Do you want to learn Latin?

Some people may argue that Latin is useless. In my opinion, there are two kind of languages:

  1. Dead languages, which nobody speaks natively, but there are lots of texts, resources and grammar for everybody to learn.

  2. Extinct languages, which nobody speaks natively and its resources are very scarce or non existent at all, despite being known the presence of the language at some point in history.

So, if you're eager to learn this dead but somehow resurrected and wonderful language, with lots of influences in current languages until this day, I recommend you to buy a series of books called "Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata" (LLPSI, for friends). It teaches you Latin in an increasing level of difficulty through the lessons. And there are also some excerpts from Caesar writings and other well known Latin authors.

Unfortunately, the author of those series of books died years ago, so no way to thank him for his effort.

There are also some youtubers who speak in Latin or who teach Latin, like Magister Craft, Latinitium, LatinPerDiem, Satura Lanx and ScorpioMartianus, among others.

Finally, remember these words: Roma in Italiā est.

InduperatorRex,
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Thanks for the post Ignacio! And definitely +1 to Hans Ørberg's works, there's now even an audio version available from the publisher in both the reconstructed and Italian ecclesiastical pronunciations.

And I'd definitely agree with the sentiment of clearly distinguishing Latin from other ancient languages like Egyptian or Akkadian which despite having been deciphered, are truly extinct. Classical Latin has had an unbroken chain of transmission between teacher and student for over 2000 years due to both the Catholic Church and later medieval universities. A language after all is just a means of communication, and if Latin has been out of use as a means of communication - whether verbal or written, then I don't believe we can even say Latin is dead. Notwithstanding the over billion people on Earth that speak a Romance language, and the billions more that speak languages heavily influenced by Latin and Romance languages.

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