The Value of Latin | Ryan Sellers | TEDxMemphis

I find it interesting how this generation believes that latin isnt as important as the last 3000 years of generations believed.

Fascinating that his insight regarding the diversity of the coliseum crowd touched nothing on the universality of depravity in humankind, this world needs Jesus!

I'm learning both Italian and Latin, the amount of effort I need to do to grasp Latin from Lingua Latina per se Illustrata is very amusing, but totally worth it. It is like growing wings and being born into another existence. It's a lifelong pursuit, it kinda helps that my mother tongue is spanish. Once you know spanish, english and latin, it's like seeing through the matrix, literally. Knowing the origins of words is incredible. Also I must recommend everyone to a least try LLPSI and Italian Nature method by Jensen.

J.K Rowling and Mark Zuckerberg??? Yea, now I'm never learning Latin.

I'd rather learn Russian.

Fantastic insight. Having studied Latin for 10 years in England, I can confirm that it really does help for languages such as French, Spanish and especially Italian

❤ i love that!!! “Latin is not a dead language - its an eternal language!” 😮

What a coincidence, i am studying Latin! 😊

I agree, but only the ROmance country should learn Latin. No need the entire world

It never died! Heck it is still used by the Holy Roman Catholic Church today.

The pluperfect subjunctive, now how does that go again? I did know it. If it was the passive pluperfect subjunctive it would be relatively easy.

Nothing is eternal besides G-d

That’s my teacher! 💪💪

I didn't know a lizard could smile.

Great and concise lecture!

The introducer killed my interest. Bla bla bla

I wish Latin comes one again

Latin can’t be dead! It’s still “Roman” around! 🤓

I love languages and I'm really into Latin, but I completely disagree with what he said. This myth of Latin as the most logical, most effective, most powerful language is hard to die. As beautiful, fascinating and nuanced as it may be, it is just a language, neither better nor worse than the modern ones. Morever, considering it as a system of rules does not take into accout the vitality of the language and is not at all the most effective way to acquire it. Learning a modern, alive language (in the sense that it has a community of native speakers) would be probably much more useful and surely equally enriching.

Training and practice are important. You can’t hand someone a Tedx Talk and hope for the best.

Latin didn't contribute to science like Greek language

Hoc totum verum est: de Lingua Latina !!!! (en latín)
- This is the whole TRUTH about Latin language !!!! (english)
- Questa è tutta una verità sulla lingua latina !!!! (italiano)
- Esta es toda una verdad sobre el idioma latino !!!! (español)
- Acesta este un adevăr întreg despre limba latină !!!! (română)
- To jest cała prawda o języku łacińskim !!!! (polski)

Gotta be honest here. I'm studying Latin in my on volition, but this talk almost made me not want to do it anymore. It's a really bad sell of it IMO.
Just bad argumentation and droning on about it being good because I said so.

Latina lingua aeterna est.

Latin will be the language of the future.

I watch this every time I ask myself WHY THE F AM I STUDYING LATIN

I love Latin, but I don't think it should be forced on students in school. Many (in fact I dare say most) students will probably never develop an interest or love for Latin no matter how much you make them use it. I was taught Mandarin in primary and secondary school as a second language as part of the national curriculum, and there is nothing worse than being constantly tested and punished for being bad at a language which is forced on you and you have no interest in! Many of my peers felt the same way, and this policy has had resulted in generations of my countrymen being turned off the language and avoiding it, even though most of us are ethnic Chinese.

He's right. I learned more grammar from 4 years of Latin classes than from 12 years of English in school.

Golly, this looks like a fascinating video, but my TED card is full of punches.

Latin is extremely important yet not crucial. Many successful people did very well in their fields without knowledge of Latin.

this dude’s cadence is so weird

WHERE ARE THE MACRONS!!!!!!! Long vowels are not to be ignored! lol

It bugs me how Latin teachers let students ignore short v. long vowels when it is ESSENTIAL to Latin!

I'm interested in Latin, and languages more broadly, but this guy makes me want to yell "THE PLURAL OF ANECDOTE IS NOT DATA"" and "CORILLATION IS NOT CAUSATION" into his face. It's not surprising that people who are clever enough to succeed in business and other mentally challenging pursuits are clever enough to be good at Latin. That does not mean that Latin taught them those abilities. Think how many excellent Latin student there are who did not do anything notable with their lives. Think how many notable people there are who did not study Latin.

vita sine Latine nihil est

Very good video ! Excelent. I do agrre that the Latin culture is not opposite of the technology , but comes within

dude needs some aqua

Thank you!

No western languages use declension though. Wouldn't it be better to learn Spanish instead

Italian and Spanish are closest to original Latin

I'm not sure how I feel about this man's sales pitch. I'm not trying to buy a language, good sir.
You don't need to sell the bones of my spoken word back to me.

That is fascinating how people praise Latin and at the same time deprecate Esperanto, which is much more structured, regular and consistent than Latin and any national language. Other than that, Esperanto is easier and at the same time much more expressive and intuitive! It is LIVING language with approximately 2 millions of speakers, and there are even native speakers. I'm a big fan of Latin too, but in my opinion Esperanto is just a so much better option: 90% of learners would left learning Latin as soon as they realize how difficult it is, while one can learn like 10x more Esperanto in the same portion of time. And Esperanto has 80% Latin vocabulary, although its' structure/grammar is absolutely different.

RIP Kobe

Latin is dead. You should learn Standard Arabic and it will give you the same effect on your brain as Latin. Arabic is the Sanskrit/ Latin of Islam.

mi piace dirlo: sono un Latin lover.

Wow this is brilliant! Now I want to take Latin more than ever before. There are just so many reasons. I love science, math & technology and Latin can help us all to be more logical, analytical, better problem solvers and the list goes on. Thanks.

Salvete. Latina similis Lingua Lusitana est. Ego intelligo multum verba Latina.

i love the intro

amo hoc!

Ave Sellers. Gratias.

Let's introduce latin in some country as official language. Cuba crosses my mind.