Learning Latin was actually a family requirement for me and my sister. We were never told why, but we were taught it from a young age. My family would all speak it around strangers or guest when they didnt want to bother them or make situations akward. Me and my sister always had fun with it though, and we would speak it in school when we just wanted private conversations. Love the language though, and I think it needs more credit. Est pars mundi historiam, et in gloria eius
Sadly my grandpa was the only one who spoke it and he was teaching my 2 older aunts but once his mother passed he never spoke it again only prayed in latin and he died before I could learn.
Exactly!!! I am currently learning it and people always ask me 'why learn a dead language?'. Well first off, it isn't dead, as this video proves, and second, because it's cool as you said!!
Hebrew was technically considered 'extinct' 100 years ago, or "exclusively liturgical" if you like, just as Latin was. It was the subject of a revivalist movement. So if enough speakers begin to use it Latin may be similarly revived, although the resulting language, like any language, would then become its own lexical universe that would surely mystify ancient Romans as much as ancient Hebrews would be dumbfounded to hear people today complain about the traffic in Tel Aviv. ;) Within a few hundred years it may end up as just the most recent Latin offshoot, once again becoming distant from the original Latin. :) Ironically when things are 'dead' or 'dormant', they tend to fossilize more, whereas when they are alive they begin to morph. Certainly it is a very worthy endeavour to keep our understanding of Latin alive, in any case. I'm glad to see people being passionate about it. :)
Working towards gaining (some might say 'stealing') a home country is really what solidified the Hebrew revivalist movement. Somehow a language being attached to a nation gives it a perceived justification. Same for Welsh, but not quite so much for Cornish which is an enclave ensconced in a majority English speaking land. Esperanto on the other hand, which is also an 'everyone's language', suffers a little from having no 'home'.
My mother taught Latin in the 1930s using the "direct method"--conversation, like you, presumably taught to do so at Columbia Teachers College. I saw the book when I was a boy
I lived in South America for a few years and became fluent in Spanish. (Born in America and native language is English). The thing that fascinated me about Spanish once I became more fluent is that the Latin structure enables you to say more with less language. English is a very specificity-based language with thousands of different words to describe very small nuances. When you read or write a novel in English, the author can convey to the reader exactly what they want them to see. And don't get me wrong, specificity isn't a bad thing. But in Spanish (ergo the Latin structure) the language opens up more to the imagination of the listener. I can simply say, "Mi amor por ti, profundisimo es," and on the surface it means "My love for you is very deep." But when given to the imagination, the word "por" also means "because", and thus the phrase can also mean, "My love, because of you, is incredibly deep." And because the word "profundisimo" means very deep, but doesn't specify the degree of how deep it is, it can be substituted with any similar word. Thus the phrase can mean, "My love for you is vastly deep", "My love for you is incredibly deep", "My love for you, like the ocean, is unfathomably deep." Anyway, point being, learning another language has greatly benefitted my life AND has helped me improve my native tongue. I came across one of your other channels on TH-cam, and it brought back that spark of learning to convey thoughts and ideas in ways outside one's own convention. Language opens pathways in the mind. Anyone who tells you it's pointless to learn a new one "that you'll never use" doesn't understand the benefit of teaching the mind new ways to think and understand.
I live in the Philippines and I started liking Latin when I visited my uncle in our province and the elders pray in Latin for a 40-day ritual of my relative's death... they sounded heavenly and as if I understand them though I can't... im still learning the basics of latin though! Thnx for our dedication polymathy :)
@@kevinmasalangoy5028 i just watch latin language tutorials like this...during the 1st week of ecq, i finished first 5 lessons, i forgot the video channel but it's like this channel...
@@ericgabrielmadrid8426 yeah, but i normally dont pray with scripts, i want free verse though, but i like latin songs like songs from the church, the hymns and libera!!!
Because of the Spanish period there's a surprising amount of neo-latin written by Filipinos There's am epic latin poem written by a native Filipino to commemorate a naval victory in the 1700s I think
Reading through the comments it was so cool to notice how you keep responding to new ones, even after 2 years. I just got to know both of your channels and you're so inspiring. I started taking latin in college (majoring in french) and I just fell in love with it.
It is great to see a content creator who replies years later; many times I have a question about a video and, understandably for sure, the creator has moved on; I get that. But it does sadden me to see in Luke's channels, very little or no new Latin or Latin related content for the last couple of years, especially the live immersion discussions I was hoping to participate in. But he did these for nearly 15 years and, I suppose, it gets repetitive for him. Luke, I do appreciate all you've given to the community. Even though that content ages, it will never get dated.
Lol when you said "friendships" at the end of the video I legit heard "French hips" and I was like "hold on what?!" You're so right about when something is untranslatable it truly is part of the language. Nowhere can you see that more than with humor. I'm Romanian, and I've lived in Norway for a number of years now. I have two Norwegian flatmates. What I miss most about Romania is the humor. There are certain expressions in Romanian that just come into my mind when I experience situations here in Norway, and I start to tell my Norwegian flatmates, but halfway through I figure out that I can't really translate that, and certainly not in a way that will make it click for my flatmates in the same way it would for another Romanian person. It makes me feel frustrated, but at the same time a little smug. This joke is "mine", you'd have to be Romanian to get it. "Why are you laughing?" "Mh, just... Romanian things".
It’s all about the people!! The Latin-speaking community sounds amazing and something I’d like to be a part of! Now I have even more motivation to keep learning. Thanks for giving us a glimpse into this world!
I'm currently trying to convince my friends and family to learn Latin, and as one of them said he only wants to learn a language he can use to connect with people, this will be an excellent argument. Thank you! P.S. You have a wonderful voice
It makes me so incredibly happy to know all of that exists! When I first thought about learning to speak Latin (because I love the language), I really didn't expect that.
I just came across this Latin speaking movement and I am delighted! Now I'm digging out my old school Latin and I got the Duolingo course, for now... I wanna be part of the thing :)
You had me from “Salvete.”. Luke, you’re amazing! All I intended to do today was buff up my childhood Missa Brevis. But you’ve got me buying the Ponte Brooklyn! Erat Stupor Mundi.
Latin is compulsory for the 8th grade (the last grade of middle school) here in Romania. After that, I went to a philology high school, and studied four more years. It's sad to say, but I couldn't fully appreciate the language and culture at the time. It was partly because of the curriculum and partly because the class setting (more than 20 people, who had varying degrees of interest in the subject starting as low as 0%) didn't allow me to explore what I wanted or ask about what interested me, because it would have taken time from the class. After I finished university, I started reading increasingly more ancient roman cultural history, and now I'm interested in every facet of ancient Rome.
I had to learn Latin and Ancient Greek in one of the last remaining "normal" "classical" Austrian schools in the late 80s, early 90s. Although our first introduction to the Latin language had included things like the greeting routine of "Salve discipuli!" - "Salve magistra!" - "Considite!" (we had to stand while waiting for our teachers), talking never really took off and I always was sad about this. In the very first exams we had to translate simple sentences from german to latin, which was quite fun. Later on we only read and translated classical authors and especially poets. At least back than in Austria we did not use the classical restored version, also not the Italian version, but the German tradition of pronunciation, which is also used in the catholic church in Austria. And as in Armenia they use the same pronunciation, I think, this pronunciation might be more than just the German tradition? Several decades later (a few years ago) I came into contact with the Austrian LARP world. Most events take place in the world "Whenua" and there English is used as the language of the elves, and Latin as the language of the well educated. As part of a mercenary unit I had tried to establish Latin as command language ("efficite aciem!"), but was not too successful, as hardly any one knows Latin (although not all, but many of those people have at least a fundamental interest in history) let alone can speak it. I also myself have very limited skill in it. At least I understand most of what you say in your videos.
I think that a person, like this knight Luke impresses even the most cultured and brilliant people. Is amazing this channel. Latin and Greek are important, this content is fantastic.
Today I joined the Latin & Greek Chats for my very first time. I felt welcome, indeed, but my oh my how little I know! Thanks so much for this video; I have been looking for such a source for a very long time.
I'd just like to address this channel in thanks for the wonderful lessons and interesting, thought provoking notions brought up in these videos! I'm a student of Latin. So far, I'm going into Latin 2 in high-school, after having passed at the top of my Latin 1 class. I've already learned so much, and it helps me to speak Spanish a lot easier as well as other more foreign languages to me. The amazing thing about today's latin classes is that they don't teach you cognate and words to just read. They teach pronunciation, they teach connotation and grammar preferences, which i think is amazing, because you can literally take a class to be able to speak latin near-fluently as many modern day latin teachers i have seen can. Quoque hablebam in latinae cum rhetor mihi! It's so fun as well! Just keep up the good work! Love your videos
Hey Logan! So nice to hear from you! Thanks for your generous comments. Have you seen my LLPSI series on my other channel ScorpioMartianus? You'll find it helpful!
‘Oaia aia e a ei, eu i-o iau!’ ‘That sheep is her’s, I’ll take it from her!’ The one sentence in romanian that is formed only by vowels and semivowels also being fully latin based regarding etymology.😁
Your argumentation ist far more convincing than anything I`ve heard from classical philologists in Germany. Fantastic people like you, or Irene from Satura Lanx or Daniel from Latinitium et multi alii have done more for this beautiful language than big philologist's associations. Gratias vobis maximas ago! Bene vertat, quodcumque agitis!
Well, Luke, again, your a great teacher. As I've told you, i hope in not a very long time I´ll feel as confident as to gather Latin speakers forums. Cheers, lovely amicus.
yowza, thanks for the extensive list in the description. Thus is something ive been searching for for a long time. Im dreaming of the day when i can drop into a given city and attend a latin pub night, and eben order a beer from a latin speaking bartender from a menu written in latin.
Some people consider 2020 A.D. to be 2773 A.U.C. 2020 + 753 = 2773 Wait! Was there a year 0? Which years are leap years? 2770, 2771, 2772, 2773, 2774 ... ? Is March the first month? Is February the twelfth or second month? Answers to these questions would alter the Kalends, Nones, and Ides.
That was a great video ! I didn’t know all that stuff about all those podcasts and whatnot. I knew they existed but not their backstories, I mean. Nice for you to know and share it all. I especially want to check out Quomodo Dicitur, it seems the coolest haha. This video was better than I thought it would be, thanks for making this Luke ! 😊
James Martinelli Saecula Saeculorum! I was an altar boy, choir boy and candidate for the seminary. It’s a gorgeous language with lots of soul, I agree, James.
I’m 17, over the past year and a half I’ve gotten to upper B1 Italian and I’m thinking Ima pick up Latin on the side for fun and eventually change over to almost full time Latin.
The point about internalizing a language, “making in yours”, is really well taken. I was in a Near Eastern languages department that grew out of a classics department, and some of the non-native faculty there truly did take a “read-and-translate” approach. (No, you don’t HAVe to be fluent in modern Turkish in order to study Ottoman literature, but as an outgrowth of that language, why would you want to deprive yourself of that?) Like professors of Ancient Greek who look down their noses at Modern Greek…except that it’s only been a century since the last incarnation of Ottoman was abolished. Learning the spoken language is like bringing the color back into a black-and-white scene.
There has been at least one native Latin speaker in recent times. The Russian-American musician Nicholas Slonimsky (1894-1995) spoke only Latin to his daughter Electra for the first 5 years of her life (a practice that she has described to an interviewer as a clear case of child abuse (I wish I had been so abused)). Electra is still among us, but I cannot say anything regarding her present competence in the Latin language.
the comment about latin teachers reminds me of this one time in middle school during latin class, the other latin teacher came in to ask my teacher something, and she asked him it in latin and he replied in latin - and then the spanish teacher came in and joined the conversation. pretty sure even at the time they staged it but it was still so impressive lol
Brilliant video. Just love your channel. Very Inspiring. Also a Star Trek fan? That's so cool! Got a chart of the nuclides and the entire Solar System right there
My reasons for latin: 1) Gotta understand Aquinas in his own terms. Wheter the language his works were tranlated into is not fit for subtelties, or else, the tranlator happens not to know the subject dealt with, as it has become increasilly usual these days, not only for poetry (an old complaint), but for prose too. 2) I deem myself not classical portuguese proficient. By the way, I think that latin is almost impossible to learn by someone that is not first interested in enriching one´s own imagination by literature - I mean, to become a proficient speaker. I´m try my best: studing the pronoun lessons by now - tons of them. The right motivation is crucial, and the right one is the one that works. "Sapo não pula por boniteza, mas por percisão" - says the peasant in my country and me along: Necessitas est mater inventionis! Cheers.
I’ve read that if you study 2 similar languages at the same time, it causes confusion because you inadvertently use words or endings from the other. But people consistently tell me that I’d have an easier time in Latin if I learned Italian also. I would love to hear your opinion on this.
Once you’re a polyglot you don’t have much trouble distinguishing languages. If you drive a new car, you have to get used to it. And with time you can fluently drive both without interference.
@@polyMATHY_Luke Semper Fidelis, amicus meus. Keep up the great work and great content. I don't think I'm alone in saying that you motivate us all to go further in Latin.
I wonder why romance language speakers find easier to understand another romance language, then to understand Latin. For example as native Romanian who also learned French, I understand quite easily slowly spoken Italian, but I understand much less spoken/written Latin, while logically it should have been easier. Maybe the way sentences are composed makes this more difficult, or the multitude of cases ? Other reasons ?
It definitely makes sense though, since all the Romance languages are the product of a form of common Latin that evolved hundreds of years after Classical Latin literature had been standardized in the 1cBC.
you're sexiest when you speaking latín language .I only looked for you channel to be able to listen your latin voice .I'm from México , l think my comment isn't understand pretty good ,sorry , but i love your latin voice !!
Hola querida Ros, y muchísimas gracias por tus amables complementos. 🥰 Tengo otro canal que te gustará: th-cam.com/video/rNw-CS4SIJs/w-d-xo.html Abrazos
3:11 That's true of every language you're trying to learn, imo... When I started learning English as a child, I was babbling and babbling, in a _very_ broken manner, making dozens of mistakes (well, I still am, but maybe not as many 😊) while trying to make myself understood. I too believe that's the only way you can improve.
I never tried to speak Latin, and I guess it's only MEA CULPA that I don't understand it now 😁 And yet I've created an artificial language in which some influences of Latin can be found nonetheless, so I guess I should study Latin a bit more... Silly me ... Oh ERRARE HUMANUM EST, I suppose. 15:40 - Joy of learning a new language. Since English is already a foreign language to me (I'm Dutch) I can confirm that being able to converse with people you'd otherwise be unable to converse with is indeed quite... how to say it... like a new world opens. :)
Are there any recommendable Latin audiobooks out there? I'm looking for something else than just an audio version of a Latin course. Gratias tibi dabo!
The way you speak English - Man there IS something about it. A kind of musical cadence. I am very curious about it. Cannot find articles describing it on the net though. Why is it so "seductive" as some of the other comments say.
How would you recommend starting with Latin for someone who has not studied it at school? I do however speak French, Spanish and some Italian. So hope it helps me.
It is incredible that we have such a language that not only connects people beyond nations but even centuries like that. We can appreciate the works of the past. Future generations can appreciate the works of the past and our works today too in a single language. So we become part of this tradition, just like Issac Newton or Erasmus did (even if we are smaller) as non natives. Captain Jean-Luc Picard knows Latin too, btw :)
You are absolutely right! This is "hūmānitās," the ability to connect to peoples of all ages, the foundation of humanism. Haha, I love Captain Picard for many reasons, and that is certainly one of them! :D
Hell latin is still heavily used in videogames 😅 I came into Latin ironically via Japan, Final Fantasy and even late night anime like Elfen Lied had mysterious and spooky Latin lyrics and words that got me interested.
Gratias tibi ago, care Regule! :D Nempe nomen tuum addidi! Pro dolor hasce imagines vivas mense Maio (!) excepi, et modo heri (tandem!) in TuTubuluo imposui, ergo nomen tuum non sum fassus in ipsa pellicula.
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Learning Latin was actually a family requirement for me and my sister. We were never told why, but we were taught it from a young age. My family would all speak it around strangers or guest when they didnt want to bother them or make situations akward. Me and my sister always had fun with it though, and we would speak it in school when we just wanted private conversations. Love the language though, and I think it needs more credit.
Est pars mundi historiam, et in gloria eius
How awesome!!
I am so jealous! xD I am probably going to do the same with my family!
Sadly my grandpa was the only one who spoke it and he was teaching my 2 older aunts but once his mother passed he never spoke it again only prayed in latin and he died before I could learn.
Did they intend to send you to a monastery? Heh. Regardless, that's pretty epic.
Oh, excellent. I have long since planned to teach my children a 'secret' familial language. (Probably Mongolian.)
Why learn to speak Latin?
Why learn to sing, dance, paint, climb mountains etc? Why learn anything?
Because it's fun.
I did not think I needed more inspiration to learn Latin but damn this was inspiring!
You're so kind! :D
Why learn Latin? Because... I like, isn't enough? You're fascinating
Thank you!
Exactly!!! I am currently learning it and people always ask me 'why learn a dead language?'. Well first off, it isn't dead, as this video proves, and second, because it's cool as you said!!
Lucía Aibao Romo de Arce Cano ..👍👍👍. I always knew it was alive and well. 😊
AMO LINGVAM LATINAM
Hebrew was technically considered 'extinct' 100 years ago, or "exclusively liturgical" if you like, just as Latin was. It was the subject of a revivalist movement. So if enough speakers begin to use it Latin may be similarly revived, although the resulting language, like any language, would then become its own lexical universe that would surely mystify ancient Romans as much as ancient Hebrews would be dumbfounded to hear people today complain about the traffic in Tel Aviv. ;) Within a few hundred years it may end up as just the most recent Latin offshoot, once again becoming distant from the original Latin. :) Ironically when things are 'dead' or 'dormant', they tend to fossilize more, whereas when they are alive they begin to morph. Certainly it is a very worthy endeavour to keep our understanding of Latin alive, in any case. I'm glad to see people being passionate about it. :)
Right! If Latin achieves that state of revival, it would need constast monitoring and re-Classicization.
Working towards gaining (some might say 'stealing') a home country is really what solidified the Hebrew revivalist movement. Somehow a language being attached to a nation gives it a perceived justification. Same for Welsh, but not quite so much for Cornish which is an enclave ensconced in a majority English speaking land. Esperanto on the other hand, which is also an 'everyone's language', suffers a little from having no 'home'.
Excuse me, which language do you speak in Israel? English aside...
@@Ekphrasys Israel was founded in 1948
@@EwaldZero yeah I know that. So?
My mother taught Latin in the 1930s using the "direct method"--conversation, like you, presumably taught to do so at Columbia Teachers College. I saw the book when I was a boy
Dude, why do you seem to be seducing me through the entire video to learn Latin? Haha, now I'm genuinely curious about it.
lol I'm sorry, I just get passionate about this subject. It's nothing personal. 😊
I lived in South America for a few years and became fluent in Spanish. (Born in America and native language is English). The thing that fascinated me about Spanish once I became more fluent is that the Latin structure enables you to say more with less language. English is a very specificity-based language with thousands of different words to describe very small nuances. When you read or write a novel in English, the author can convey to the reader exactly what they want them to see. And don't get me wrong, specificity isn't a bad thing.
But in Spanish (ergo the Latin structure) the language opens up more to the imagination of the listener. I can simply say, "Mi amor por ti, profundisimo es," and on the surface it means "My love for you is very deep." But when given to the imagination, the word "por" also means "because", and thus the phrase can also mean, "My love, because of you, is incredibly deep." And because the word "profundisimo" means very deep, but doesn't specify the degree of how deep it is, it can be substituted with any similar word. Thus the phrase can mean, "My love for you is vastly deep", "My love for you is incredibly deep", "My love for you, like the ocean, is unfathomably deep."
Anyway, point being, learning another language has greatly benefitted my life AND has helped me improve my native tongue. I came across one of your other channels on TH-cam, and it brought back that spark of learning to convey thoughts and ideas in ways outside one's own convention.
Language opens pathways in the mind. Anyone who tells you it's pointless to learn a new one "that you'll never use" doesn't understand the benefit of teaching the mind new ways to think and understand.
I live in the Philippines and I started liking Latin when I visited my uncle in our province and the elders pray in Latin for a 40-day ritual of my relative's death... they sounded heavenly and as if I understand them though I can't... im still learning the basics of latin though! Thnx for our dedication polymathy :)
Hey. I live in Philippines too. What do you use to study latin?
@@kevinmasalangoy5028 i just watch latin language tutorials like this...during the 1st week of ecq, i finished first 5 lessons, i forgot the video channel but it's like this channel...
Nice. Try to pray the rosary in Latin.
@@ericgabrielmadrid8426 yeah, but i normally dont pray with scripts, i want free verse though, but i like latin songs like songs from the church, the hymns and libera!!!
Because of the Spanish period there's a surprising amount of neo-latin written by Filipinos
There's am epic latin poem written by a native Filipino to commemorate a naval victory in the 1700s I think
Reading through the comments it was so cool to notice how you keep responding to new ones, even after 2 years. I just got to know both of your channels and you're so inspiring. I started taking latin in college (majoring in french) and I just fell in love with it.
That’s awesome! And thanks so much. Yeah I try to respond to all of them, but it can be challenging! 😃
It is great to see a content creator who replies years later; many times I have a question about a video and, understandably for sure, the creator has moved on; I get that. But it does sadden me to see in Luke's channels, very little or no new Latin or Latin related content for the last couple of years, especially the live immersion discussions I was hoping to participate in. But he did these for nearly 15 years and, I suppose, it gets repetitive for him.
Luke, I do appreciate all you've given to the community. Even though that content ages, it will never get dated.
Lol when you said "friendships" at the end of the video I legit heard "French hips" and I was like "hold on what?!"
You're so right about when something is untranslatable it truly is part of the language. Nowhere can you see that more than with humor. I'm Romanian, and I've lived in Norway for a number of years now. I have two Norwegian flatmates. What I miss most about Romania is the humor. There are certain expressions in Romanian that just come into my mind when I experience situations here in Norway, and I start to tell my Norwegian flatmates, but halfway through I figure out that I can't really translate that, and certainly not in a way that will make it click for my flatmates in the same way it would for another Romanian person. It makes me feel frustrated, but at the same time a little smug. This joke is "mine", you'd have to be Romanian to get it. "Why are you laughing?" "Mh, just... Romanian things".
It’s all about the people!! The Latin-speaking community sounds amazing and something I’d like to be a part of! Now I have even more motivation to keep learning. Thanks for giving us a glimpse into this world!
I'm currently trying to convince my friends and family to learn Latin, and as one of them said he only wants to learn a language he can use to connect with people, this will be an excellent argument. Thank you!
P.S. You have a wonderful voice
It makes me so incredibly happy to know all of that exists! When I first thought about learning to speak Latin (because I love the language), I really didn't expect that.
It’s a wonderful wonderful community
I just came across this Latin speaking movement and I am delighted!
Now I'm digging out my old school Latin and I got the Duolingo course, for now...
I wanna be part of the thing :)
Me singing classical sacred pieces with my choir 'Ave Verum', 'Ave Maria', 'Adeste Fideles', Laudate Dominum' and so on.
You had me from “Salvete.”. Luke, you’re amazing! All I intended to do today was buff up my childhood Missa Brevis. But you’ve got me buying the Ponte Brooklyn! Erat Stupor Mundi.
Denny Smith oh that’s exciting! Thanks so much, and thanks for telling me! 😃
A bald man speaking Latin is, I must say, weirdly attractive.
👨🦲 Thanks!
*Blushes in Mussolini*
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Goddamnit you've ruined It!😓
Sei,,,,,,,
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Muito bom, Luke!! Sempre muito relevantes seus vídeos!!
E obrigado pelas recomendações!!! Algumas eu ainda não conhecia.
Obrigado, amigo! :) Gratias quod spectasti.
I’m more than halfway through the LLPSI playlist and hearing you speak English was a huge shock lol
Haha fun!
Latin is compulsory for the 8th grade (the last grade of middle school) here in Romania. After that, I went to a philology high school, and studied four more years. It's sad to say, but I couldn't fully appreciate the language and culture at the time. It was partly because of the curriculum and partly because the class setting (more than 20 people, who had varying degrees of interest in the subject starting as low as 0%) didn't allow me to explore what I wanted or ask about what interested me, because it would have taken time from the class. After I finished university, I started reading increasingly more ancient roman cultural history, and now I'm interested in every facet of ancient Rome.
Gratias amicum, Gracias amigo, que similar al Español es Latin, I really enjoy your videos. Valete.
I, as a native Spanish speaker, already wanted to learn Classical Latin. But you gave the energy I needed, amazing bald man!
I had to learn Latin and Ancient Greek in one of the last remaining "normal" "classical" Austrian schools in the late 80s, early 90s. Although our first introduction to the Latin language had included things like the greeting routine of "Salve discipuli!" - "Salve magistra!" - "Considite!" (we had to stand while waiting for our teachers), talking never really took off and I always was sad about this. In the very first exams we had to translate simple sentences from german to latin, which was quite fun. Later on we only read and translated classical authors and especially poets. At least back than in Austria we did not use the classical restored version, also not the Italian version, but the German tradition of pronunciation, which is also used in the catholic church in Austria. And as in Armenia they use the same pronunciation, I think, this pronunciation might be more than just the German tradition?
Several decades later (a few years ago) I came into contact with the Austrian LARP world. Most events take place in the world "Whenua" and there English is used as the language of the elves, and Latin as the language of the well educated. As part of a mercenary unit I had tried to establish Latin as command language ("efficite aciem!"), but was not too successful, as hardly any one knows Latin (although not all, but many of those people have at least a fundamental interest in history) let alone can speak it. I also myself have very limited skill in it. At least I understand most of what you say in your videos.
I wonder whether Luke has ever used this as a way to impress girls lol (or guys).
Haha - girls (I'm straight). And not this video, but I have used this video: th-cam.com/video/ZJa2yTyxBKo/w-d-xo.html
I think that a person, like this knight Luke impresses even the most cultured and brilliant people. Is amazing this channel. Latin and Greek are important, this content is fantastic.
Today I joined the Latin & Greek Chats for my very first time. I felt welcome, indeed, but my oh my how little I know! Thanks so much for this video; I have been looking for such a source for a very long time.
That’s great! Welcome!
I'd just like to address this channel in thanks for the wonderful lessons and interesting, thought provoking notions brought up in these videos! I'm a student of Latin. So far, I'm going into Latin 2 in high-school, after having passed at the top of my Latin 1 class. I've already learned so much, and it helps me to speak Spanish a lot easier as well as other more foreign languages to me. The amazing thing about today's latin classes is that they don't teach you cognate and words to just read. They teach pronunciation, they teach connotation and grammar preferences, which i think is amazing, because you can literally take a class to be able to speak latin near-fluently as many modern day latin teachers i have seen can. Quoque hablebam in latinae cum rhetor mihi! It's so fun as well! Just keep up the good work! Love your videos
Hey Logan! So nice to hear from you! Thanks for your generous comments. Have you seen my LLPSI series on my other channel ScorpioMartianus? You'll find it helpful!
@@polyMATHY_Luke now that I've looked up, I'm probably going to binge it😂😂😂😂 thank you so much!
Glad you show your support for Mars!
That's right! I am Scorpiō Mārtiānus, after all. 🦂
Why do you sounds like a native speaker of Latin! Your amazing! Dominus vobiscum!!!!
That’s very kind of you! Thanks!
You know what! i feel now ready to learn latin , thank you❤.
‘Oaia aia e a ei, eu i-o iau!’
‘That sheep is her’s, I’ll take it from her!’
The one sentence in romanian that is formed only by vowels and semivowels also being fully latin based regarding etymology.😁
“raeda in fossa est” is itself an inside joke harkening back to the Ecce Romani textbook series.
raeda ADHUC in fossa est
The wheel is on the ditch intelego quid scriptis salve
Non Longa Via Est Roma in the intro background, love it! 😆
You seem like the open-minded, intelligent, curious and kind friend anybody should have in their community. Be well and keep spreading the message.
Your argumentation ist far more convincing than anything I`ve heard from classical philologists in Germany. Fantastic people like you, or Irene from Satura Lanx or Daniel from Latinitium et multi alii have done more for this beautiful language than big philologist's associations. Gratias vobis maximas ago! Bene vertat, quodcumque agitis!
Well, Luke, again, your a great teacher. As I've told you, i hope in not a very long time I´ll feel as confident as to gather Latin speakers forums. Cheers, lovely amicus.
You’re a great orator! So well placed within the context of your fascination 😂
Thank you!
yowza, thanks for the extensive list in the description. Thus is something ive been searching for for a long time. Im dreaming of the day when i can drop into a given city and attend a latin pub night, and eben order a beer from a latin speaking bartender from a menu written in latin.
Some people consider 2020 A.D. to be 2773 A.U.C.
2020 + 753 = 2773
Wait! Was there a year 0?
Which years are leap years? 2770, 2771, 2772, 2773, 2774 ... ?
Is March the first month? Is February the twelfth or second month?
Answers to these questions would alter the Kalends, Nones, and Ides.
learned it through gregorian chants and Tridentine Mass. I will surely teach my daughter latin :)
Great! Use my videos to do so: th-cam.com/video/j7hd799IznU/w-d-xo.html 😊
The phrase that comes to mind is “Not dead as in forgotten, but dead as in immortalized”.
Thank you for bringing Latin to life!
Hello! I really like your programs. You tell everything very interestingly. И я решил тоже изучать латынь. Слушаю вас с большим удовольствием.
I subscribed to you channel, I find your endeavor to be very interesting.
Also, did anyone ever told you that you look like Handsome Squidward?
What a voice!
Aw thank you!
Ha!! I’m not alone! This is exactly what I have been looking for!! Subscribed!!
Welcome!
That was a great video ! I didn’t know all that stuff about all those podcasts and whatnot. I knew they existed but not their backstories, I mean. Nice for you to know and share it all. I especially want to check out Quomodo Dicitur, it seems the coolest haha. This video was better than I thought it would be, thanks for making this Luke ! 😊
Well, naturally Legio XIII is the coolest podcast! haha. :D You're very welcome, Bill!
Polymathy
What’s Legio XIII ? Btw I think you left out this Finnish Podcast, but I forgot what their name was also ....
@@mohammedjalloh7658 legio XIII is his podcast
Cheers for this! Luke (same name xd) but we need more uploads from you. Thanks ever so dearly for reigniting me to go back to learn Latin again.
If you want more videos by Luke, go to his channel "ScorpioMartianus"
You are going to get more uploads soon! :D You are also "Luke"?
Introibo ad altare dei..... I go the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass of the Roman rite every Sunday.
James Martinelli Saecula Saeculorum! I was an altar boy, choir boy and candidate for the seminary. It’s a gorgeous language with lots of soul, I agree, James.
I really love his accent and voice when he introduces I played it 600 times and sounded like him 😀😍😘💪🤘🖒👏👊👌
You got something hypnotic in your face and voice
Thank you. Autumn '23 x
New subscriber here. A new Latin learner as well. Your videos are great. Your voice is soothing.
right.. to converse with many foreigners in various languages is really a good and interesting thing
Grātiās tibi agō :) I'm so using that phrase now "Raeda in fossā est"
Love that you have a chart of nuclides on your wall.
I don't care about litterature, but I'd love to be able to read legal documents or letters written in the Middle Ages
I’m 17, over the past year and a half I’ve gotten to upper B1 Italian and I’m thinking Ima pick up Latin on the side for fun and eventually change over to almost full time Latin.
*Salve!* *Tu es bonus magister!* ❤❤❤ *Gratias*
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man thank you so much for encouraging us
Thanks so much for watching! 😃
The point about internalizing a language, “making in yours”, is really well taken. I was in a Near Eastern languages department that grew out of a classics department, and some of the non-native faculty there truly did take a “read-and-translate” approach. (No, you don’t HAVe to be fluent in modern Turkish in order to study Ottoman literature, but as an outgrowth of that language, why would you want to deprive yourself of that?) Like professors of Ancient Greek who look down their noses at Modern Greek…except that it’s only been a century since the last incarnation of Ottoman was abolished. Learning the spoken language is like bringing the color back into a black-and-white scene.
Thank you very much for such an informative and inspiring video! (Hopefully next time I will write to you in Latin)
Thanks so much for writing this nice comment and subscribing! 😃
There has been at least one native Latin speaker in recent times. The Russian-American musician Nicholas Slonimsky (1894-1995) spoke only Latin to his daughter Electra for the first 5 years of her life (a practice that she has described to an interviewer as a clear case of child abuse (I wish I had been so abused)). Electra is still among us, but I cannot say anything regarding her present competence in the Latin language.
the comment about latin teachers reminds me of this one time in middle school during latin class, the other latin teacher came in to ask my teacher something, and she asked him it in latin and he replied in latin - and then the spanish teacher came in and joined the conversation. pretty sure even at the time they staged it but it was still so impressive lol
The comment about Latin teachers always reminds me about that one time in Latin camp...
I like how you talk
I like how you comment 🥰
im now learning latin beacause of your videos that gave me the interest and the love for the language :)
That’s great!
The way he says “Latin” melts me. 😍
And then, his voice altogether! 🥰🥰🥰
Very persuasive fellow indeed ! Well done, inspiring and informative.
Brilliant video. Just love your channel. Very Inspiring. Also a Star Trek fan? That's so cool! Got a chart of the nuclides and the entire Solar System right there
My reasons for latin:
1) Gotta understand Aquinas in his own terms. Wheter the language his works were tranlated into is not fit for subtelties, or else, the tranlator happens not to know the subject dealt with, as it has become increasilly usual these days, not only for poetry (an old complaint), but for prose too.
2) I deem myself not classical portuguese proficient.
By the way, I think that latin is almost impossible to learn by someone that is not first interested in enriching one´s own imagination by literature - I mean, to become a proficient speaker. I´m try my best: studing the pronoun lessons by now - tons of them. The right motivation is crucial, and the right one is the one that works. "Sapo não pula por boniteza, mas por percisão" - says the peasant in my country and me along: Necessitas est mater inventionis!
Cheers.
I’ve read that if you study 2 similar languages at the same time, it causes confusion because you inadvertently use words or endings from the other. But people consistently tell me that I’d have an easier time in Latin if I learned Italian also. I would love to hear your opinion on this.
Once you’re a polyglot you don’t have much trouble distinguishing languages. If you drive a new car, you have to get used to it. And with time you can fluently drive both without interference.
@@polyMATHY_Luke Thank you -
I caught that you serve or served in the military. If I may ask, what branch? Respect from a USMC Latin student
Oorah! AF then ARNG
@@polyMATHY_Luke Semper Fidelis, amicus meus. Keep up the great work and great content. I don't think I'm alone in saying that you motivate us all to go further in Latin.
Quaestio: si in canali meo pelliculas in quibus Minecraft latine ludo facerem, hominibus placeret?
Nescio! Loquerisne ibi Latine?
@@polyMATHY_Luke certe! In Minecraft Ludo inest etiam translatio latina!
How long did it take you to learn latin? Did u learn it academically or by urself. U speak so fluently & fast like the French speak french
Thanks! I learned in 3 months with this: th-cam.com/video/j7hd799IznU/w-d-xo.html
I wonder why romance language speakers find easier to understand another romance language, then to understand Latin. For example as native Romanian who also learned French, I understand quite easily slowly spoken Italian, but I understand much less spoken/written Latin, while logically it should have been easier. Maybe the way sentences are composed makes this more difficult, or the multitude of cases ? Other reasons ?
It definitely makes sense though, since all the Romance languages are the product of a form of common Latin that evolved hundreds of years after Classical Latin literature had been standardized in the 1cBC.
you're sexiest when you speaking latín language .I only looked for you channel to be able to listen your latin voice .I'm from México , l think my comment isn't understand pretty good ,sorry , but i love your latin voice !!
Hola querida Ros, y muchísimas gracias por tus amables complementos. 🥰 Tengo otro canal que te gustará: th-cam.com/video/rNw-CS4SIJs/w-d-xo.html Abrazos
Man, you're unbearably charming! 😅
Well done with your channels! 👍🏻
3:11 That's true of every language you're trying to learn, imo... When I started learning English as a child, I was babbling and babbling, in a _very_ broken manner, making dozens of mistakes (well, I still am, but maybe not as many 😊) while trying to make myself understood. I too believe that's the only way you can improve.
I never tried to speak Latin, and I guess it's only MEA CULPA that I don't understand it now 😁
And yet I've created an artificial language in which some influences of Latin can be found nonetheless, so I guess I should study Latin a bit more... Silly me ... Oh ERRARE HUMANUM EST, I suppose.
15:40 - Joy of learning a new language. Since English is already a foreign language to me (I'm Dutch) I can confirm that being able to converse with people you'd otherwise be unable to converse with is indeed quite... how to say it... like a new world opens. :)
I learned how to speak English through music and tv shows, I believe is a great way to learn any language without taking any classes.
Are there any recommendable Latin audiobooks out there? I'm looking for something else than just an audio version of a Latin course. Gratias tibi dabo!
Person Person absolutely! I have an entire audiobooks store: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com
@@polyMATHY_Luke Thanks a lot! I'll make sure to check it out.
The way you speak English - Man there IS something about it.
A kind of musical cadence. I am very curious about it. Cannot find articles describing it on the net though.
Why is it so "seductive" as some of the other comments say.
How nice of you to say! I have an ASMR channel if you're interested: th-cam.com/users/LukeRanieriASMR
great video
Thanks! Haha nice cat sticker
I would like to smoke a blunt with this dude
😃 haha thanks
Soothing voice
Thanks! You mat like this other channel of mine th-cam.com/play/PLGUtYnRc-bNysUjT6nCcssYWxAx02n4xt.html
@@polyMATHY_Luke , thank you. Didn't know you have this.
How would you recommend starting with Latin for someone who has not studied it at school? I do however speak French, Spanish and some Italian. So hope it helps me.
With my videos! th-cam.com/video/j7hd799IznU/w-d-xo.html
polýMATHY thank you so much.
It is incredible that we have such a language that not only connects people beyond nations but even centuries like that. We can appreciate the works of the past. Future generations can appreciate the works of the past and our works today too in a single language. So we become part of this tradition, just like Issac Newton or Erasmus did (even if we are smaller) as non natives. Captain Jean-Luc Picard knows Latin too, btw :)
You are absolutely right! This is "hūmānitās," the ability to connect to peoples of all ages, the foundation of humanism. Haha, I love Captain Picard for many reasons, and that is certainly one of them! :D
Please do an episode "How to swear in Latin" Grātias!
so... i suppose based on your channel and wall posters that you want to make Latin the lingua franca of the Sistema Solar.
Haha of course!
Does anyone have a recommendation for a beginning Latin book for self study? I read reviews on Amazon, but I cannot make up my mind.
Yes! Use Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, here is a playlist of it read aloud: th-cam.com/play/PLU1WuLg45SiyrXahjvFahDuA060P487pV.html
Hell latin is still heavily used in videogames 😅 I came into Latin ironically via Japan, Final Fantasy and even late night anime like Elfen Lied had mysterious and spooky Latin lyrics and words that got me interested.
you are so dreamy. Long live the latin language and this hunk of a man.
Have a blessed
Salve, Saitama.
Bene dixisti, mi amice! Est sermo optimus. Et gratias multas tibi, quod nomen meum quoque in indice retulisti!
Gratias tibi ago, care Regule! :D Nempe nomen tuum addidi! Pro dolor hasce imagines vivas mense Maio (!) excepi, et modo heri (tandem!) in TuTubuluo imposui, ergo nomen tuum non sum fassus in ipsa pellicula.
You speak latin, Davide wants to learn Latin - we, Torinese, LOVE Latin!
Anyone else getting this Luke Smith vibe from this Luke? lol
Love it!
I see that topographic map of Mars in the back🤔
I see two enterprise-e models in the background.
🖖
There are people who speak Latin today? Mihi quoque; I want to be one of them.
Tens of thousands th-cam.com/video/3wpX9DTad9c/w-d-xo.html