I have a qualification in Latin. I think it's a lot easier to learn than Greek because it's similar to English.
You need to have a really good teacher though, or it'll be boring.
Then transliterate me how do you pronounce blank slate Tabula rasa. I'm not trying to offend you, just trying to make my point you all learn it wrong and most of you would spell it wrong if you took Serbian language classes and I surprise you with a test. And you laugh to others.
I'm just learning Latin. I'm assuming Tah-boo-luh rah-suh if I'm doing it phonetically ( if that's what you're asking )
But you haven't even seen how much Latin sincere_milkshake is learning if they haven't said a thing in it.
Also, no ones talking about Serbian we're talking about Latin. Of course no one could pass a test on a subject they knew nothing about. I had trouble remember that V wasn't pronounced like it is in English, but that's why you take classes to learn something.
Also, you are trying to offend. They were talking about Latin, said nothing in the language, and you bust in assuming they don't know what they're talking about when you don't even know them.
And who's laughing at others ? What do you mean by that ?
It's from a different post. Racist "flied lice" post, people laughing at Japanese students ,from Japan who misspelled something on the surprise spelling test. I explained to racist that Japanese students(from Japan) go about, every day, for the whole day, for the past 15 years seeing, for example "da-ri-fu-to" (the loan word, they don't have 16th century word for drift) word spelled exactly like that, in Latin script, da-ri-fu-to, cause they can't pronounce d without a that accompanies it, it's physically impossible,written exactly like that on the buses, markets, buildings... And they heard drift on a spelling test and wrote it dArift, OMG unforgivable mistake.
That's why I brought up Serbian (my native) . We have for example English word we took through French, or German (we "learned" foreign languages through German people, as in loan words) , for example, idk I can't remember any example, let's say jacket, we call it like French (zhaket), but we don't write words in their original form, we don't write even (as Japanese don't) original names- Jackson, they write it JakUson, sooo we write žaket. So if you spelled it žakit or DŽaket or žacket cause you don't understand use of the French "j" and why is it different from English "j" and what's the difference between surnames žuljić and džulič and julic, nobody will laugh at you if you misspell renowned Radič as Radić
@diyrogue, you fruitcake, you asked questions. And I was taught good manners, to answer. My god, you should really go test yourself, for adhd or something. These are pretty simple sentences. You could fall from Mars and understand them. The point is you suck at foreign languages. Everybody in the world knows it, they don't laugh at you, they're not so full of themselves like you, but they think you're incapable of learning languages, sort of speech impediment. You can't say Buon giorno and stop at "O"in the end, you must anglicize it to giornoU. You sound like... Well... Like "flied lice". Who are you to laugh at people. You, with year of learning Latin transliterated it WRONG. It's tah -boo -lAh rah -Zah. You... don't... speak... Latin... good.
Why are you so angry. I stated a fact. You don't speak Latin well. I sometimes substitute a Latin professor in my high school, cause i learned it on my Philosophy college. I as a substitute teacher tell my kids they suck ass in Latin pronunciation. I'm saying this as a professional. And you attacked me various times basically calling me "a spigot". Various times. But I don't get mad. I respond "I don't care, English is my 4th language". But I'm fed up with you when you "don't clean up in your backyard first before criticizing your neighbors' " You sound ridiculous "speaking" Latin. And you brag with that, while criticizing others.
First off, I do have ADD, but my disorders aren't any of your business. Second, yes I asked questions. I know that. I just did not understand your response. Third, I didn't say anything rude to or about you. All I said was I didn't understand what you were saying.
Now, I've only been learning Latin a few months so forgive me if I don't pass your unecessary test. Even then you have no room to talk. You don't speak English very well which is one of the reasons I didn't understand what you were talking about, but who's making fun of you for it ? Certainly not me. Also, fruitcake, you need to understand people don't understand everything. The Japanese have trouble with L, not everyone has letters like ö and so they don't know how to pronounce them. You're pretty fucking full of yourself if you think that you're so much better at speaking a language than anyone in an entire country. Even then, it's a fucking DEAD language. There's no reason to get pissy over it.
Also, I'm not sure how things work where you are, but most of the time in America if you told the kids they sucked ass you'd be fired, especially if you were just subbing and didn't have a full job there. And it actually helps reflect on your teaching, because rather than TEACHING them like you're supposed to be doing, you insult them and make them bitter towards you, not actually helping them get better at Latin.
Also, for saying you don't care about smbadat calling you a " spigot " it sounds like you bring it up a bit. Even then that's in the past, it has nothing to do with this. You're just being ugly because you're the actual one who's full of yourself. You keep going on and on about people laughing at others for not being able to speak a language properly, but EVERYONE does it. Americans aren't the sole assholes in that department. The Danish even have phrases they use to make fun of people who can't pronounce certain sounds because they aren't native speakers.
My insults weren't addressed to the whole nations, even though I do think the entire nations of yours can not speak Latin, or as a matter of fact French, it's not a big deal. I could learn English for decades, my "th" will never be as perfect as yours, it's not about learning, it's about f*cking physical inability, that's what you laugh at, and that my "friend" is racist!
French people don't laugh at Spaniards. Cause they speak almost perfect French, not because they're similar, Serbs also speak perfect French, it's because we grew up with Muslims who "swallow when they need to swallow"(the silent H, that is). They laugh to Serb-Americans that go to their country and pronounce their writer Viktor Hyugou(Hugo). It's not a nation thing. It's not a speech impediment. Speech impediment is when you can't get U from Hugo right, like, never. Nobody hates you for that. But being able to say Shah (Reza Pahlavi)but keep saying J. Sebastian Back is not physical impediment, it's "I don't give a fcuk, I'll say it the way I want it" is you not respecting them, so they fire back. The whole world is calling him Bah, you don't care. And you who act so high above others and plus have physical inability mock people who just have inability.
People who, on the said post, said "I'm worst than them" earn my respect. People, arrogant people that say J. Sebastian Back(even though they wrote their doctorate about him) AND Tabula Ruh-SAh(and claim they are fluent) AND laugh at "flied lice" on the other hand earn my disrespect, at least. I dismiss students for that. And believe it or not they love me. They're not snowflakes. I don't stop them telling me even "Fuck you, you're wrong" when I'm wrong (btw it's not allowed here, students still stay in "atten-hut" when other professors enter)
You need to have a really good teacher though, or it'll be boring.
They messed things up when they added July for Julius Caesar
And August for Augustus
It proves that I do
But you haven't even seen how much Latin sincere_milkshake is learning if they haven't said a thing in it.
Also, no ones talking about Serbian we're talking about Latin. Of course no one could pass a test on a subject they knew nothing about. I had trouble remember that V wasn't pronounced like it is in English, but that's why you take classes to learn something.
Also, you are trying to offend. They were talking about Latin, said nothing in the language, and you bust in assuming they don't know what they're talking about when you don't even know them.
And who's laughing at others ? What do you mean by that ?
@Zeus can we please do something about him hijacking posts like this?
I'm just sick of you doing this crap on every single post you comment on, and I'm sure others are too.
Now, I've only been learning Latin a few months so forgive me if I don't pass your unecessary test. Even then you have no room to talk. You don't speak English very well which is one of the reasons I didn't understand what you were talking about, but who's making fun of you for it ? Certainly not me. Also, fruitcake, you need to understand people don't understand everything. The Japanese have trouble with L, not everyone has letters like ö and so they don't know how to pronounce them. You're pretty fucking full of yourself if you think that you're so much better at speaking a language than anyone in an entire country. Even then, it's a fucking DEAD language. There's no reason to get pissy over it.
Tell him
Also, for saying you don't care about smbadat calling you a " spigot " it sounds like you bring it up a bit. Even then that's in the past, it has nothing to do with this. You're just being ugly because you're the actual one who's full of yourself. You keep going on and on about people laughing at others for not being able to speak a language properly, but EVERYONE does it. Americans aren't the sole assholes in that department. The Danish even have phrases they use to make fun of people who can't pronounce certain sounds because they aren't native speakers.
@Chronos
First thing I learned was a story about Thor