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I heard that since all languages are derived from latin that once you have mastered latin you can master any language. Is this true?
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LATIN The Language of Magic by Carl Nagel FINBAR Book No 92 US $4.74 --> Ends in : 1h 18m <-- |
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The Blackwell History of the Latin Language NEW US $138.74 --> Ends in : 1h 58m <-- |
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Latin Prose Composition Latin Language MA North AE Hillard US $32.74 --> Ends in : 3h 28m <-- |
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If you learn Latin you will have an easier time learning the Romance Languages which are derived from Latin. French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian. You will also have a foot up on English which is about 50% Latin based. But as far as any other language, the vast majority are not latin based and knowing Latin is not going to help you at all.
Chinese,
Japanese,
Korean,
German
Swedish
Norwegian
Russian,
Greek
Arabic
Hebrew,
Native American Languages
African Languages
Polynesian languages.
etc.
And the most non-related language of them all, Basque.
No, not all languages are derived from Latin. Only some languages, like the Romance languages, like Romanian, Italian, French, or like English, which has vocabulary from Latin.
It is true that learning Latin first will help you learn other languages that derive from Latin (such as a lot of the European languages). However, there are tons of languages that do NOT come from Latin (Asian languages, African languages, etc.) so knowing Latin would be absolutely no help to you in trying to learn one of those.
Not all languages are derived from Latin. Knowing Latin will help you understand grammatical structures in romance languages (like Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese and a few others) and other languages that have similar grammar, like German and even English or Greek, and will lay a vocabulary base. This will make it easier to learn these languages, but will probably not help much to learn Chinese and Japanese which as far as I know work very differently.
My native language is German, my first foreign language was Latin, and I have since learned five other languages: English Italian, Classical Greek, French and Spanish, and Latin has helped me with all of these.
If you learn Latin, you will have an easier time learning those languages that are descended from Latin, such as the modern Romance languages or Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, and other offshoots such as Catalan.
Romanian will also be easy, but the vocabulary has been influenced by the Slavic languages that surround Romania. The thing about Latin is that it preserved many of the cases and case endings, which make it a difficult language compared to English or modern Romance Languages.
When it comes to other languages not in the Indo-European family, such as Hungarian, Japanese, Chinese, and New World languages, your only advantage will be in the training of your mind to think outside the box of your native language that learning Latin will provide, and the discipline that you have practised in order to acquire it. However you will have to learn an entirely unfamiliar vocabulary and grammar to understand many of these other languages outside or the Romance group.
Not all languages were derived from Latin, but many of the ones you will commonly see as an English speaker were either derived from that or German. English is a Germanic language that was heavily influenced by French during the Norman Conquest. Latin shares a lot of characteristics with many other languages, such as declination (Slavic languages mainly), conjugation (Spanish, French, Portuguese), construction (Spanish, French, Portuguese, Slavic languages), etc. However, it does not have much in common with Slavic languages, or even Asian languages.
Learning any language will help you learn a new language – no matter what – however, Latin has a distinct advantage, as there is a whole family of Romance languages that descended from Latin. Some of these only have a few speakers, others such as Castillian, Catalan, Sardinian, Italian, French, Romanian, have millions of speakers…..and there are even more languages in this grouping.
If you are interested in learning Latin, you can start to study it using the audio lessons, which are free, on Latinum
http://latinum.mypodcast.com
Latinum will take you to a very high level of fluency. Unlike withmost academic courses, you will learn how to pronounce the language, and also how to speak it.
Once you get some fluency, you can join the community of Latin speakers on schola http://schola.ning.com
Latin is a ’sleeping language’, but there is a revival movement, and several hundred people across the world speak the language fluently, many tens of thousands can read it reasonably well.