My grandmother’s second husband spoke many languages, and always said that learning Latin was crucial to an accomplishment like that, and to learning grammatical concepts to start; the root of all romance languages.
It’s also lovely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySAehzKVJ-k
-JT
Your grandmother’s husband was absolutely correct.
Learning the romance languages is made so much easier with Latin as a basis.
My mistake was taking Latin II, which was largely translating Caesar’s description of Gaul being “divided into three parts.” Yikes, that was a little boring. But then the Italian being spoken in my home became easier to understand.
Thank you so much for that.
It was beautiful.
And as a bonus, other videos listed on the side, will give me pleasure as I listen to each one.
Thanks again, James