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CheeseNBacon2 t1_iuhkwrf wrote
I'd imagine the romance languages would have an even easier time.
luxtabula t1_iuhkxlw wrote
Big no on this one. Most of the loanwords are used for academic or industrial reasons, not for common conversation. They also have equivalent English words that get the point across better. English still is a Germanic language in every aspect and Latin is a huge curve.
LOL_Murica t1_iuhlrto wrote
Other way around. I took one year of Latin in high school and it made learning French, Spanish and German a thousand times easier.
ComplexMoth t1_iuhly0e wrote
As a native Spanish speaker, absolutely not. It's apalling how most English speaking people find words with a latin root weird, difficult to pronounce and just magically difficult to understand and write. Go figure
EvenSpoonier t1_iuho9lv wrote
Ecce! In pictura est puella, nomine Cornelia. Cornelia est puella Romana quae in Italia habitat...
Banana-Louigi t1_iuht5ry wrote
Holder of a degree in linguistics and speaker (ranging from intermediate to very poor) of two romantic and two Germanic languages and I 100% concur.
Latin is a dead language, dead as dead could be. It's killed off all the Romans and now it's killing me!
luxtabula t1_iuhtiot wrote
Because English is not a Latin based language and most of the words and the way they're conjugated simply don't match up with standard English. I see the same thing with Spanish, French, and Portuguese speakers struggling with some Germanic words on first try.
bayo_sandwich t1_iuirm8s wrote
>Most of the loanwords are used for academic or industrial reasons, not for common conversation.
Even then, the loanword usually means something very different than the original Latin. Ambitio, for example. Or religio
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