1951 making better content than nowadays. Now I want to learn Latin...

9:02 Funnily enough that young whipper Snapper is Me, and I did grow up to be a doctor and a lawyer.I currently am retired, and am working on a detective novel set in ancient Rome.The story revolves around the murder of the Latin language and how the ghost of Latin haunts the ears of the peasants.The ghost's sweet whispers give birth to the Romance Languages.My Life has come full circle,and little did I know how prescient I was.(adj. 1620s, from Middle French prescient (15c.) and directly from Latin praescientem (nominative praesciens), present participle of praescire) So learn Latin kids,it will change your life.

My Latin teacher played this in class the other day. Glad it’s still being used!

I'm tired of people saying latin is pointless or it's impossible to be fluent. Idc! I will speak one day and I want to learn it because I can. Ancient Rome is fascinating. Latin is lovely

Nothing but deep appreciation for everyone involved in this segment. The education system is in dire need of wholesome, wise, level headed educators with no political agendas.

This is a pretty good short, but I can't help imagining that there's just a gigantic eyeball sitting in the classroom and no one wants to upset it.

Anyone who want to learn it, go read “lingua latīna per se illustrata” is literally the best book out there for it

Mother tongue languages do make it easier to learn the daughter languages, more so, than the other way around. Latin would connect the dots to the others within the family. Vocabulary building is great, but people have to learn to dissect a word first. Latin and Ancient Greek definitely helped my understanding of Medical Terminology in Nursing class. While my classmates struggled more, trying to learn Medical Terminology one word at a time, instead of understanding what words pertained to.

I love how the clip ended with "Finis".

Excellent video, Latin should be taught again. We can learn Latin by listening to some songs in the Latin language. It will be pleasing to here someone say " I can't live without the Latin language.

Most high school kids in America today can't read or write above an elementary school level, or find any place on a map, so the odds of them studying Latin are pretty much nil.

I wonder if they had any idea that within a dozen years (1963) the Catholic church would cease to conduct services in Latin? Those classes still had great use back in 1951 for people like my parents, aunts, and uncles (as well as my husband's family) for understanding church services.

My mother language is Chinese but I’m seriously considering taking Latin and Ancient Greek (have got French and German in my pocket), only to understand the roots of our modern democracy, and these knowledge can be seldom found in Chinese language, very unfortunate!

58 percent of the English language derives directly or indirectly from the Latin language. moreover, Latin is the most complex part of the English language.

This was really neat. Even back then they knew to truly understand something you have to read it on it’s original language.Plus the kids look like they enjoyed themselves and really loved learning Latin.

Excellent video...A must watch

That kid who rattled off law terms was just flexing.

It really helped me at Hogwarts, learning them spells.

Very nice! Thanks so much for uploading!

Белякова Александра 3 группа: Зачем учить латынь? • Чтобы понимать логику образования слов в современных европейских языках, так как многие из них берут своё начало из латыни; • Обучаться латыни = обучаться обучению, пониманию истории и мышления знаменитых исторических личностей

Latin's quite an awesome language! B-)

This video looks too good to have been made in 1951

OK, I will ask: Where has good-naturedness in education gone? I realize this is a staged, scripted short. Got it. But why can't education these days be serious, innocent, and fun?

I'm so glad I've been studying Latin.

Gratias ago 💙 Amō illum

Excellent short documentary. UK

This was very informative and factual.

I love the video they had made but having taken Latin, the way the words were pronounced in the video, at least in regards to the vowels, was definitely not the best, however beautiful it was to see them learning that language.

So it's an important part of western cultures. Thanks for uploading this video.

surprisingly good video this

Whatever happened to the world in 70 years? Instead of progressing , we have regressed in so many aspects of civilization.

"The law of Romans, by which civilised men live" flashback to the Legion from Fallout: New Vegas....

Well I feel like Spanish has taken over the modern school system as the main language that is taught. which is obviously a form of Latin so it’s not completely dead and it’s ARGUABLY more useful in terms of real world use as it’s one of the most spoken languages in the world, second most in US I believe. But yeah. If they had it in my school I’d love to take it.

Beautiful presentation! Such cultural enrichment!

I love the massive sea where Romania is ahahahahhahaha

A lot of scientists, linguists, archaeologists, historians etc. are considering that 8,500 years ago, Romania was the heart of the old European civilization. The new archaeological discoveries from Tartaria, (Romania), showed up written plates older than the Sumerian ones. More and more researches and studies converged to the conclusion that the Europeans are originated in a single place, the lower Danube basin. Down there, at Schela and Cladova in Romania have been discovered proves of the first European agricultural activities which appear to be even older than 10,000 years. Out of 60 scientifically works which are covering this domain, 30 of them localize the primitive origins of the man-kind in Europe, where 24 of them are localizing this origin in the actual Romania, (Carpathian- Danubian area); 10 are indicating western Siberia, 5 Jutland and/or actual Germany room, 4 for Russia, 4 for some Asian territories, 1 for actual France area and all these recognisied despite against the huge pride of those nations. Jean Carpantier, Guido Manselli, Marco Merlini, Gordon Childe, Marija Gimbutas, Yannick Rialland, M. Riehmschneider, Louis de la Valle Poussin, Olaf Hoekman, John Mandis, William Schiller, Raymond Dart, Lucian Cuesdean, Sbierea, A. Deac, George Denis, Mattie M.E., N. Densuseanu, B.P. Hajdeu, P Bosch, W. Kocka, Vladimir Gheorghiev, H. Henchen, B.V. Gornung, V Melinger, E. Michelet, A. Mozinski, W. Porzig, A. Sahmanov, Hugo Schmidt, W. Tomaschek, F.N. Tretiacov are among the huge number of specialists which consider Romania the place of otehr Europeans origines and Romanian the oldest language in Europe, older even than Sanskrit. According to the researchers and scientists, the Latin comes from the old Romanian (or Thracian) and not vice versa. The so called "slave" words are in fact pure Romanian words. The so called vulgar Latin is in fact old Romanian, or Thracian language, according to the same sources... The arguments sustaining the theories from above are very numerous and I don't want to go into them so deeply as long as the forum is and has to remain one languages dedicated, to. In the limits of the language, please allow me to present a list of just a few (out of thousands of words), which are very similar/ even identical in Romanian and Sanskrit: Romanian numerals : unu, doi, trei, patru, cinci, sase, sapte...100=suta Sanskrit numerals: unu, dvi, tri, ciatru, penci, sas, saptan...100 = satan then Romanian Sanskrit acasa acasha (at home) acu acu (now) lup lup ( wolf) a iubi (considered slave) iub (love) frate vrate (brother) camera camera (room) limba lamba (tongue) nepot napat (neffew) mandru mandra (proud) lupta lupta (fight) pandur pandur (infanterist) nevasta navasti (wife) prieten prietema (friend) pranz prans (lunch time) Ruman Ramana (Romanian) saptamana saptnahan (week) struguri strughuri (grapes) vale vale (valley) vadana vadana (widow) a zambi dzambaiami (to smile) umbra dumbra (shadow) om om (man-kind) dusman dusman (enemy) a invata invati (to study) a crapa crapaiami (to break something) naiba naiba (evil) apa apa (water) and not AQUA like in Latin. It looks like aqua came from apa and not the other way around... and so on for more than thousand situations... According to M. Gimbutas, the confusion Roman (Romanian as in original language) = Roman (ancient Rom citizen), is generated by the fact that Romans and Romanians have been the same nation, the same people. The Dacians/Thracians and Romans have been twins. The illiterate peasants called Romanians, Ruman and not Roman. Why do they call so? Because RU-MANI, RA-MANI, RO-MANI, API, APULI, DACI and MAN-DA , VAL-AH are all synonyms expressing the person from the river banc or from the river valley. APII could be found under the form of mez-APPI in the ancient Italy, under he same name as the APPULI Dacians. APU-GLIA, (or Glia Romanilor in Romanian - Romanian land) can be found with this meaning only in Romanian (Glia= land) In the Southern side of Italian "booth" exists the first neolitical site of Italy and it is called MOL-feta. The name itself has Romanian names, according to Guido A. Manselli: MOL-tzam (popular Thank you), MUL-tumire (satisfaction), na-MOL (mud); MOL-dova (province and river in Romania, Za-MOL-xis, Dacian divinity. Manselli said that this archaeological sit is 7,000 years old and has a balcanic feature. I came up with this topic just to hear decent opinions and not banalities like those of a few days ago when while surfing for a language forum, I read all kind of suburban interventions. This topic is for people whith brain only. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f850gLqerLWmonU.html

I am sold!

I already am learning latin and trying to motivate myself into falling in love with it 😂

Here I am trynna learn Latin so i can pull a King Solomon and control the spooky spookies

Yes. Latin is used to understand English because of its origins.

Insert MST3K/Rifftrax joke about Coronet films...

gotta love the "gotta know latin" attitude but at the same time every word is pronounced wrong..."sisero" instead of "cicero", stuff like that

Google translates the words on Virgil's wax tablet as "my husband turns to me with a knife." I'm a little skeptical.

If someone did a remake today, I think that it could be genuinely more compelling, with color (of course) and authentic costume and hair style; but also with CG images of Rome-as-it-was for young Virgil to dream about. And perhaps some acknowledgment that 'Cicero' and 'Caesar' are pronounced in English differently from the way the Romans did ('the soldier-statesman Kaisar, whom we call Caesar', for example). Or for that matter, saying 'Latin' with a medial 't' instead of a glo'al stop and other poor pronunciations. By and large, though, I think it is still good work.

Great video! Thanks!

In Congress July 4 1776.... “In” also comes from Latin

I want to know if that girl ever did become a writer.

excellent video

This is begging for a Rifftrax version....but why are you?!! studying Latin...camera on girl...eyes rolling.

Oh how we have fallen

An excellent video!

Wow, the arguments are the exact same as they were in the 50s. Things like to change but stay the same

fine fine fine, I'll learn latin.

Young Rod Serling really knew a lot of Latin.

Latin is looking at me saying, im your huckleberry 😅

Latin should be made the official langauge of Europe

9:03 Learn Latin TO SHOW UP THE COMMIES.

4.20: ' ...the Latin language was spread. Later, local tongues began to develop direct descendants of Latin: Rumanian..' Let's take a glance to this Rumanian language! Why Rum. apă (water) must develop directly from Latin aqua?

I know that some English words came from French, and Latin...

Her using the American accent for Latin is blasphemy and it’s not the right pronunciation

I want to teach Latin. Does anyone have any advice? edit: I did it guys, I'm a Latin teacher now!!!

4:20 Scotland was never a part of the Empire, though.

Thought it said "Corona Films"

mortuum dicere volebam, quod latina possum!

what is that pronunciation

isn't ARMA VIRUMQUE CANO, I sing wars and man?

Nice vidéo

Lingua Latina est maximi momenti

Okay okay, it's normally to have somewhat of an accent when speaking other languages. But at 5:52 her pronunciation hurt my ears so badly.. She reads those words almost as if they were English. And she is a Latin teacher ffs... (don't know of she really was one or if she was just an actor pretending to be one. But in either case.. ).. A teacher should know that you do not pronounce 'sub' like im the English word submarine My goodness.. Sorry for the rant. But I just have no understanding for that

Non carborundum illegitimi.

I’m learning Latin. I don’t like Rome nor Catholicism nor Italy one bit. Still doing it tho

caecilius est in horto

Wow - so cringily sexist when the narrator asks the young woman why she's taking Latin - because she couldn't possibly be going into science, law, or medicine.

Eu sou uma falante nativa de Latim I'm a native Latim speaker Fonte: confia

Now I know:)

IN DEO SPERAMUS

Rant beginning: I hate to be a party-pooper, but every one of those reasons touted in 1951 has been debunked. Latin grammar isn't anything like English grammar...not even close. And the most commonly-used English words came from the Germanic branch of Indo-European...not Latin. The so-called huge percentage of words derived from Latin actually came through French...no need to go back to Latin for the connection. A few days study will get you all the Latin legal and medical words you need to know. Same for the major prefixes and suffixes. The people who pushed Latin on generations of suffering students were the of the same mind as those who -- in the past -- "standardized" spelling by adding the "b" to "debt" and "doubt" and the "p" to "receipt" because they wanted English to be more like Latin than it really was. Ditto the silly rule about not ending a sentence with a preposition. But the worst of all was my junior high guidance counsellor telling me (and all the other so-called top track kids) that if I wanted to learn Spanish, a year of Latin first would be most helpful. My response to her was (and this is the truth): "No, Miss Liddick, I think a year of Spanish first will help me more with my Spanish." My four years of Spanish were more helpful to me than any Latin could have been as I subsequently took Italian in college and learned "tourist" French...neither of which has grammar similar to Latin. Rant over!

THE C In Latin is pronounced K so this is hilarious from that perspective.

Woaw

Pulchra bonaque femina hic in video est!

et tu Bruti?

who is here because of mr mayfield?

Not convincing at all. Still, Latin is a great language.

Ah, yes, that famous geographic feature of the Roman Empire, the Dacian Sea. And then the Romanians drained all of the water so they could live there.

Romanaes eunt domus.

QVIDQVID LATINE DICTVM SIT ALTVM VIDITVR

The only good argument out of all of them was the girl who is studying it to become a better writer in English, learning how to better put words together.

1. The girl couldn't be a doctor or lawyer? 2. Don't most Latin words in English come from French, not directly from Latin, so...

cave ruber sub lecto sunt.

Man I dislike American Latin accent so much!

Rumanian? 😂😂😂

She is pronouncing the world all wrong.

Why to study Latin ? Because it is 1951

Ah Latin, the second oldest language. Right after Vulgar Latin.

Awful language. But when you grow up all the lawyers quote Latin proberbs and you are silent like a fish.

Non sense...🤨

Latin can teach you some basic knowledge but you should not glorify it! Technology is much more important today. And Latin teachers will kill their own language through their arrogance! ;)

studying Latin improves your brain because it forces you to think and in a world of depensant morons ruined by TV and social media it makes a difference.

Why Study Latin? (1951) Why Study LGBTQ? (2023)