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You should try to speak Latin to Romanians or Sardinian speakers one time 😁👀 be interesting to see that 😎
If you try this using Attic Greek in Athens, are the languages similar enough that it becomes unchallenging? Edit: answered in the other thread. Thanks. 😊
Thanks for the compliment 😊 Italians like me love the Latin 🇮🇹
Here's a thought: What if Romania, France, Spain, Italy and Portugal all started teaching Latin in their schools and made it a second official language for their countries; then they form some sort of trade or political union something akin to the EU and Latin would be the official language of the union used for all trade and diplomacy among the nations?
@@caribbeanman3379 sarebbe fantastico/It will be fantastic!!!!
Everybody gangsta till the man starts speaking Proto-Indo-European
Gawdawmn
Can Greeks understand Proto Indo European?
@@demetriusstiakkogiannakes1326 usually not, largely due to extensive phonological changes, including deletion of *w between vowels and in onset, debuccalization of *s to /h/, fronting of *u to /y/, devoicing of *bʰ *dʰ *ɡʰ to /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ and triple reflex of labialized velars *kʷ depending on the following vowel to /p, t, k/. The grammar, however, remained fairly similar to late PIE
I'm willing to be a Lithuanian would be able to hold a short conversation.
@@demetriusstiakkogiannakes1326 No modern speaker could understand PIE. However, a few random words would come through. For example, ‘*wodr’ is one of the words for ‘water’!
It's so fun seeing the thought process on people's faces when they realize "why is this guys Italian so weird - wait what the hell is he speaking - OH okay this is Latin" -B
Hahaha. Thanks for watching, Blue!
OMG OSP STOP HIJACKING MY ENTIRE KZhead FEED
I know it’s a joke, but it's actually truer than one might expect: Italian dialects/languages can be so different and obscure (both in pronunciation/sound shift _and_ in parts of the vocabulary!) to speakers of other dialects that Italians could basically be tricked into believing that some made-up Romance sentences were from some random Italian dialect (this has been used for studies in psycholinguistics; of course here it wouldn’t happen, they recognize Latin from school). Or the other way round: an Italian colleague of mine from Taranto has told me that her father was once sent to talk to a ‘foreign’ trucker that had arrived at their company (her father was their language expert because he understands a bit of Spanish and like three words of English 😂). But it turned out that the guy was Italian, too: he was “from Noci, province of Bari” _(d’ Nauc’, provincia d’ Ber’)._ 😭😄
Wooo! Maybe a crossover in the future?
Just to add, but depending on the specific word, some words might vary very little from latin. In continental southern dialects for example, cherry usually stays something similar to "cerasa", in my own for example it's "cerase" (with the "e" making a specific sound). If I hadn't studied latin I would probably initially think that he was speaking in some dialect honestly! Great work to both of you by the way, from Italy!
I speak Portuguese and it’s amazing how you can feel the meaning of what is being said. It’s like recalling a language you never spoke.
¡Qué bueno! Hablo español y me ha pasado lo mismo.
Spanish-speaker here. I feel the same. 😊
Eu não entendi nada kkk
its ur grand grand grandparents' genes
@@amiesportsactually it would be grand x45 parents
As an old Spaniard (72), I can say we had to study a lot of Latin language when I was a boy (10), for 7 years. So I could understand almost everything at first. It was curious and touching to me to listen to it after so many years! Thank you very much!
It's the same for me, I'm a 65 year old Italian
We (in Italy) still study Latin in high school, even to this day, for 5 years. And, if you choose to go to go to certain high school (in Italian ''Liceo Classico''), you have to study also Ancient Greek. I think same happens in Spain, as you describe.
@@nicolozss You're too young to have it right away. My generation studied Latin from grade 2 to twelve 🤣
I'm just 33 and studied Latin at school in Germany. I can understand what he says but I couldn't speak it as in I couldn't find the words and grammar quickly enough to have a conversation but I completely understand what he says so we could at least converse in two languages :D
@@klamin_original The same thing happens to me with German. I studied it in high school and still remember the syntax, grammar and pronunciation. When a German speaks to me slowly I understand what he says but if I have to speak I get confused and use the English glossary which contains many more Latin terms than German. The limits of Latin are given by the fact that, apart from Catholic priests, in modern schools, there was no conversation, relegating it to the role of a dead language.
As a native English speaker, I understood almost everything; I read the subtitles.
😎
That'll do it.
Ewwww... A subtitlist!
I'm not a native English speaker but I understood 😂😂😂
L M A O
You are the kind of people we love to have in Italy, Man of culture, Smiley and easy going. Thank you for spending your time here with us!
Molto gentile
Sorry to intrude but you couldn't have said it better, really! :D
His surname is Ranieri - he is returning to the land of his forefathers!
Well said.
What does even mean ? Everyone is welcome in Italy. We don't classifie people, at least no more.
You speak Latin very clearly. Every syllable is understandable.
Probably not how Latin was actually spoken or you would not have so many Romance languages now.
@@DMG380 he is fairly acurate actually, at least thats his goal
The whole concept of inter-intelligibility between languages is fascinating,
Yeah but in this case it's like a great-grandfather being summoned just to speak with his great-grandson
I like how he is actually using a lot of direct language pedagogical techniques to help people understand what he is saying. Defining words, elaborating on the question, using gestures, but always staying in the target language. It’s very friendly and unintimidating and people seem to respond quite well to it.
I do absolutely not understand Latin or Italian (only Danish, English, German, mostly Swedish, Norwegian, and some Dutch). But his pedadogical way of gesturing and explaining, plus me drawing from the languages I do know, actually made it possible for me to understand bits of what he said.
Here in Italy we use gestures for everything we say ahahah
Would the quacking be considered pedagogical? 😁
@@Islander2112 yes.
@@giustomuh 🤌🤌
The young couple just killed it. They understood everything.
@Edd Glassus how do you know?
@@giaume12 is probably because here in italy, the most part of high school teachs latin
@@nicolodesalvo3795 Only liceo scientifico and liceo classico students have Latin in their program. All other schools don't.
@@itsmeandrea138 linguistic high schools study latin too
He also switched to Ecclesiastical pronunciation.
0:37 Upon hearing Latin he felt fear and his first reaction was to fight you.
lmao, made me LOL man!
His ancestors must have been of a tribe that hated Rome 😂😂
LMAO HAHAHAHA
I think after hearing “salve” he was going to greet him raising his hand and then stopped.
That reaction is ‘cause Salve was very used at Mussolini’s era, so that turned into another fascist symbol
As an italian that studied latin and ancient greek in highschool I find it so amazing and beautiful, thank you for this content
"Et quid est nomen canis" This is the kind of questions I want to be asked by an Italo-American speaking Latin in Rome
canis est Cerberus. (Cerberus est canis Romanus, in Pompeii habitābat, dominus ēum Lūcius Caecilius Iucundus erat). And wow that last was not conjugated properly, if I even got the right words at all! It's been a while!!)
That one was interesting to me because of how clear it was as a native english speaker
Quid canis agit?
@@deadlightdrifter3462 canis in mensam stat
@@Teverell should be ablative
I did something similar at a central train station in Germany recently. Little did I know that I was speaking to a classical philology professor. The interaction was both hilarious as well as confusing for the both of us.
I ended up speaking to a couple in Sabadell who turned out to be Latin & Ancient Greek professors, though they didn't speak much unfortunately, more of the reading/writing kind :(
@@graf Too bad they don't talk anymore fluently in ancient languages.
What language did you use? Middle High German?
Oh what a gas. 🙄
WHich train station and do you remember the professor's name?
I love the way Latin sounds when Italians speak it. The American is also speaking it more the way I would have imagined it actually sounded.
This summer I spent a half term studying in Rome. I was going to Mass in Latin almost every day and I can say that it helped me understand the sense of what people were saying in Italian a fair amount, given that I don’t speak a lick of Italian 😅
Very interesting video. I am from Rome. I would like to add some useful information for non-Italian and non-Roman viewers. Parco di Tor Tre Teste is a public park in the suburbs of Rome, close to a working class neighborhood with the same name. The most part of the people being interviewed by Luke Ranieri state that they live in the next district. In Italy, Latin is still studied at high school, but not in all the types of secondary school. It is just studied in “Liceo Classico” and “Liceo Scientifico” the hardest and most prestigious branches of high schools, attended by 35% of the students primarily coming from well-off and educated families. I am specifying it just because, given the location and the way of speaking Italian of the people (with a very strong Roman accent), it seems very likely that the majority of the park-goers never studied Latin before. Since Luke’s experiment is twice interesting.
Grazie, cercavo delle persone che appunto non avevano conoscenza del latino.
i know three heads tower. it's near broken tower
E anche al linguistico,i primi due anni
@@corinnejoness grazie per la puntualizzazione :)
@@julestof "Puntualizzazione" è una parola interessante se ci pensi
This is really awesome; if we had more content like this, more people would be willing to learn Latin, or at least learn about Latin. When the gentleman picks up on cherries and pears and understands what they mean, or the "prefer" words, it's basically a practical demonstration of non-linguists still having an innate grasp of cognates and phonetic change over time. Once my Romanian friend and I tried doing this: we'd both speak in a sort of creole, where I'd speak in a half French half Occitan-ish made up speech on the spot, and he'd do the same with French and Romanian--basically speaking non-existent Romance languages being improvised on the spot, we kept the phonetics close enough to a typical Italian sound, similar to how you'd switch to Ecclesiastical at some points so the cognates would be clearer. We managed to spend the entire day conversing with no problem
Well said! I've had Spanish speaking friends say things like "I didn't know you knew Spanish!" but I was writing things in Latin. A Norwegian friend amuses me by the way she perceives German. It breaks my heart that so many people are afraid of language learning, though, so many myths about it are out there. That you can't learn past a certain age or whatever.
this is some advanced level nerd shit and I love it.
So true. I am a Bulgarian and have spoken with a Russian and Serbian each one of us speaking our own language + mixing what little we know of each others and had no issue communicating simple things. Love your music by the way.
@@danielroy8232 It sounds that way, but everyday people do it all the time. Slavs (Polish, Ukrainians, etc.) pick up each other's languages that way real quick...
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This is fascinating! I was always curious about this. Thanks!
it's legendary when the guy immediately gets "cerasa" (cherry), which is very different from "ciliegia", because "cerasa" is also how they call cherries in lots of southern dialects
Not only southerners but even northerners. In Milan it's similar.. "sciresa"
@@ITALICVS effettivamente sì. io ho sempre "scirega" (sono milanese), ma penso che anche "sciresa" sia plausibile vista la somiglianza al francese "cerise". e anche lì la radice latina è sempre la stessa
I was taught 'a cerasa by my Sicilian mother then I learned it's ciliege in Italian.
a Roma moltissimi le chiamano ancora oggi così, cerase
Nel dialetto siciliano ci sono tante parole che possono essere di tanti origini come arabo, spagnolo, e francese. Come l'uva, in siciliano si dice rascina viene dal francese "raisin". La mela si dice pumu, pomme in francese.
As a Roman, this made me cheer and smile more than I could ever think possible. If my smile gets any bigger I am gonna lose the top of my head.
Does City of Rome have Latin course at schools?
@@ankokunokayoubi There are high schools that have Latin courses in Italy
awesome
Damn, you should see a doctor
Ah ah , tu quoque, Fabrizio ?
I think it probably also helps that you know Italian lol. Which let's you where they are at in the conversation when they respond. I can imagine dialogue is still possible, but it would just take a little longer I'd think if the person speaking Latin didn't know Italian. Thanks for the video, I love your stuff!
Sono molto felice di vederti parlare in latino e in italiano in modo così naturale 👏🏻👏🏻
I could understand that though I only know a smattering of latin or Italian. (I am an educated, native speaker of English with some ability in Spanish.) It all depends on the vocabulary required for the situation
I love how the faces of the Italian speakers lit up when they understood what you were asking ❤️
Mirabile auditu! Wonderful to hear! But I just used the second supine.
Lol Yes like some kind of genetic memory was hitting them. It is a beautiful language Latin, one they should be very proud of having given the world.
@@selmahare Eh, it's dead for a reason.
@@godofthisshityour grandma is dead for a reason
@@godofthisshit is really dead when it has a bunch of offshoots? That's like saying English is dead, because old English "died". Italian is basically modern "Latin".
I'm a Slavic person watching a video about an Italic/Romance language using a Germanic language to understand.
the majority of words in english came from french, latin and other neo latin languages, only like 1/3 is germanic
@@Tonyx.yt. English is still a Germanic language because the current percentage of the lexicon doesn't matter in language classification only the language's actual origin. English started as a Germanic Anglo-Saxon language that over time gained a lot of Romance vocabulary due to French rule.
Just shows how Italian is related enough to Latin that with a little effort people would be able to understand. Pretty amazing for a language from millennia ago.
It reminds me of what I’ve heard of between Modern Icelandic and Old Norse
This was fascinating to watch, thank you!
I understood almost everything as a Spanish speaker, in both the Latin and Italian, in my experience some words that are nothing alike between Spanish and Italian, are usually similar to the French word.
As an Iraqi, I struggle with Egyptian Arabic, which is still Arabic. Algerian Arabic? No Arab from the Middle East can understand that!
@@Moses_VII there are tons of french words in algerian arabic
"sumus" much closer to somos than siamo... for example
As someone who studied French, some key words do sound very similar to French.
@@ericcarlson3746 Exactly!
One thing is certain: My Latin students understand and learn Italian easily! Thank you for this video👍🙂
You still have latin people born 2000 years ago by you in your class? Must be amazing, ask them if they want to join me on my reconquista of Gallia
@@matt04eldorado76 All students at our high school in Germany learn Latin as their first foreign language. They only learn English as a second foreign language. As a third foreign language, they have to choose between ancient Greek and French. They can voluntarily learn Italian as their fourth foreign language.
@@ItalianByLatin your high school is very strange !
@@frexelsio6786 There are around 200 high schools of this type in Germany. We call these high schools "altsprachliches Gymnasium", which means "ancient language high school". Another term is "humanistisches Gymnasium”. 🙂
@@ItalianByLatin ah ok I did't know that. That is fine, I understand German :)
Brilliant ! Thank you for this great video.
Absolutely awesome to hear this language come alive. Thank you!
I had Latin in school for over 4 years. It‘s funny how, if he asked me, I could actually answer in Latin 😂 . I wonder what his reaction would be, if someone actually answered in Latin.
have you tried to go to sardinia? it is told that the sardinian language is the closest language existing to latin, it has even kept some of the grammar. it might be interesting the comparation between latin and sardinian
We'd love to have him!
@Riccardo Pibiri In Casteddu, podit essi. Fadiddu bandai in Nùgoro a biri chi su Sardu est morrendusì. In prus: s'Italianu regionali sardu, fintzas su nostru de Casteddu, allogat meda costrutus de su sardu e duncas de su latinu etotu e assora no diat essi sa pròpriu cosa ca in sa penisula. Fradi miu, cun totu su coru: fortzis est genti arrimada cumment'e tui chi est cuncordendi su problema in primis. Tui, dda stimas, sa lingua tua, in primu logu?
@Riccardo Pibiri non è così tragica per come la descrivi, abbiamo ancora qualche speranza di farla rinascere come lingua. Per Luke gli consiglierei di andare in qualche paesino del nuorese, li il sardo è parlato attivamente anche dai bambini.
Yes, it's true. For example, in sardinian "domu" means house and comes from the latin word "domus".
@Riccardo Pibiri Io sono straniera quindi non parlo il Sardo, ma a scuola i miei compangi parlavano in Sardo tra di loro e io non capivo niente
I have often wondered about this. Great to know. Great video!
Excellent and fascinating video, love the beauty of the Latin and the way you speak. Love the Italians, so bright, engaging and up for it.
That is so wonderful. Rome lives forever in its People. Latin is not a dead language.
well its a dead languange, but since Italian, spanish, french, rumanian and portuguese come from latin thats why we are all latinos we can understand easly between us
Neo-latin...@@sos.gamers
So good to see that actual italians can actually understand latin so well! I loved this video!
Man could go back in time and conversate with the romans if he wanted to
It's so wonderful hearing Latin properly pronounced -- much s it was spoken in the first century
And you know that how?
@@ski2mi From a formal study of classical Latin. After three years of such study at the high-school level, I was able to score 667 (from within 200-800) on the Latin College-Board achievement test (the CEEB), which was rated as particularly good
@@donsena2013 Congratulations on learning how we think Latin might have been pronounced. That wasn't my question.
Imagine Jackson Crawford going around asking Danish/Swedish/Norwegian people what their names are in Old Norse haha It might go well if he tried it in Iceland.
I’m sure it would be spectacular
Danes/Swedes/Norwegians don't like talking to strangers and many of them just leave when they can't communicate so it wouldn't be a fun video.
@@robertoprestigiacomo253 The Icelanders would just listen and talk normally with no difficulties :)
@@polyMATHY_Luke As a native swedish speaker, most of us would just look at him weird and go "Where the [expletive] did you learn swedish?!" Lol I can understand most basic sentences of old norse (weather, time of day, greetings and basic questions), but anything more complicated and it might as well be some norwegian gibberish!
people would probably think he just being a drunk Danish lol
You should definitely try this experiment in Sardinia and see the reaction of locals speaking sardo. Pretty sure it's gonna be interesting as our language, as you might know already, is considered to be the most direct evolution from ancient Latin or even viceversa, as some recent theories are saying. Great video and congratulations for what you do! =)
absolutely a Must!, I bought the big "Pittau" dictionary Italia/Sardinian language and it is much clearer where the words came from.
great idea
Consider that we also kept the hard sounds of the consonants, like Chentu ( kentu) for one hundred, or Chelu ( Kelu) for the sky. But in my nuorese dialect we also have some sentences that are almost identical to Latin, like: "Ponemi tres panes in sa bertula" that in Latin is "Pone mihi tres panes in bertula" that means "Put me three breads in the saddlebag".
I was gonna suggest this. I was first introduced to Sardinian through the song Fibai E Tessi by Randagiu Sardu 😎💪
You have such a great typical teacher voice haha this is very interesting, thank you so much. Basically, a time traveler from either worlds would not be totally lost! How reassuring ^^
A pure delight! Loved it.
I confirm. Spanish speaker here, and I had no trouble understanding the conversations while washing the dishes. Pretty amazing, though I have to say that the context helps a lot.
When I was 15, we went to Italy, with my Latin class. With Latin (and French), we were able to communicate quite well. I have to say that it was easier than our trip in Germany, although at the time we had learned German for 5 years and Latin for only 2 (but we’re french).
Funny how I say C'EST Francais ! means Let's French ! Instead of it's french to moi professuer de français.
In my opinion as someone whose mother language is slavic and second one is english I found it far easier to learn italian instead of german. I studied german for 12 years in school, I can understand it, but I absolutely can’t write it and I can barely speak it. I’ve been learning italian for a tear now and I can definetly see the difference between the two, italian is far easier to learn.
c'est français means it's french@@markoz673bajen8
That's f****** awesome ! Language is really something else in its own world and time. Nice vid !
Luke, the angles and editing in the ALI segment were *chef kiss*
The real question is did our ancient ancestors speak with their hands as much as modern Italians🤔 lol
Given how Cicero was assassinated, I would say yes.
@@polyMATHY_Luke lol
@@polyMATHY_Luke 🤣🤣🤣
I think they did, because Ancient Rome emphasized oratory skills as part of their standard education. And they did not have phones or bullhorns. They had to use hand gestures to communicate.
@@polyMATHY_Luke ...but the hands were cut off for something he had written. Did the mob believe him to be an ambidextrous writer?
Lucio, I would love to see you come down to Magna Graecia - especially the Province of Lecce - and speak to the people of the five or six communities that still speak Griko Salentino. Pax et Bonum!
I really like this video - I like to scroll the comments and see what I can understand while listening which is very little but knowing a bit of Spanish, French, and Italian as well as the pre- and suffixes we often use in English helps a lot!!
This is awesome! As Portuguese who has also lived in Italy I was very happy to understand Latin (I have never studied it)
Luke I'm so glad people like you exists, I'm Italian, and I purposely have chosen a liceo without latin when I was young, the reason being they tried to teach me in middle school but everything was an endless memorization of cases, and I've noticed that despite the hours and efforts even people that end the liceo classico don't speak Latin and Greek at all and they can't even translate from Italian to latin, they only learn written latin to Italian. I blame the obsolete method, there is no reason why people can speak English (sort of) at the end of high school but not latin even if they study it more.
i chose the liceo with latin and unfortunaly its a very obsolete method of teaching. i have a lot of issues with the latin subject and my grades are pretty low despite all the efforts i put in.
@@ricplays5905 well my tip would be to use courses like assimil or the one Luke is promoting in the video alongside the standard homeworks, it's far less boring and in the long run far more effective, if you are from liceo classico Imagine having the second test from the graduating exam and finish it in a an hour without too much headaches.
The exact same thing happens in Greece. When I finished school I could speak both English and German but I couldn't even write a sentence in ancient Greek because the teaching methods are so obsolete
assimil is great indeed. Different tools depending on starting languange to target one, yet always immersive method. Also, always funny, with jokes etc and some good insights on the culture. Anyway - and unfortunately - in italian high schools you don't need to speak in latin to get high grades, you need to translate, fullstop :-/ just keep studying the dull method, take it as a puzzle to solve, not to communicate.
@@elenacipollone3799 the thing is, once you get natural with a language translating isn't a riddle anymore, it's just... Reading.
I SO wish l had you as my Latin teacher back in my Liceo’s years!!! l’m italian and what made me hate Latin (and generally any other foreign language) was the teaching method used in Italy; the only thing that is “teached” is the grammar, nothing else matters in the italian schools, at least up to high school level. Can you imagine that? 5 years of Liceo studying english grammar and almost no conversation training, almost no native speakers’ pronounciation examples (we got it by own initiative from songs, not from the school)… and that was (l believe it’s the same today) what we got. And now aplly the same method with Latin… 🤦🏼♂
I love this video. And that many of them understand it very well!
Hoc video clarum est! Gratulor tibi de tua praeclara pronuntiatione 👍🏻
Hello from a Greek Aromanian speaker! I'm always fascinated by the similarities between Latin, this great historic language, and our little non-written, non-official, verbal language of the mountains and the countryside that came to life through it. I'd love to hear if you've ever been interested in our language, which unfortunately is rapidly dying, and if you possibly have tried to learn more about it. Keep up the great work!
My granmother is aromanian from Albania, her language was mix between latin and italian
@@testadelcomputer1839 Well Italian comes from Latin. I'd say Aromanian is a mix of Latin and Greek.
salutari din Romania!
você compreende romeno ?
I don't think aromanian is dying. Maybe you should visit the Dobrogea region in Romania. There are more than 2 million aromanians there. Also many romanians speak it, because is basically a romanian dialect,easy to understand and speak.
These videos are beyond fascinating. I appreciate how much effort you put in to make these videos such a joy to watch 🙏
It never ceases to amaze me how many similarities and mutual intelligibilities can be found, in the most unlikely of places. That's one of the *main* things that fascinates me about languages! 😃😃😃😃
Salve! Hodie canalem vestrum invenio. Gratulationes vobis ago et gratias pro hoc optime facta video 😀
This video made me so happy :) I love it when people are this enthusiastic :)
I was in Sardinia (Cagliari / South Sardinia) a few weeks ago. The people there speak sardic language which is heavily influenced by Latin. Please go and try this experiment there.
When I was in Sardinia, I was greeted with buongiorno, or however it's spelled. I don't speak italian at all, so I can't really say if they talked in Sardinian or Italian, but it sounded like Italian to me.
@@aitokoojii1462 it depends on where you've been. For example in Alghero they speak a Spanish dialect. But in Cagliari they speak for sure sardic language which you will hear all day
"salve" is actually a greeting in Italian, it means the same as it does in Latin and it's used in every region of Italy
@@Adler2935 I was in Cagliari for a day, and for almost a week in Seulo.
@@redivivo I don't remember hearing a single salve there, though.
Excelente aula! Ele é realmente um grande mestre da língua latina!
You are amazing, dude! In Italy we are happy to have interesting and intellectuals like you!
Molto gentile! Grazie.
Hi Luke! I've been following your channel for a while now and I'm always fascinated by your videos. I'm Italian and I find easier to us to understand the ecclesiastical pronunciation since it's the one used in schools and in the Catholic world (and it sounds closer to italian). I noticed that in this video you switched sometimes from classical to ecclesiastical when you wanted to help people to better guess/understand your sentences. The first time I heard you speaking I didn't even know there was a classical pronunciation and I thought you were highly educated about grammar but the "typical American guy" screwing up "our" pronunciation. I quickly realised I was so wrong and I have to thank you since you tought me someting new.
Italian is very close to Latin when it comes to its vocabulary and pronunciation. This is the fundamental reason, I think, Italians can understand the gist of Latin. Aside from the fact that Italians learn Latin in high school. Spanish speakers may have a slightly harder time understanding Latin but it just depends on the context-- i.e., if the words/phrases used in Latin are very similar to Spanish. For example, for many Spanish speakers, they would have a slightly harder time understanding the following: Salve, ut facis hodie? Americanum sum. Mihi placet pira et mala. Bibo cervisia quoque. But... They would understand the following much better: Bonus dies, quomodo vales? Quid facis hodie? Ego Americanum sum. Mihi placet pira et ceresia. Bibo cervisiam quoque. Pone in mensam et sellas. Ponlo en la mesa y sillas.
Only in scientific and classic high school
is like Ancient Greek and greek, different languages
Not all Italians study Latin in school. As Diego mentioned, Latin is only studied in specific types of high schools belonging to a category called "liceo" (there are more than 2 types of liceo) but there they only study ecclesiastic Latin and they don't study it as a language: the point in those classes is more translating pieces of Latin literature. 99% of the students struggle a lot with Latin and virtually nobody learns anything more than a few words. I never studied Latin but I could follow all the dialogues in the video because they were simple dialogues and Luke spoke fairly slowly and I'm Sicilian and that helped because some bits are uncanched in my dialect.
It is not ecclesiastic latin, if it is directed to translate classic pieces of Latin literature. And usually students learn much more than a few words. way more than a few.
@@animadverte It is ecclesiastic Latin because what they "translate" has been adapted through the centuries and sorry but no, people don't really learn much in high school unless they are really interested and make an extra effort. Those few who did learn something are exceptions (either they had very good and passionate teachers who deviated from the classical way of teaching Latin or they made an extra effort as students).
We shall revive old languages as good as we can,because they sound really badass,especially Latin and Byzantine Greek
I remember reading that after 1821, the Greek government tried to restore "more pure Ancient Greek", by inventing "katharavousa". But nobody speaks "katharavousa" today. Although I also heard some "katharavousa" words were borrowed into "demotic" Greek, so it wasn't a failure, just not a complete success either.
This brought back my high school Latin . I understood him! I also speak some Spanish, which was a huge help. I'm not surprised that Italians could figure out what he was saying. But they wouldn't have been able to figure out a complicated conversation, other than a few words.
0:05 wow, smooth camera work and smooth transition. Good job, Luke.
Che video interessante ! Sono polacco ma so parlare fluentemente l'italiano e ho anche studiato il francese e credo anch'io di essere in grado di capire il latino piu' o meno come gli italiani intervistati a Roma.
Wow, it's so fun! ❤🎉 I also understood almost all of it ! I did not always catched the meaning of all the words in the sentences but understood the general meaning of the quesrions or affirmations. I would really love to have a conversation with you. I could not reply in Italian though but in Spanish or in French. 😅
So interesting! Watched this video around the time it first came out. I found it interesting that the Italians could understand the Latin, but I couldn't understand either. Rewatching it now after learning Italian for a few months, I can understand quite a bit of both!
Well done!
Capolavoro totale! Continua così Luke - è davvero fantastico vederti in Italia e fare questi video davvero meravigliosi. Se dovessi mai organizzare un incontro da qualche parte con un pubblico, faccelo sapere!
This video… this channel… both so cool! Thanks for the great content and originality!
I’m really glad you like it!
That was very interesting to see. Bene!
This was strangely interesting and informative, thank you. Italian people come across as very pleasant and sociable.
If you can, you shoud do this experiment in Romania too, i think it will be interesting!
Some day
@@polyMATHY_Luke try in Spain, and compare Gallegos, Catalanes and Castellanos
@@jdnw85 He’s done Spain.
Once again, I felt like I'm participating in this video as a native Spanish speaker and as someone who has studied Portuguese as well. I try to avoid reading subtitles and try to understand the whole conversation through my skills on the languages that I've already mentioned. It is really interesting and the thought of finding some random person trying to communicate with me in latin seems to be a fun experience.
I just loved your video, because I speak portuguese and I could understand some things!!
I love these type of videos so much 🎉❤
Me encanta tu canal de KZhead. Soy de Costa Rica, el Español es mi lengua materna. Al leer el latín se comprende fácilmente. Por contexto se saca lo que quiere decir.
This guy is brave and has no sense of awkwardness whatever. I admire that.
More of this! This was so cool.
See more on my other channel ScorpioMartianus!
Love this vid! That guy should be a teacher, he seems to know exactly what it takes to be understood! My only Latin is O level GCE and a lot of musical texts that I've sung, so they'd understand him far better than I would.
Have you ever considered coming to Switzerland (Grisons) talking to the local Romansh-speaking people in latin? Romansh has developed from latin but due to very remote and isolated valleys back in the day, it evolved very different than Italian. It’s kind of a latin-lombard mix.
With a few German words thrown in the mix!
He could also go to Val Gherdëina up in the Dolomites, where they speak Ladin.
In line with your fruit question, "the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree". Nice to know there is still some Roman left in us Italians.
Roma Invicta!
Wow! That’s so cool! Love this!
What an excellent video ❤❤❤
You are an icon. A legend. A character.
you are such a humble guy, so great guy, so friendly, and so intelligent... i love history also, also roman and greek, my wife is southitalian, pls continue with your nice content...
Grazie
That was interesting, thank you :)
"cerasa" is used in the Neapolitan language (the local language of Napoli), for that reason we know it
It took so long for another episode luke! 😪 we have waited almost 1 year
I make videos every week. Please watch them too.
I'm Italian and understanding those people speak is so fun Also those are simple sentences that use words that are really similar to Italian so they are understandable. Really fun video tho Latin is also taught in most high schools in Italy
Great video!
This is such an awesome video.
UK here. I learnt Latin and ancient Greek up to our 'O'-level exams (~16yrs old), along with French. I only did ~10 weeks of German at ~14yrs. Obviously I have little need for Latin, but so many words in so many European languages derive from Latin and ancient Greek that it's been amazingly useful throughout my life. I also studied etymology and Indo-European as part of my Russian degree, and that's the icing on the cake when it comes to making it faster to pick up languages all across Europe. TBH I'm surprised how easily your interviewees understood Latin - I think most English speakers would struggle to understand even 15th Century English!
Try doing this in Nuoro, Sardinia. At the end of the day Sardinian is the most similar language to Latin
Amazing. Had a friend, my boss, go off to Italy one time speaking Spanish. He got along fairly well. I was a bit shocked not only that Latin would pass with Italians but that I could understand half of it (not looking) though my last Latin instruction was 65 years ago. I did live in Syracuse...(New York :-) ) and when very young live in an Italian neighborhood.