Re: latin
Hi Paddy.
interestingly enough, while I've never studdied latin, I did spanish at school, and am currently learning to speak Italian, in order that I can sing in it convincingly.
Both languages have a very similar scheme of altering the endings of all verbs and most nowns as you describe, although Italian uses more pronowns than Spanish, and often has some quite formal ways of saying things. For example, for most Italian verbs if you are talking about events in the past you can't just say "I went home" you would need to say "I have traveled home"
There is also similarly an imperative form of each verb which you would use in giving orders to people directly as well, for example when in the Simpsons episode set in Itally side show bob says "Manjate" for lets eat, that is actually incorrect, what he said ws "you eat" he should've said "Majete" (note I might have my italian spellings wrong sinse I� 39;m learning it primarily to converse in).
I don't actually find it that difficult, though I imagine if I hadn't been familiar with the way spanish works I wouldn't have found Italian as easy. All I need now is a decent English/Italian dictionary, preferably on the Iphone that can give me the odd words and bits of vocabulary I might need, sinse my teacher has gone through a lot of the gramma with me.
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