Is the old Gealic language similar to Latin at all?
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Yes and no.  Even before the Romans occupied parts of Scotland, there was trade and people did migrate so certain terms and structures (particularly regarding commerce and trading) were influenced by Latin.\n\nDuring the Roman occupation, this influence became greater.\n\nIn general, almost all languages have evolved to take parts from others.  We use the term "Bon-appetitte" as if it were our own.  You can walk up to a stranger in Beging and ask, make typing gestures with your hand and say "PC?" and they will point you to a computer store or a library.  Amazing.\n\nWell, "Chow & adiós" !
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I wouldn't say these 2 languages are so incredibly close. The grammar in both languages is similar in the way that a sentence is formed. The verbs, tenses, and their conjugation is different. In short there are more differences than there are similarities.\nTheir similarities come from the fact that they both evolved from the same language.
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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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English is what's called a "borrowed language".  That's why you see so many similarities between it and other languages.  From my understanding, our alphabet is based on the Roman alphabet, and our number system is based on the Arabic system.
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What year are you taking?  You might try playing Scrabble using only Latin words, depending on the size of your vocabulary.  Or you could play something like Catchphrase, using a timer and substituting Latin words for English.  Unfortunately, there's not a lot out there tailored specifically to Latin.  Maybe a game like Boggle, making only Latin words.  Are you only interested in the language, or the culture as well?  Maybe you could do something using the gods and godesses, historical figures, inventions, the political system, or architectural structures.  The Romans were very advanced for their time; there are lots of possibilities.
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The two languages are closely related, but that doesn't mean that they are very similar. I wonder if you are just looking for an easy language to learn (for whatever strange reason) you would do better to choose a Latin language like Italian and Spanish (fairly easy) or French (a bit more difficult). Or German, which is more difficult still, but related to English. the problem with Dutch, if you want to use it to speak to people in the Netherlands, is that so many people there speak fluent English that you will have to study if for an incredibly long time before you speak it better than they speak your language. Not a very rewarding situation.
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They are relics from the language the word was adapted from.  English has traces of latin, Greek, French, German, Saxon, and Old Norse, and words with similar silent letters were from the same mother tongues.  Hence, walk, talk, and stalk are related; reign, malign, sign, and feign are related; and knob, knock, knoll, and knee are related.  The distinctions aren't entirely clear, because there's a lot of interbreeding among languages, and the people who codified english spelling weren't exactly linguistic scientists.
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We'll you'll find it all in Wikipedia.\n\n«Although surviving Latin literature consists almost entirely of Classical Latin, an artificial and highly stylized and polished literary language from the 1st century BC, the actual spoken language of the Roman Empire was Vulgar Latin, which significantly differed from Classical Latin in grammar, vocabulary, and eventually pronunciation. Also, although Latin remained the main written language of the Roman Empire, Greek came to be the language spoken by the well-educated elite, as most of the literature studied by Romans was written in Greek. In the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which became the Byzantine Empire, Greek eventually supplanted Latin as both the written and spoken language.»
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http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Latin/
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Vulgar Latin is just your everyday, common, or slang usage.  While the term is primarily applied to the Latin that was spoken in the Middle Ages, it has been around since the beginning of the empire - the playwright Plautus (about 280 BC) is considered to have written in vulgar Latin.  It similar to the difference between saying "equestrian" and "rider".  By the time the Middle Ages came around, the slang usages had replaced the regular ones (caballus in place of equus, bellus instead of pulcher).  Which is why the Romance languages have variants of these later Latin words, as opposed to the classical ones.\n\nThe pronunciation did change; during the classical period, the c was hard like a k, but it softened to a ch or s sound a few centuries later.  As with the ae and oe ligatures - the a and o portions were dropped as the pronunciation changed.  Which is why you once in a great while will see a words like encyclopedia and medieval written as encyclopaedia and mediaeval, which are closer to the original classical spelling.
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Well one was written in english, the other in latin. That's kind of a difference.
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Language: Old English\nOrigin: belg 'bag, skin'
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You may find your answer on this page:\n\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=sbc-web&tab=&p=Old+English+font&btn=Search\n\nGood Luck
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there are many styles, gojoru, karate-do, Isshinryu, and many others. However, they all are taken from the same ancient style. much like how all the different romance languages (Italian, Spanish, French, etc.) all came from Latin
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i had a look on a translator and it said it was the same in english!! confusing
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German is very similar to English in many respects (mostly in the sounds), but has a lot of different grammatical rules. \nSpanish shares many of the same grammatical rules (other than the adjective behind the noun and things like that that are fairly simple to learn), and some of the words are similar to english words. \n\nIf you're looking to learn a different language and you only know English already, I would suggest Spanish, the grammatical abnormalities (like the multiple articles in different tenses) are hard to catch on to. But there are no real languages as similar to English as Spanish is to Portuguese, etc. But once you learn a language like Spanish or German, it would open up the door to you to many other dialects/languages if you're interested.
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No French is decended from Latin and English is not.\n\nThe "English" alphabet is actually derived from the Roman (Latin)alphabet.  French also uses the Roman alphabet.\nThe French language is decended from a dialect of Latin, but English is not.\nEnglish is decended from a germanic language, not german but a language distantly related to german.