Please elaborate.Learning Latin helps me in studying English, Spanish and French languages
Now I understand what you meant. I can assure you (from my own past experience) that even an elementary knowledge of Latin vocabulary is very helpful in reading French texts - I was able to understand some internet articles written in french (IMHO as far as pronunciation is considered, even advanced knowledge of Latin won’t help)I do not know French too and I do not want to speak ,but I learn for reading(- and only). However lexicon of Romance languages and English is very similar
+ frail, fragileYou get to laugh at distinctions like imply/employ/implicate
This. Evidence.Studying Latin improves your vocabulary: 60% of all English words derive from Latin either directly or indirectly. Studying Latin also makes learning most other Indo-European languages easier, especially the Romance languages.
This is true. Has anyone else experienced this -- when in a room with a person or people who know that you have learned Latin, they are hesitant to use any Latin...or, if they do, they sort of consult you in a nervous or joking way? People know that they cannot fool you, or get any unearned intellectual credibility. It is almost as if it makes some people slightly uncomfortable or insecure.I get to be insufferably smug.
I prefer it when someone who doesn't know I speak Latin says something and is like, "That's Latin for blahblahblah." And then they have this lovely look of surprise upon being called out and served.This is true. Has anyone else experienced this -- when in a room with a person or people who know that you have learned Latin, they are hesitant to use any Latin...or, if they do, they sort of consult you in a nervous or joking way? People know that they cannot fool you, or get any unearned intellectual credibility. It is almost as if it makes some people slightly uncomfortable or insecure.
Matthaeum animus fert in latinum convertere:Immersing yourself in the wealth of ancient Roman literature, our cultural forebears.
I prefer it when someone who doesn't know I speak Latin says something and is like, "That's Latin for blahblahblah." And then they have this lovely look of surprise upon being called out and served.
I wonder if ‘It’s I’ sounds pompous to a native.It helps you know when to say "you and me" and when to say "you and I". That's a trivial example to make a point: studying Latin makes you much more aware of what's really going on in a sentence.