Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "How Latin Works" video.

  1.  @igorribicic8809  Your understanding was right in relation to the USA. It's different in the UK from the USA.
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  2. Hic tibi bono
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  3. Clair Pahlavi In the UK a 'public' school is a private school. The non-private schools are state schools. I went to a voluntary aided school (state funded but not wholly state controlled) where I studied Latin, but they only taught it to the top class in each year. Learning languages has now become entirely voluntary in England I believe, so the study of languages here has declined just as the world has become more of a global marketplace.
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  4.  @janeza382  I don't understand your English very well. It is a language that is a basis for many other languages such as Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and others, and it influenced English, German and other languages. Knowing Latin makes it easier to understand and learn these other languages and to work out the meanings of many words in these languages even when you haven't learned those languages, and Latin is used a lot in science for naming and classification of plants and animals, for naming elements and in medicine. It's used for accessing original historical texts and in archaeology. It was once a common language of Europe which all nations could use to communicate and it was also once the language of the church. It was the language that preserved learning in the 'dark ages' when much learning was lost outside of the church. It gives access to original Roman classical texts. Rome was much influenced by Greek civilisation and Western civilisation was influenced by Roman. I don't see where romanticism comes into it or what damage you are referring to.
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  5.  @igorribicic8809  I'm not sure where you are talking about, but In the UK schools called 'public schools' are not funded by the state. They are private. State funded schools are just called state schools. Public (Private) schools are more likely to be the ones routinely offering Latin and Ancient Greek languages.
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  6.  @jessecancelmo7635  This rank and file person took Latin, because I was at a Catholic Grammar school, though I had to pass the 11+ to get there.
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  7. Question: Which country still speaks Latin? Answer: The Vatican.
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