Does Latin language help to learn English?
Monday, November 16th, 2009 at
11:46 pm
How do you think?
I don't know any Latin language.
But I heard English language came from Latin.
Is Latin language useful to learn English?
I'm just curious. (:
Is it useful to learn Latin language if I want to learn English more faster?
Thank you all for the help!! XD
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Not in a direct way, there are words in English coming from Latin, but English as a language is not coming from Latin.
Learning Latin though will give you a lot of knowledge about how languages"work": grammar, syntax etc. I was told (when I had to start Latin in school at age 12) that it would teach me to "think", which at the time I thought was utter nonsense.. I already could think, in my oopinion. I now know they were right, and I am very glad I learned Latin, even if you can’t go to some foreign country (oh well, forget about the Vatican, unless you want to talk to the Pope, lol) where you can speak Latin.
Good luck!
English actually didn’t come from Latin but from Germanic roots. However, after the Norman conquest, many Norman French words came into the language and these are of Latin origin.
Unless you are at a very advanced level of English learning, a knowledge of Latin is not going to help you much.
if u want to learn english more faster , u can practice it by standing in front of mirror but according to me, u should not learn latin.it’s not the way to learn english.
your first language is very important for you, after you want to learn the second language. You have to understand and realize the article,or know the meaning from the textbook about the grammar in the second language. If you can know all the grammar from the second language from basic to higher grammar, you can know the second language. So that you just can know the second language easier than before.
I think you can learn English, you can learn more language, like Latin language or Chinese, etc.
Beside you are interested in Latin or English or other languages, you have spend a lot of time reading it, so that you can learn it more than other people.
I tell you that the important thing is that you have to know the vocabulary’s pronouciation, grammar, etc. in the second language.
According to the book, An Introduction to Language. the authors are Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman
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