> By learning Latin you multiply the speed at which you learn romance languages, which will allow you to understand and communicate with a much larger share of the world.Īs someone else said, you can just as well learn a Romance language and you'll have the same benefit when learning a second. This approach has quite a bit to recommend it, most prominently that it's easy to find fluent models of the pronunciation of a living language. You can find similar conventions for other dead languages - it's the only option available for Chinese where we just plain don't know what the pronunciation was in 600 BC, and it's "Reuchlinian pronunciation" in Greek.
The rest of Italy has a better claim to be speaking "some derivative of medieval Latin" than the Vatican does the Vatican's version presumably reflects mostly-arrested development after a certain point, as far as syntax goes.Īs for pronunciation, I tend to assume (without any relevant knowledge) that the Vatican's Latin pronunciation is just how the same written words would be pronounced in standard Italian. This is vague the syntax and pronunciation of Latin change continuously into Italian. > I assume that at the Vatican they speak some derivative of mediaeval Latin Something similar holds for ancient jokes. For example, it's much easier to make sense of ancient misspellings if you can recognize that the misspelling and the target word would have sounded the same.
That is true, but there are questions for which you want to know what the historical pronunciation was. I think that none of these require historically correct Latin pronunciation.
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