Lovely Latin
What us is Latin? I was disappointed at being in a Lati class at my girls' grammar school. I wanted to learn Spanish, a living language. However Latin has proved useful. In addiion to reading Roman inscriptions in museums ad Roman ruins around the world. Latin is the basis of te romance languages. Romance, from Rome.
Latin is a simple language. Like Italian. Amo, amas, amat. I love, you love, he, she or it loves. You don't need to add the Italian for I, just add the letter o on the end of the verb.
I learned Latin at school. Ager means field and hortus means garden. So agriculture is to do with farmers and farming and fields, whislt hortidculture is to do with gardening. What use are the romance languages.
Plant names are mostly Latin. When I discovered that prunus meant plum,
How long will it take you?
Let's suppose you are going on holiday to Italy next year, and want to devote an hour a day to learning Italian. An hour a day for 365 days brings you to the elementary level. What is you need five years to become fluent! that's discouraging.
However, look at it another way. Fistly, it took you five years before you started school and could talke basic English or your first language.
Look at it yet another way. Do you plan to live to 70 or more years old. If you are under fifty years old, you could devote five years to each of three languages. By the time you retire, you can tell everyone you know, including your grandchildren, that you speak four languages.\\
The Italian Flag
Italian
The Italian flag is known as the tricolore, meaning three colours. In a restaurant (ristorante) your starter might consist of red tomatoes, white feta cheese and an item of grren salad (insalta) .
Useful Websites
I have several posts on learning the Italian language.
Duolingo
wikivoyage phrasebook Italian
Google translate
https://languatalk.com/blog/italian/how-long-does-it-take-to-learn-italian-fluently/
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