Latin and ancient Greek are useful?
Good day(or night) today I wanna talk about how useful ancient languages can be for all of us, mostly latin because that's the one I know better, far better and than greek which I know just a little and sanskrit which I know nothing, first of all, why should one learn a dead language? I live in italy and here we really are obsessed with latin, almost all high schools has some latin hours and some have greek, it's almost too much one would say and in fact I've read that we italians are the ones that study these languages the most in the world which doesn't really surprise me, especially the latin part I mean Rome is here. Many students, me too, wonder what use do these languages have in today's world, I mean we don't speak latin anymore, some crazy folks do it but they are few(like my professor, and he's awesome) and in these times it's much more useful to learn English for example and in fact we learn lots of english in school, I kinda don't like that to be honest but it's another topic, anyway I thought the same last year when I started doing latin in school and continued to say those things until I tried to learn german, there I found some similarities that were really useful to me, like the fact that both languages have cases which Italian doesn't have, and the more I learned latin or german the easier the other became, then this year I'm going to the linguistic school so I will have to learn french and spanish that with latin are almost(almost because of stupid french pronunciation, why do you read ent sometimes ant and sometimes not like in mangent) a joke. Another good thing that latin does is making your logic something incredible, because it's a very logic language, and this is useful maths and philosophy too, other than being able to look at problems in the world in a more clear way and to understand how to resolve those problems, in general you become smarter and there is also another plus for the language nerds like me, you can know most etimologies of words, come on isn't it awesome when you learn that sir in greek is Despotes like a despot and it's similar to Dominus in latin and it all makes sense! But enough of that I wanna hear what you think about this, are these languages useful to you or not?
