Why would someone want to learn a dead language such as latin?
461544
Linguistically, it helps you learn more about another language. Historically, it helps you understand literature and other cultural factors in the society that spoke it. Pragmatically, there are professions that require basic knowledge of a dead language (e.g., law, medicine, priesthood, etc.)
1064832
Since the internet proved to be useless, then why don't try intensive courses at centres that teach languages. I know so many people who speak well different languages they learnt at thier own country.
252025
Sorry no, I study latin but I have found that the best way is through a couple of textbooks. (2 or more because if you don't understand something in one you can go to the other.) If you are going to learn latin though it is essential that you practice it a lot, translating it is not like translating other languages, their word order and complex verbs take some dedication to master.
99199
I guess because they like to be able to insult someone in a language that the insultee doesn't know.  \n\nPersonally, I just want to learn basic words.  And my name.  :]  Which is why the first thing I learned in sign language was the alphabet.  Call it narcissm.  ^^
381545
Why on earth would you want to speak another language when you can be just like all of the other typical closed-minded Americans that believe that you should only speak English?  Is it that you want to travel?  Meet other people?  Increase international business opportunities?  Whatever it is that you want to do, I'm sure it's for selfish reasons and you should listen to these provincial individuals and SPEAK ENGLISH.
1131638
accept it. You can always take an internet course in italian or listen to tapes to help, or just take classes there to learn. Think how many people would love to have that chance!
510659
probably the pope that just died, he went to the most countries out of any other pope so I would guess he knows a lot of languages
238728
Because its artificial. No one speaks it as a native tongue, so those of us who are too lazy to learn a second language (and there are a lot of us) keep our native languages in play.
91986
I learned there are about 6000 human languages.\nNot counted: dead languages.\nThe number of dialects is hard to count, because the differences are too vague.When you guess five in each language then you find 30 thousend.
876764
Several answerers with more experience than me have replied to questions like this, over and over again, that every known web site which claims to do this is useless, or worse than useless.\n\nFirstly, English has far too many words with multiple shades of meaning.  My English-to-Latin dictionary is well-filled with entries giving three or four Latin words for one English word, and explaining which English sense of the word would be appropriate for each.  For example, on just two randomly-opened pages: drink, drip, drive, droop, drown; memory, mend, mercy, mere, merry.\n\nSecondly, word order and elegance are important in good Latin.  There are established styles and idioms used by the best authors, and a web site could provide grammatically perfect and meaningful Latin sentences which just wouldn't be put that way by any classical author.  If you want to produce good Latin, you have to read lots of good Latin to get the feel of it.
572905
Try enrolling in a continuing education Latin course at a local community college or university.
132416
Some schools should look for ways to offer options, but actually- Spanish is becoming the second most important language in this country!   French is next to useless in many states.  Latin is barely useful- its helpful but has little application in the job market.  A great school might offer a remote classroom where motivated students could learn japanese, urdu, german,arabic, or russian or whatever.  Basic comprehension of spanish is important. If the student wants to study french, italian, or latin- then a background in spanish will still be useful due to some similarities in structure.
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That is something from one of those horrible online translators - someone put in English and got that garbage.  The Latin was butchered, so it is hard to say what exactly it was supposed to say, but they generally retain the original word order.  So something like "The shadow/ghost of a man is onto me".  Those online translators ought to come with a warning.  What they do to Latin is just a crime.
1163118
Latin isn't really used in conversation anymore (although I suppose it might be in use for certain correspondence within the Catholic Church) but it is still useful to learn.\n\nLatin forms the basis of so many different languages, that studying Latin is like studying language itself.  Knowledge of Latin makes understanding any of the modern Romance languages (such as Spanish, French, Italian, and English too!) much easier.  And that helps your writing and speaking, which are all-important skills in today's world.
417231
It all depends, if they are writing in a language other than their native language, I respect them for having the guts to try it anyway. If it's someone who should have the language down, I will tell them that they need to go over it and redo it!
978113
You can learn Latin at textkit.com.  They have downloadable grammars and readers, and it is all free.  They have an online forum where you can post things.  I don't believe they have a lot of activity, but you can't beat the price.  Plus the moderators there actually know Latin.
86415
I do not know how to speak latin but I will learn someday.