) is a semitic lanuage. It took lots of Latin however
It's derived primarily from Arabic, but with a long history of italian (?) and then english colonialism, it's taken a lot of romance and then english words.
I’m so glad that I found this channel. Thank you!
I program a lot, and I am thinking of learning Latin. Very intriguing.
It helps. I did only one year of Latin in High School, helped a lot to open my mind to natural and programming languages.
@@waltermessines5181how so? I'm also a programmer, but I don't think it has helped me at all. They're just totally different.
Romance languages are closer to each other than they are to Latin. Currently learning Romanian and recently I heard the word 'parete' = wall, which is 'pared' in Spanish and 'parede' in Portuguese. I know a lot of French and some Italian. Latin can be fun, but if you resurrected an ancient Roman and dropped him off in a Romance country, he wouldn't understand a lot at first.
Great video! About culture & literature, need to add the huge amount of books written in Latin during the middle age, when it was the European lingua franca...
In college i was the academic assistant in biblical Greek i helped seminary students with their Greek New Testament exegesis work.
Love this video but if you speak a germanic/latin based language already try Esperanto, incredibly easy to learn.
I'd say Esperanto's grammar is fairly easy to grasp but the vocabulary is just as much of a slog as it is in any other language.
I did the Duolingo course for the whole of lockdown just to stay sane but unless you like talking to yourself it's not easy to become fluent.
Mi povas paroli Esperanton iomete. Estas malfacila sed mi satas gin.😎
@@ironjade i have used esperanto to understand people from russia and japan, we didn’t speak each other’s language but through esperanto we understood each other
@@lakesheppard6129 Excellent. That's the reason it was invented.
Hello, am new subscriber. Thank you for this great content
I already speak English, French, and Spanish. I wonder if learning Latin will be simple for me
You'll recognize a lot of vocabulary but grammar will be harder. Especially if you don't speak a language with noun cases.
@@mep6302I second this especially the latter. Thai is my mother tongue and it was difficult enough for me when I first tried to learn French but now, with the declensions of Latin, I’m overwhelmed😂😂
Fun fact! 'Audio' and 'Video' are imported direct from Latin! So are 'junior', 'senior', 'monitor'... quite a lot of 'or words in fact.
I sang in the Carmina Burana which is German/Latin - challenging music as well as understanding the lyrics
As someone who started out in programming and datasci/compsci and is now reading through Hobbitus Illē, my answer is a resounding, and emphatic CERTĒ!!
Ive got a basic knowledge of Latin, its just cool to have. I can still read basic sentances but thats about it.
Im around a B1-B2 level in French right now, but after seeing this video Ill make it my mission to learn Latin (After a couple others of course)!!!
I am a Python Engineer and I am currently learning Latin.
As Catholic and native Spanish-speaking person: Latin has never died.
That's interesting that Catholics learn Latin but never the language of Jesus peace be upon him, which is Aramaic.
Aramaic is not a dead language, though. There are middle eastern Catholics who speak it to this day.
C'mon Olly. Frisian next please. I want to read Beowulf in the original. And need a linguistic workout beforehand.
Beowulf is best read in the original Klingon 😅
Interesting... Archivist is an excellent example of a word with multiple correct pronunciations. ;)
I'm a software developer who studied Latin in college! 😁
Did you enjoy it?
@@storylearning I loved it! One of my favorite classes. I even kept all the books and at some point (after I get my French up to full working proficiency/B2) I'll probably go back through them for a refresher.
I Will do my best to truly learn it! Study latin in january at chatolic institution. Wish me Good luck . Super cool with old languages
Speaking of the Gauls can u do a video on Scottish Gaelic or Celtic languages
Should I study old german too?
In the video you said about a two weeks immersive course in Rome, I would like more information about that kind of programs
First time finding the argument that studying latin is similar to learning programming! - after studying medieval latin (loved it) and now starting a study in computer science, most of the people don't understand that it is not the opposite of topics u can do...
6:18 I haven't expected a clip from a Polish production -that makes my happy and proud. 😏
I listen to music in Latin often and man we could use more Latin speaking song writers out there. It’s like 75% of song lyrics are taken from the carmina burana or from like the 12th century (I don’t speak Latin btw, but I can sing you numerous songs in it lol)
I would love to, but at the same time it feels like it is more useful and important to continue german, and then maybe spanish.
I can confirm all the statements in this video clip. Seven years of Latin in middle school actually helped me later, when I actually came to programming unplanned, as I can say in retrospect. As a retiree, I will turn away from technology again to ancient languages like Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, and Sumerian (can one learn Sumerian at all?), unless Alois Alzheimer hits me.
You spent 7 years in middle school? (I'm a programmer.)
@@lynnedavidson4772 probably meant starting in middle school. grade 6-12 is 7 years
@@__D10S__ I figured; but if nothing else Latin taught me to pay attention to what's actually said. 🙃
Parallel texts are useful.
Mexicano Beverly Hills Downey California. We speak Spanglish , 1980. Eric Estrada “CHIPS” was first Spanglish speaker on tv. Today, we have Latino Asians speaking Asianglish. Frank Martinez Downey California ❤❤❤❤
I'm home educating and I'd love to start learning with my 7 year old! Any great resources for kids? 🙏🏽
I enjoyed learning ancient stories in Latin at high school, it made them feel more real. I'm enjoying reading in Irish in your story book, have just got to the stage where I know a little and the engaging story makes me want to guess what's going on, it's really expanding my knowledge. Go raibh maith agat, Olly.
Bene. Luca Ranieri singing. Funny 😆
His videos help viewers speak Latin.
Related to Reason 10 Grammar. Cases to be exact. Many more cases than Russian 🇷🇺 or German 🇩🇪, which I learned.
I can apply case thinking to the Asian language I am learning, Tagalog 🇵🇭.
Reason 12 is for Christians ✝️. To read and respond to Latin in churches ⛪. Latin is especially helpful in the Catholic Church ⛪, my religion. From prayers 🙏, to The Bible, to formal address by The Pope, Latin helps. It is the key 🔑
6:18 the Polish pronounciation of Latin is very close to the original, yet I will always recognize a fellow countryman.
Latin isn't dead anymore.
As long as a language is used on a regular conversation, it became alived.
i am learning 2 languages at once its hard but one for love and one for fun if you want a gangster language Chinese is the way if you ask me mix in Finnish and you are set
Maltese is a semitic language, it has little to do with Latin - although it was heavily influenced by Italian.
All Latin roads lead to Luke Ranieri.
Ranieri is the rock star of the YT Latin world, but if you want real Latin resources and teaching, Daniel Petersson is the GOAT
No, they don't.
Not gonna lie, i’m tempted now
At age 62 I am teaching myself Latin so I can read an old herbal. Staving off dementia is a bonus.
Latin is alive. In Italia when you want say to a horse "go" , we say "ii". It's the imperative verb of "eo" that is "go! go!". Ciao
I studied Greek and Latin in high school. Invaluable. Law School was much easier. Now, I’m teaching my children.
Subordinate clauses on top of subordinate clauses
I speak Spanish and I have not even realized all of these grammar and structures we have until now. All Latin has Spanish too.
Spanish ❤️
subjunctive in Spanish became easy when I learnt subjunctive in Latin. And in Latin it was used more often
15:10 The same could be said for pretty much most other languages tho
I'm not so familiar with Latin (can guess meanings via romance languages) but I speak Hungarian which also has those infinitely nested sentence structures. Administrations love to use them and my head hurts every time I read those.
Can you please make a video for 11 reasons to learn Russian?
I would learn it but I don't want to learn from teachers with a very hard American accent lol
Ollie, I ran across a text of latin poetry with the back up vocabulary in the back.
The reader had to figure out the conjugationd and declinsion matters from Latin class.
VENI VIDI VICI!
A latin verb asked a latin noun if it would like to conjugate, but the noun declined.. robertus molloiarum.
And the most important reason, the latin is the base language of the romance languages, such as spanish,french,Italian, portuguese,etc. I speak a latin evolved version,the spanish.
00:23 Vergil
I'm afraid that most of the arguments, if not all, apply to other languages as well, including languages which are in use in our day and age. If you want intricate sentences and declensions, why not learn German? If you want even more complicated morphology and grammar, why not learn Russian? If you want to get a better grip on the latinate part of English, any romance language will do, and if you want to expand your cultural horizons, any foreign language will do. Latin is great for people who like to learn languages for their own sake, without expecting practical rewards. If it's fun for you to learn Latin, go ahead.
As an English speaker, my high-school Latin garnered practical rewards via my SAT scores.
Russian grammar is not more difficult than latin. I think this case, both are equally complicaded.
Wow latin sounds really cool. To my ears it sounds the closest to italian compared to other romance languages but, I’m no language expert. Haha
Somehow I've forgotten almost everything except "caesar adsum iam forte, pompeius aderat. caesar sic in omnibus, pompeius inis at." 😂
I'm a huge fan looking forward to your videos. Can I kindly ask that your pic not always look like a blow-up doll. I'm sure some algorithm says you'll get more clicks but c'mon. If we were good friends that would be my suggestion. And again I say please interview people before and after learning a language
Why no Latin Subtitles?
Was that first guy reciting the Latin lesson from Spring Awakening?
Eu falo português e amo o idioma latino
Non mortua est
ita ^u^
6 years of Latin in the '60s => 30 programmer/data analyst (and yes, diagramming sentences in grammer school was fun)
Japanese uses English words in katakana and writes complete English sentences with no spaces but puting points between words just like classical Latin used to be written
エンギリス•イズ•クリンジ
If you want to write good code you should not abuse nesting but rather write it clearer like in non-latin languages.
Please make a video on Polish.
Definitely , that would be a great fun for me as I' m of Polish origin ( Krakow)
Latin actually helps with English grammar by dealing with declensions, conjugations and all the other stuff English teachers never seemed to bother with when I was at school, much to the Latin teacher's despair.
German helps much more, beacause english is closer with german grammar than latin grammar. Latin helps those who speak romance languages like portuguse, spanish, french...