I've heard about William the Conqueror's invasion bringing the then-current French language to Britain, but what about the fact that the Romans occupied Britain? In other words, what percent of the Latin in English came from the occupation of Rome, and what percent came from the Norman conquest?

songs with serious or something like a sacred theme usually have their lyrics in Latin.. like those found on movies and some orchestral concerts.

so what's so special about this language that song writers often use it?

How do you say “your beautiful" in Latin - the dead language

For example, could the root Acer (sharp), be used in Latin as Acer?

Generally we wouldn't be able to know a word of the language unless it was taught to someone and they were able to translate it for all. Latin is still taught all over the place and we know it, so how is it a "dead language?"

I already know the answer to this question but, I want to know if my fellow yahoo people know it remember that the closet languages to latin are the romance languages.. spainsh, italian, french, portuguese, and romanian.

How do you say language in Latin also if you can help me how do you say notebook, video, research, city, ancient, factory, and navigate?

All of modern day English finds it's origins in either Latin or Greek. What language was the biggest influence on our language today? Latin or Greek?

Im in my freshman year of latin, im doubling up on it in my sophmore to finish it & to take french junior & senior year. But so far its soooo confusing & will it help me in the future ? Im fluent in Spanish & it helps some what to remember certian words. by the end of my highschool year i will be knowing 4 languages; English, Spanish, Latin, and, French.

I think it would be very cool to be able to speak a very dead language(wich is older than latin.) What dead language has the most resources and largest number of people who talk about it and understand it,.

I chose french for my GCSE, and we hav until monday to change or give in our slips. But since I wasnt to become a doctor, I know Latin will come in handy. But I am not sure if Universities consider Latin as a language. Can someone plz help quick!
I can only choose out of French and Latin. But thanks for the suggestions so far!

If latin is the language of ancient rome, then should we start calling Italians latinos and latinas? they are the real latin people? If not, then the romace laguages are spoken in several different countries besides south america including north Africa, france, and romania and so on... Why arn't the people from these countries considered latina or latino? I think this world is confused. Please help.

Looking through catalogued questions on answers.yahoo.com, I noticed that nearly half of the requests for "Language X to Latin" translations end up with Spanish replies.

I have a theory. My theory is that, like nationalistic Greek linguists who insist that the tonal accent never existed or that the second syllable of "alpha" began with a voiceless labiodental fricative, some rampant piece of misinformation has invaded the minds of Spanish speakers everywhere with the proposition "Spanish is Latin."

Am I correct?

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?

I wonder what digital camera would be in Latin. Is there a good translation for it?

mean France and Germany. And does this act if you read Bible in any language other than it's own language which is Latin, doesn't somehow devalue the religious value of it and is it not an insult to God?
Thanks in Advance.

I'd really like to learn Latin. The only place I know of that teaches Latin is in Rosehill Antipolo, and they have it as a part of their curriculum. I'd like to take classes, like how Alliance Francaise teaches French, but is there such a thing?

It's not. It's derived from Germanic languages.
The romance languages (Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Friulian, etc.) are derived from Latin, but not English.
English has words derived from Latin, but only because English speakers have a great habit of borrowing words from other languages.
Germanic languages are not derived from Latin, they are derived from the same languages as Latin, but they formed into two separate branches. I know Modern English (and really most modern languages) are a hodgepodge of influences. But I've noticed that people think English derived directly from the language of the Romans.

What is the adverb for "Latin" (the classical language) in Russian? I need to use it to say something like:

Я говорю по-______
Ya gavoryu pa-_____
I speak Latin(ly)

Or I read it, write it, etc.

im trying to learn latin, working with software and audio courses. But how could I get more exposure to this "dead" language? any movies with a lot of latin? any things like that?

If I learned to speak Latin, would people from countries with Romance languages be able to understand me?

For example, if I spoke to a Spanish person in Latin would he understand me? I don't necessarily mean word for word, but enough to hold some kind of pseudo conversation?

Latin, not spanish.

jw cause im a begineer at latin and i really wanna learn how to speak it even though it's a dead language, it's still the language of the Catholic Church, lol! kick ass!!!!!!!!!!

It's actually 'dream of demons while you sleep, that make you stutter when you speak.' Sorry
I've always wanted these lyrics tattooed on me somewhere in Latin, but i would never trust a tattoo artist to spell it all right with all the right grammar and things, nor am i 100 percent convinced that online translators actually work properly. Can anyone help, even if its just if you have an idea how i would go about doing it properly. ?????

How is the sentence below written in Latin?

When worthy girl met the boy who can hear God, little wise boy came to this earth.

Thank you for your help.
I want another translation too.

"God's greatest achievement"

how's the sentence above written in Latin?
Thanks for the translation but I will use this sentence in my new tattoo and want it really true. You told that it might be somehow confusing. I wanted that sentence to be like a sentence in literature masterpieces.

Weren't the Romans from Italy? And Romans spoke Latin..

How do you say language in Latin also if you can help me how do you say notebook, video, research, city, ancient, factory, and navigate?

Wouldn't it be more useful to study a language that is widely used today?If you have studied Latin let me know how it benefited you or if you felt it was a waste of time.

not a trial or anything that would involve a credit card or anything. you could just download it or something then it would be teaching you latin.

Do doctors and medical professional have to learn to speak Latin? I thought so because a lot of medical terminology and scientific names for body parts are Latin.

Thanks. =)

Ok, so I'm currently doing Biology at university and most names/terms are derived from either latin or greek. I want to learn these two languages, perhaps only to a basic level, so as i can learn the literal meanings of the many terms used.

I heard Spanish is the easiest foreign language but most English words are from Latin. Wouldn't Latin be easier? Sources?
I'm going to major in meteorology so I'll never use any of these foriegn languages.

Does anybody know tips or tricks to learn the irregular verbes in Latin, If they give you the latin infinitivus in the test
I mean if you have to learn a list with rows like this:
aperio, aperui, apertus, aperire, to open
etc.
???