Latin language

Would you like to learn a little more about Latin verb endings? Need a few tips on how to apply these endings with real Latin words? You have come to the right place! When we conjugate a verb, we always say them in the pronoun order (learned in our English grammar memory work for CycleRead More

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The Roman Empire conquered a large portion of Europe, they brought their language Latin, along with them. It was spoken throughout the empire but over the centuries, local, popular, nonstandard forms of Latin called 'Vulgar Latin' evolved into today's Romance languages. Image by KayYen There are 5 major Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian) and several minority Romance languages (such as Sardinian, Sicilian and Occitan). Romance languages are split into two…

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Why should you go to all the trouble to learn Latin? Here are 7 reasons from Maureen Wittmann.

This ed. first published 1895

The main difference between Greek and Latin is Greek is a living language while Latin is an extinct language as there are no native speakers of Latin.

Omnia iam giant quae posse negabam

I receive weekly reminders of my linguistic ignorance whenever I read anything by authors fluent in Latin.