Why should i learn latin?
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First, it is the basis of quite a few modern languages, and the structure especially will help you with English and most languages that use the same character set.  Secondly, Latin is the basis of most scientific terms: the names of plants and animals, practically all medical terms, etc.  Also, it is very significant in law, and will go a long way to help you understand legal terms.  Finally, it is really very interesting to read classical Latin literature.  Ovid is amazing!
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It depends on what your native language is.  If you speak english, the easiest languages to learn are going to be french, spanish or italian.  That's because all of these languages derived from latin so they have form, structure, and even many words in common (or notably similar).  However, if your native language was vietnamese it would probably be easier for you to learn chinese than italian.
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"learn" from Latin "discere"
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I am learning Italian and I think that it's not so hard. If you know spanish (which is mixed in with italian) And if you have a person to practice with so that you both can help eachother. That makes it easier. As for it being just out right easy or hard I would say that it depends on how much effort you put into really learning. Anyone can learn a new language though, You are worth as many people as languages you know.
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A common, universal, language is necessary.\n\nEducators, regardless of tenure or degrees, are useless hulks of meat if they cannot communicate with their students.\n\nAt one time, it was necessary to learn Latin in order to understand science, because it was the only universal language throughout Western European Civilization. It was a pain in the butt, but it worked. And there were no complaints about it being cultural chauvinism, in spite of it being a dead language.\n\nDiversity is cool, but it ignores the fact that a universal language is more efficient. Does any teacher want to learn 5,486 languages and cultures in order to teach a class?\n\nIf I had to teach my children a second language to enhance their ability to survive and prosper in the modern world, it would be English. Once they knew that, the doors would be open to understanding a wealth of information about science, math, finance and culture.
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Biology or Chemistry or a devoted pre-med program as offered by some schools.  Pre-med isn't so much a major as a set of courses recommended by the AMA - it includes general Chemistry, Physics, and Biology, Organic Chemistry, Calculus and higher level electives in chemistry and/or biology, as well as courses in literature and writing.\n\nYou might also consider taking a course in Latin - any number of med students say that it either did help them or that they wish they had taken one.  It's not essential, but given the amount of Latin used in medical terminology, at least being familiar with the language will make studying and your recognition of terms easier.  Some universities offer Latin for Pre-meds or something similar - I think that it's less about grammar and more about vocabulary.
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If it's for school, forget it.  There is no such thing as a free Latin/Greek translator.  There are too many things in Latin and Greek where you have to know things like the sex of the subject, how many there are, stuff like that that usually just doesn't matter in English.  If it's just words you're trying to translate, then I suggest just dictionary.com  It'll show you what Latin or Greek word something comes from (though remember, most of English is actually derived from German).
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I think when you want to learn a foreign language, you need to learn the basics with a private teacher who will have all the focus on you and then you should go to, you know, public classes so you will be able to communicate with others. The best thing is to be in a place (specially a city or country) where people speak that language. \nAnyways, if you don't want classes I recommend this CD that will work beautifully." Learn To Speak French" is the name. They have this CD for other languages too; such as English, Spanish , etc. It's really great. You can even take online courses and besides it's really beneficial since you can have conversations with characters in the program. Your reading, writing, speaking and listening will improve all together. \nGood luck! :)
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It depends how much time you are willing to spend on one language. Language is a tool for communication. It will help you to understand a culture or others from a language. You could start it from watching french movies or listen french songs to gain your interesting. Once you enjoy the language that brings you exploring new experience , the learning process will not be hard at all.
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Why do you want to learn Spanish?
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my favorite subject has always been math, but honestly, when are we ever going to use calculus? i think english is pretty important. you can always improve on your vocabulary. writing and reading is good for your brain.
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Latin for the reasons stated by others - medical terminology is steeped in Latin.\n\nAfter that, I guess it really depends on where you plan to work when you get out of medical school.  If you plan to work in South Florida where there is a heavy Latino population, I don't know that fluency in Italian serves you really well.  Of course, if you plan to practice in Paris, I don't know that a heavy Spanish background does you a lot of good.
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What are your professional goals? Do you want to teach Italian? Join the foreign service? Those are excellent reasons, however studying abroad will also expose you to other cultures, other languages, and will allow you to know who you are, develop your strengths and see things from a completely different perspective. It will open your mind to new possibilities. Even if you don't end up majoring in Italian and languages, I think you should definitely go for it. Besides, since it's an American university (accredited, I hope), you can always transfer back to the US after a couple of years.\nhttp://www.macquil.com
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Nothing is "Easy" in latin.  I would say its one of the hardest languages to learn!  But as the lady above says "Facilis" is the translation of the word "Easy".
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Let your latin studies begin here http://www.textkit.com , you will be among friends.\n\nCome and join us!!!
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That is not all Latin, just some medical therminology. It is not difficult, and it becomes more obvious when you study anatomy. Main things, I think:\n\n- to have a medical Latin-English dictionary;\n\n- to look what words mean and to learn basic words, like latus, minimus, dorsus, etc.;\n\n- to learn not only a nominative of a new noun, but also GENITIVE, because exactly genitive is used for construction of other words (os may mean a bone and a mouth, but no problem if you learn os, ossis for bone and os, oris for mouth); genitive is needed saying that smth is of smth, like musculus levator scapulae - lifting muscle OF SCAPULA; \n\n- to understand that a part of terminology comes from ancient Greek (guiunaykos meant a woman, so gynecology..); they have some special letters or their combinations sometimes, which are not characteristic for Latin words - easier to remark irregular things. E.g. true Latin words do not have a letter "Y". \n\n- learn division of nouns to declensions (5) by genus and their terminations. It is needed when you combine a noun, especially a new one, with an adverb and add a coresponding genus end for adjective (2 declensions); (dermatitis traumaticA, but not traumaticUS)\n\n- most of prefixes exist in English words or are easy to associate, some basic are listed in the site http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa052698.htm\n\n- suffixes used in adjectives of medical Latin are limited too, besides many entered English language: http://www.class.uidaho.edu/luschnig/EWO/4.htm\n\n- also understand from which verbs are some words formed when it is a case (lev-ator)\n\nI liked an example presented in http://www.classics.und.ac.za/Worksheet5.htm and did not like pages at http://www.medicalassistant.net/glwordlist.htm, muscle adducting humerus, because they are more useful for a swot than learning, however they may be used for finding something fast. Medical terms presented not in true Latin, but in some English modification of it. \n\nYour examples:\nmusculus latissimus dorsi, usually written as m. latissimus orsi: latus (wide)->latissimus (widest), dorsus,-i (back)\n"a widest muscle of the back" (muscle adducting humerus)\n\nm. levator scapulae: "lifter"" muscle of scapula (scapula,-ae)\n\nm. pectoralis: pectus,-oris (breast), pectoralis - adjective meaning "öf breast", pectoral; breast muscle\n\nrhomboid: -oid means "like", "having a shape"of\n\nserratus: serra,-ae means a saw (instrument with "teeth")\n\nm. orbicularis oculi: orbiculus, -i (a little circle or disc) is diminutive from orbis, -i (a circle or disc); oculus, -i (eye); circular muscle of the eye\n\nm. oris - os, oris - mouth; muscle of mouth.\n\nGood luck!
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Sorry no, I study latin but I have found that the best way is through a couple of textbooks. (2 or more because if you don't understand something in one you can go to the other.) If you are going to learn latin though it is essential that you practice it a lot, translating it is not like translating other languages, their word order and complex verbs take some dedication to master.