Archive for October, 2010

How do you greet the Pope in the latin language?

I have been granted a private audience with the Pope in a few days, and I would like to graciously greet him in latin. Help???

English is the international language and does the English-speaking people really can pronounce them correctly?
Thanks in Advance.

Since when did the Latin language become a race?

How can people who don't speak Latin claim to have the Roman Empire's language (Latin) in their blood?
If it's about the Spanish race, then why not just say European or Spaniard?

I get the impression people tend to learn Latin first, then Greek. But Greek culture came first. What do you think is the wisest to begin with, assuming interest-level is equal?

I'm not looking for an inaccurate, old style globe, but a completely modern globe with all the place names either in Latin, or Latinized.
Max K: Well, you'd add the names of new countries in the same way that you Latinize any name: you assign the name to the most convenient declension, and put it in the nominative case.

Ok, I'm in high school now, and some of my classmates are taking Latin. Some have As and Bs and claim it's easy. Others have Ds and Fs and claim the language was so hard it died. I am taking Spanish, so I have no clue,, but is it really as complex as they say, or are they just having trouble learning?

I know all languages can be hard, but is Latin more complex then english?