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Latin Update 3

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Salve! (greetings!) The vocab that I've learned from the textbook was not really conversational Latin which makes sense since it's not a spoken language anymore. Instead, I learned more war vocab and vocab dealing with Roman culture. It was kind of weird for me to not learn how to have a conversation as I did Spanish, but I guess that wouldn't be very useful. I know basic greetings.

If I were to travel back in time, I could speak (terribly) about war and violence, but not about the weather or basic things like that which is odd. It makes sense though because Rome was quite violent and they mostly wrote about war and such so it'd be good to learn about what they were most interested in if one were to pursue Latin to make it useful to them. 

This has been a pretty cool experience and now I know more than I did before. I don't think I'll continue to learn Latin after this because it gets super complicated and I don't really have the patience for that. Also, I want to try to improve my Spanish instead since that language is very much alive and well and I've always wanted to be fluent in another language, but that'll probably take years and not just a few weeks.