Language – Latin

6 Responses to “How do you say, “I don’t speak Latin” in Latin.?”

1. aida Says:
   October 30th, 2009 at 6:21 pm

   Latine non loquor OR Latina lingua non utor. (The final a’s of "Latina" and "lingua" are long–they’re ablatives.)

   Although both "dicere" and "loqui" mean "to speak" (or tell or say) an dboth can take direct objects, neither one seems to be used with the name of a language as its direct object. So the first sentence here means literally, "I don’t speak IN Latin,’ and the second means "I don’t use the Latin language," ("Utor" takes an ablative object.)

2. hapkidochuck Says:
   October 30th, 2009 at 6:21 pm

   If you say " I don’t speak Latin " in the Latin language, …. Aren’t " you " speaking Latin????

3. gσиzαℓσ☆♥м∂ρ тв ♥☆arkinterprete! Says:
   October 30th, 2009 at 6:21 pm

   "latinum non dico"

   i’m italian, i study latin at school….

   yeah, it’s better "latine non loquor"…

4. - Francesca. Says:
   October 30th, 2009 at 6:21 pm

   EGO operor non narro latin. I think that is around about right. I havent done latin in years.

5. metrodorus Says:
   October 30th, 2009 at 6:21 pm

   Firstly,if that is true, then you should correct this defect! Head over to the Latinum podcast http://latinum.mypodcast.com

   This is a huge free online course to teach spoken Latin, and it begins from the very basics, and works its way up to a very high level, in slow increments.

   You’d say , for I don’t speak Latin, something like this:
   Non loquor latine (I don’t speak Latin)
   or Scientiam linguam latinam non habeo. (I don’t know any Latin)
   or Non peritus sum linguae latinae. (I’m not very good at Latin)

6. sayonara Says:
   October 30th, 2009 at 6:21 pm

   Linguam latinam non scio.

   = I do not know Latin.