It is dead since no one uses it in daily life. Except if you want to become the next pope you might want to speak it fluently. Which is still hard since you would probably german-cunt the language to make it sound like yours.
>>6
A completely dead language is one where not a single soul uses it. Just because it's not used in daily life and mostly used in certain functions does not mean that it's dead.
Vivit in leguae romanesque -- Francais, Italiano, Espaniol, et Portugesa. Et pro misae catolicae. Ecoo lengua Accadiana mortis est, et lengua Punica mortis est. Latina -- nonne.
>>18
*EST in scriptum sed bonus EST.
Irrumate, hic allemani non est par usare "ist".
>>20
Francais = Franca
Italiano = Italica
Espaniol = Hispaniola
Portugesa = Lusitania.
Missa non est in latinam, sed in protoitalicam paederastae.
Trolare in lenguam latinam apprenda, asinine.
(And, :BTW, stop fucking mixing V and U - they're fucking the SAME in Latin).
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Anonymous2010-06-11 22:53
>>22
V=U in Latin
Like CUNT and CVNT would be the same
but u normally doesn't mean v
>>23
V/U in Latin can sound like English W or English OO, but never English V. Ad they're both the same phoneme in Latin, so it's not only historical innacurate to mix them, but useless.
Ignorant people only mix them because paedos from Catholic Church do.
>>25
Americana es? Femina?
Tittas expone, aut ex i
(Translation: American female? Woman? Tits or out.)
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NOTE: Latin have something called "genders":
Females are always feminine,
Males are always masculine,
Everything else can be neuter, masculine or feminine.
Adjectives agree with nouns in gender, so, using the example above...
"Americanus uir sum" (I'm an American man - note the -US)
"Americana femina sum" (I'm an American woman - note the -A)
Grossly speaking, most masculine names end in US/UM (nominative/accusative) and most feminine names end in A/AM(nom/acc).
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Anonymous2010-06-13 20:59
>>27
I know the sound like W, but V=U when used as a vowel nigger
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Anonymous2010-06-14 9:15
>>28
Not in Latin. In Latin, both are exactly the same.
Some people like to use V for majuscule and u for minuscule, other people like using only V or only U...
But mixing both is a paedopriest shit.
(And, BTW, "V" for /w/ and "U" for /u/? So why they don't write "eqvus"???)
Sic, sed /speak/ pro leguam sine Anglicium. "Foreign Language" WTF?
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Anonymous2010-06-20 21:02
Learning Latin via music is kind of a pain considering very, very, very, very few people speak it fluently or anywhere near-natively.
I find it pretty straightforwards though and find that simply translating from a primer is not that bad.
Of course, I have 6 years of Spanish experience, smatterings of French and a good enough English vocabulary that it clicks for me faster than most. Since you're starting from German as a base, it's going to be a good bit harder.
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Anonymous2010-06-20 22:36
>>45
What's a good course for Latin?
English speaker here
OP, if you go for the Classical Latin, it's pretty straightforward. No need for music as aid. One phoneme, one letter, for most cases.
And, since you're German, it's far easier to me to explain using German as example instead of soume krasi speld languaje.
BASIC ALPHABET: ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTVX
A, E, I, O, V - as German Ach, bErn, Ich, kOrn, Und. Can be long or short. In learning books the longs get a bar (macron) in it (lazy people, like me, use umlaut :D).
There IS a difference in long and short, like in mäla (appel) and mala (bad, feminine).
(NOTE: V, in that time, was the letter for /u/. The U letter is Renaissance's AFAIK.)
AE, AV, OE - as German zEIt, umlAUt, frEUd
B D G H L M N P T - as in German.
C - always as K.
F - this is open for discussion, some argue that it's pronounced with the tooth (like Volk), some argue that it's like Spanish Fuego. Do as you wish.
Q - always with V after it. Pronounce both together like K but with lips rounded like U.
R - like French baRon, or American English "boTTle". It's just a tap.
S - always like See, never like Spiel.
X - it's KS.
FROM GREEK LOANWORDS:
PH - like English Pit, with that puff of air (contrast eng. Pit and sPit). NO, IT'S NOT LIKE F IN CLASSICAL LATIN - only in Vulgar Latin onwards.
TH - like English Tip.
CH - like English Kill.
Y - like Über
Z - TS, like German, or DZ.
ABOUT DOUBLED CONSONANTS - in German and English, they tell that the vowel before is short. In Latin, they tell the CONSONANT IS LONG. Hard to explain, try to take more time to pronounce doubled consonants than single.
With that, you already can pronounce a fair decent Latin.