Language, do you speak it?

[Suu]

latin is super useful because it boosts your English vocabulary. but it is a very difficult language to learn.

I disagree. It's inflected, but it's not terribly more difficult than Spanish.

No way! I had two years of Spanish, three years of Latin, and one year of German. I'd say German was the easiest, then Spanish, then Latin.

Latin has more genders, a, SOV sentence structure that is alien to English speakers, and inflects nouns and adjectives (in addition to verbs).

Spanish has genders and inflects nouns to a degree (and so does English, for that matter).

And not to blow your mind, but the SOV sentence structure is just a suggestion, not a hard and fast rule. It gets tossed by the wayside by real Latin all the time. But once you understand the inflectional system, and get past the SVO structure hangup, it's really not hard.

There's also declination and more cases than absolutely necessary.

[Phox]

latin is super useful because it boosts your English vocabulary. but it is a very difficult language to learn.

I disagree. It's inflected, but it's not terribly more difficult than Spanish.

No way! I had two years of Spanish, three years of Latin, and one year of German. I'd say German was the easiest, then Spanish, then Latin.

Latin has more genders, a, SOV sentence structure that is alien to English speakers, and inflects nouns and adjectives (in addition to verbs).

Spanish has genders and inflects nouns to a degree (and so does English, for that matter).

And not to blow your mind, but the SOV sentence structure is just a suggestion, not a hard and fast rule. It gets tossed by the wayside by real Latin all the time. But once you understand the inflectional system, and get past the SVO structure hangup, it's really not hard.

There's also declination and more cases than absolutely necessary.

Wanan talk about too many cases? Sanskrit. 9 of them. 

[Suu]

latin is super useful because it boosts your English vocabulary. but it is a very difficult language to learn.

I disagree. It's inflected, but it's not terribly more difficult than Spanish.

No way! I had two years of Spanish, three years of Latin, and one year of German. I'd say German was the easiest, then Spanish, then Latin.

Latin has more genders, a, SOV sentence structure that is alien to English speakers, and inflects nouns and adjectives (in addition to verbs).

Spanish has genders and inflects nouns to a degree (and so does English, for that matter).

And not to blow your mind, but the SOV sentence structure is just a suggestion, not a hard and fast rule. It gets tossed by the wayside by real Latin all the time. But once you understand the inflectional system, and get past the SVO structure hangup, it's really not hard.

There's also declination and more cases than absolutely necessary.

Wanan talk about too many cases? Sanskrit. 9 of them. 

But I've never actually seen it offered at a school before.

Classical Greek is also a headache, because you have to learn a new alphabet and the way it sounds before you can really learn anything else. Much like a Cyrillic language like Russian.

[Phox]

latin is super useful because it boosts your English vocabulary. but it is a very difficult language to learn.

I disagree. It's inflected, but it's not terribly more difficult than Spanish.

No way! I had two years of Spanish, three years of Latin, and one year of German. I'd say German was the easiest, then Spanish, then Latin.

Latin has more genders, a, SOV sentence structure that is alien to English speakers, and inflects nouns and adjectives (in addition to verbs).

Spanish has genders and inflects nouns to a degree (and so does English, for that matter).

And not to blow your mind, but the SOV sentence structure is just a suggestion, not a hard and fast rule. It gets tossed by the wayside by real Latin all the time. But once you understand the inflectional system, and get past the SVO structure hangup, it's really not hard.

There's also declination and more cases than absolutely necessary.

Wanan talk about too many cases? Sanskrit. 9 of them. 

But I've never actually seen it offered at a school before.

Classical Greek is also a headache, because you have to learn a new alphabet and the way it sounds before you can really learn anything else. Much like a Cyrillic language like Russian.

That's true, but at least learning a new alphabet is easier than learning the same alphabet differently. *coughWELSHcough*

[Suu]

THE CONSONANTS.

MAKE THEM STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cramulus]

latin is super useful because it boosts your English vocabulary. but it is a very difficult language to learn.

I disagree. It's inflected, but it's not terribly more difficult than Spanish.

No way! I had two years of Spanish, three years of Latin, and one year of German. I'd say German was the easiest, then Spanish, then Latin.

Latin has more genders, a, SOV sentence structure that is alien to English speakers, and inflects nouns and adjectives (in addition to verbs).

Spanish has genders and inflects nouns to a degree (and so does English, for that matter).

And not to blow your mind, but the SOV sentence structure is just a suggestion, not a hard and fast rule. It gets tossed by the wayside by real Latin all the time. But once you understand the inflectional system, and get past the SVO structure hangup, it's really not hard.

I know you're a language maven and all, but the general consensus is that Latin is more complicated and harder to learn than Spanish.

[Phox]

I know you're a language maven and all, but the general consensus is that Latin is more complicated and harder to learn than Spanish.

Oh, I agree that it's more difficult than Spanish. I said it's not terribly more difficult though. Compare: Russian or Chinese.   

[AFK]

Finnish

E/O/T

[Cain]

Indonesian or Spanish.

Both are easy to pick up, compared to most languages.

[LMNO]

Klingon.

[AFK]

Elvish.

Thank you, a thank you very much. 

[Cain]

Elvish.

Thank you, a thank you very much. 

Quenya or Sindarin?

[LMNO]

Hey, do they still offer Ebonics as a language study?

[LMNO]

Elvish.

Thank you, a thank you very much. 

Quenya or Sindarin?

OSNAP!

[Phox]

Hey, do they still offer Ebonics as a language study?