Latin for the Modern Creator

[Rev.Cambeul]

Rather than learning to speak Latin, I suggest learning to speak Spanish or Italian. Learn a living language. If you know Spanish, you can converse with just about everyone with a Romance language. Once you have a good grasp of that, switch and start on Latin; treat Latin as a sideline of Spanish (or Italian).

For anyone that wants to learn Spanish or Italian, I can supply audio CD lessons typically valued at well over a thousand dollars. And if a large enough group of Creators agree with me here and form a consensus as to which modern language to learn - Spanish or Italian - I will join in, begin replaying my language course CD's and maybe even review my lessons from the School of Languages.

@Cailen.

[Nigel]

I can appreciate your thoughts on this.. obviously 'live' languages are going to be of more use in the world than one that is sheltered.. but, and I am thinking of myself here, I don't think I would have the capacity to learn more than one. I did French for three years, and found it awkward, whereas I found German and Dutch relatively easy (as well as Irish and Ulster-Scots). Some people are just great at it, I don't think I am of that number 
Now obviously this is an accent thing, whereas we in Northern Ireland have quite 'harsh' accents.. very sharp with our consonants etc so, for me, I will do the Latin alone, and try to get great at that. With perseverance, I'll might be able to help others in the future  .

At the end of the day, we are all of European stock, and all have lineage that falls back to our various European languages, so to have many in our Church that can speak them all would be fantastic, an asset actually.

[W.Anthony]

Classical Latin is the most formal, and I think it is the best.
It actually has a lot of resources, and this summer I will be studying it. Wish me luck