<p>Dear CCers, </p>
<p>Are any of you fluent in Latin? Has this made it ridiculously eas[ier] to learn other Romance languages? I'm starting it in Fall and I'm looking forward to it. </p>
<p>Another question: After studying your first Romance language, where did you attack next? </p>
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<li>Emmeline</li>
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<p>Yes!!!!! :)</p>
<p>I'm currently in my second year of Latin and loving it. Yes it does make it easier. My native tongue is Spanish but I speak English better than anything else. Then I learned Latin and now am taking German. It helps ALOT. Even with non-romantic language such as Deutsch. The influence the empire had was gigantic and you will find that all the romance languages are practically dialects of Latin. The lingua latina actually improved my spanish/english/sat skills hundredfold. :)</p>
<p>I first studied Spanish, studied abroad in Spain, and became pretty fluent. Then, I moved on to French and it has been sooooooooooo easy now that I have another romance language under my belt. Lots of the words are the same (except pronunciation) and verb conjugations are pretty much the same too.</p>
<p>First of all, I studied Spanish, and now I’m studying French. It’s pretty easy.</p>
<p>Second, please don’t study Latin with the goal of learning another language. If you want to learn a modern language, just learn it. I’m really biased against Latin, but I really don’t see how it’s a good idea to study one language just because you want to study a different one later. You’ll just be setting yourself up to lose interest in Latin.</p>
<p>lol fluent in Latin.</p>
<p>Latin helps with English, like a ridiculous amount. I don’t know about Romance languages, but it doesn’t hurt. I imagine it would help with vocabulary, but it’s a bad idea just to study it so some other language will be easier. Self-studying is ridiculously overplayed, it’s especially unrealistic if you’re trying to learn a completely new language when you’re in you’re in your first year of Latin.. Don’t overestimate what you’re going to do in your first year, you will most likely (like, definitely) not learn enough to swim through French or Spanish. You’ll learn more about English than applying that knowledge to something else.</p>
<p>4 years of a dead language, yay me</p>