Meet the man keeping the language of Latin alive 

He literally doesn’t

he is kind of elderly, of course he des not

LOL

@@le_spoonman4279 he is probably dead now

Dont worry he still has like 20 years

1008

learning latin does that to ya

Anger ages the body

Good number you choose there! ;)

He has arthritis - show some respect.

Wait, a priest that drink beer, that sounds a little abnormal.

@@B10101 lol

"Drinking beer" - this guy seems to be much more current-worldly as his linguistic affection may reveal...

@@palomino73 Well beer's only a little bit older than some of the oldest civilizations, so maybe not so much.

@@smithpb7101 haha, why? Priests are allowed to drink alcohol. Ever heard of Trappist beer? It's made by Trappist monks. There are also monestaris that make wine.

RafaelloCraiova yeah, we go back.

Marcus Tullius Cicero nice to see you here Cicero

Oh yeah where’s Augustine gang at?

@Marcus Tullius Cicero nice to see familiar faces

@@marcustulliuscicero9512 yo man have you been back in Rome lately? Your name is on the prescription! Get your glutius to Parthia!

The fact that your profile picture looks like Tiberius Caesar in color makes this comment even better

You mean he’s been alive since the time of me

@@702Plebe no it's Augustus (Octavian) statue rendered using Ai software

Plot twist he IS Augustus Caesar. Hail Octavian.

Omfg best thread lmao

Lmao

True thoo

you look like a trump survivor 🤢🤮

The equivalent of a Hiroshima survivor today🙃

😂😂😂

PAUL Bunyuns Oh

Determination and Jesus Christ

@phantom killer087 i dont get it

Hes 78 lol

The iron lung 🤣

Sean Carney yep we all do

Yeah. He instantly have my respect.

Same

Sean Carney LOL

But can he sing the super smash bros theme?

It hit different

He spitting some facts!

this how you suppose to teach latin😂 I can't wait to learn latin so I can tell someone this and rant in latin like an angry prophet

1:07 😭😭😭😭

Here he is about 10 years ago in the movie "Religulous": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7ulxAxebDIA.html

Bill Burr

@TuscanHunter31 So does religion.

@TuscanHunter31 people seem to forget that

TuscanHunter31 religion is homophobic though...

How appropriate! Dear Lord, please welcome him into Heaven. God bless him!

May he rest in peace

GG

F

Oh that breaks my heart. God rest his soul.

*latinam

*latinvm

Like we learned Classical Latin in my school starting at 6th grade this man is speaking clerical Latin not too different tho so🤷🏾‍♂️

Tenere me latine

*Ferengi students

I feel bad for him. He dedicated his life to the Church, said his opinions about them, and they threw him away like a piece of garbage. He did make a beautiful contribution to the history of Catholicism, whether the Church actually thinks so or not.

Contradictory, isn't it ?

@@scottkrafft6830 I don't think the church threw him away. Consider his obvious contrary and cranky personality as the cause for him to be sent home, he isn't someone with whom it is easy to get along with.

Supposedly the apostle John never died and is awaiting Jesus' return. What was this guy's name again...?

The Ryan Jester insert x-files theme here

May I ask you... your name?

if this dude is an ancient roman, then he would speak in the classical pronounciation

@@sanaddaoud6541 he may have adapted to the ecclesiastical pronunciation that became commonplace in the church after the fall of the empire

it's not like Trump looks particularly fresh either

Todd Tolson lmaooo

Todd Tolson LMAOOI

Todd, for a man in his 70's, Trump is insanely active and strong.

@@gearbear4530 He isn't. He's extremely unwell and obese.

Latin is dead, and has been dead for a long time, since no one uses it in normal conversation, or speaks it as a native language.

Why would God speak Latin as opposed to any other language?

@@obamna666 Because hes not real.

Who said that God speaks in Latin? It's His Church's language.

@@obamna666 God in christian mythology is a formless eternal force. So He doesn't even speak a singular language. This stupid questions are so uninformed...

Thank you for the dates Michael.

Non è possibile però che la persona che tiene il latino una lingua viva sia un americano e non un un italiano

@@loresog9569 vero pure questo

@@loresog9569 Ma non é l'unico al mondo, sai quanti ce ne sono in Italia?

pero su pronunciación es muy mala (cattivo) probablemente. por lo menos la gente de sardinia sigue hablando un dialecto similar a latin.

But do the Italians who study Latin become fluent? Does it “stick“? I think that makes the big difference at least to me…

Same thing in Croatia, even some elementary schools have Latin classes.

Half? More like 70%

Misic...Blagic... "-ic" You guys make me remember Asterix the gaul... Greetings from southern Brazil!!! 🤔😅

Ja nikad nisam imao latinski u školi XD

@@Konim96 imas u gimnazijama i medicinskim

Well, in America he probably is. My high school offered Latin. I wish I had taken it now.

In Croatia we have to learn it in high school and collage

@@pepsil6725 Beautiful!

@@StrawberryK11 no it's not beautiful 😭

@@asiacammarata lol 😅

Robinson Ramirez lmao😂😂

Robinson Ramirez Lmfao fr👌🤣👌

Lol

Big nose exhale

Maybe you're trying to say he had a Lion as a pet!!! 🦁👑👊😎

@Jenny from the suburbs That is not an incorrect statement. Jesus did indeed speak Hebrew and Aramaic. Both of which are sacred languages of the Church. In fact, the Melkite Rite (I believe) is an Eastern Rite of the Mass that says the Mass in Aramaic, the language that Christ Himself spoke. But the Greek and Latin languages are not any less sacred than the tongues Christ Jesus spoke. The reason why Latin in the Western Church and Greek in the Eastern Church are the languages of the Catholic Church is so that the religion could spread faster across the Mediterranean. And only the Judeans in Israel could understand Hebrew and Aramaic. The Church had to adopt a vernacular language of the Roman Empire so the teachings of Christ could spread out amongst a larger audience and the Empire could be converted to the Christian Faith. A similar thing happened when the heretics Martin Luther and Thomas Cranmer made their own "translations" of the Bible and their own "form" of the Mass, respectively. (Both Luther's "bible" and the "mass" of the Anglicans are recognized as invalid and have been condemned by the Church.) Plus, this transition from the languages of Judea into the languages of the Roman and Byzantine Empire (I believe) further emphasizes that the Church is not only for the Judeans but also the Gentiles. And the use of the Latin and Greek languages. Latin has been recognized by the Church as the universal "catholic" tongue of the Church. "Latin was the language used by St. Peter when he first said Mass at Rome. It was the language in which that Prince of the Apostles drew up the Liturgy... Unchangeable dogmas require an unchangeable language. The Catholic Church cannot change, because it is the Church of God, Who is unchangeable; Consequently the language of the Church must also be unchangeable. Mass is said in Latin because a universal Church requires a universal language. The Catholic Church is the same in every clime, in every nation, and consequently its language must be always and everywhere the same, to secure uniformity in Her service. The Holy Church, the Immaculate Spouse of Jesus Christ has been established for the express purpose of destroying sin and uniting all mankind; Consequently She must everywhere speak the same language." -("The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass," Ch. 37) Fr. Michael Mueller, C.SS.R. 1825-1899 The language that Christ used is not synonymous with the language that His Church uses today. The Latin language spanned the Roman Empire, and Pope St. Peter (St. Matthew 16:18-19) housed the Church's capital and center in Babylon (Rome) itself (1 Peter 5:13) so the Church could slowly take over the evil and secular/pagan empire that had persecuted the Hebrews and the Early Christians. And I never said that I was a Traditional Catholic. I am a Traditional Catholic by faith and private practice, but not by my public practice. I still go to a Novus Ordo parish with my parents and they still adhere to Vatican II. I have to remain in the Conciliar Church in the external so I don't run the risk of possibly breaking the 5th Commandment. I do not want to feel bad for choosing to supposedly disobeying my parents. But I don't believe that they are derived from true Biblical Christianity, (with the exception of the NO mass IF AND ONLY IF the celebrant says at the consecration of the sacramental wine "which shall be poured out for you and for MANY" as opposed to "which shall be poured out for you and for ALL.") And you can call me in schism if you want. That's fine. But I take my beliefs based on what the Bible states and what the Popes and Saints of the Church have always faithfully taught. And based on the fruits of the NO being Masonic and Protestant and the fruits of the Vatican II council being pagan and secular and religiously tolerant and indifferent, I cannot under my right mind say that these things are "Catholic." The Truth remains that the Catholic Church is the One True Church that Christ established on Earth, that all men MUST be adherents to in order to be saved. And that this Church truly exists within the few Traditional Catholics in this world who maintain the True Faith. Pope Innocent III "Eius Exemplo" Dec. 18, 1208, "By the heart we believe and by the mouth we confess the One Church, not of heretics, but the Holy, Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside of which we believe that no one is saved." St. Athanasius, "Even if the Church of Christ were reduced to a handful of true believers and one true priest, they would remain the true Church of Christ on Earth." "Only the Church possesses the charisma of truth."

i saw your collection very nice

Oh I don't think so

Until muslims conquest the World

Samurai FLS never gonna happen.

Not really tho.

Aaron Cardenas yeah, Latin is in languages like English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French

@@spencerconway5468 The main Latin languages are Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian.

Dang :(

Requiescat in pace.

Fake Latin basically

@@tourmaline1810 is modern English fake English because it has changed since Beowulf was written?

coi tip that was considered Anglish so yes

@@coitip2920 Is modern {language] fake [language]. No because that's natural evolution. Liturgical Latin is Latin pronounced incorrectly, like Italian (helps that the Papacy is in Italy) whereas Classical Latin is the Latin spoken by Romans (native speakers). Even the phrase "Veni, vidi, vici" isn't pronounced the way Caesar (whose name is also widely pronounced wrong) would've said it. It's really said with a 'w' sound than a 'v' sound.

@@tourmaline1810 That is also why I believe one should read the older texts with a different pronunciation than the medieval ones. When speaking - and not reading any reference text- it is up to the speaker itself and one can decide whichever pronunciation they prefer. I personally opt for the restituta, but I do believe it makes more sense to prefer the ecclesiastic pronunciation, since, in strictly evolutionary terms, it is the righteous continuation of a language whose actual pronunciation we cannot fully grasp, especially when it comes to melodic intonation.

succēduntne?

Not really. They teach to translate from latin to german, not actually speak latin.

In Italy too

Thats wrong. There is no school in Germany where you can learn latin as a spoken language. You learn only how to translate texts.

Hättest du Latein Klassen genommen würdest du es besser wissen.

•Andy • makes sense, every time someone speaks Latin it sounds like they are saying a curse

Lil Papal State No, he’s like 17, he just took the AP test.

Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!😡

I like your shade of his appearance versus age the best… Congratulations :-)

@@danielled108 Oh no, the barbarians will invade us, thanks for the great news, soldier! Salve!

Beedy KH medical terminology is based on Greek and Latin language. Isn’t that cool?

@@jeffree123 it is

@@jeffree123 That's cool

Just wanna give props for your avatar, it's boss

@@F3z07 Thank you! Thinking about it now, I'm Venom snake since I will become a medic, Not Naked snake.

HOW

@@Kolchak_Enjoyer just read he passed from COVID. So sad.

Malicious Troll Rise up, no bridge society.

This! This is so beautiful!

Silly Protestant heretics

@Malicious Troll No, but it can't be! I've seen a bridge with my own eyes once! Bridges always appear in my dreams, it's impossible that they can't be real!

My English professor (a former Catholic from New York who is now a Methodist in the south) told us this exact thing in class. Apparently when she first moved here a man literally told her that she was in a cult because she was Catholic and we live in the Bible belt.

even with spanish you can distinguish some words of written latin just because of spanish's origin

@@justinryan5433 I agree

All I can remember are a few words, numbers, and some phrases I had to memorize. Like sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, dominos deus sabaoth. And something like pleni sunt chali et terra, gloria tua?

@@JoshWomble That sounds very familiar.

@@JoshWomble That would be the Sanctus or the Holy hymn sung in every mass. Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus deus sabaoth Pleni sunt caeli et terra Gloria tua Hosanna in excelsis Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini Hosanna in excelsis

Lmao

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Javilifts ....really?! 🙄

Hate when that happens

Accidentally purges demons*

Declines? I missed that in my 4 years of Latin. We did have a Roman banquet every year where we "reclined" and ate with our fingers.

@Aesthetic Decisionyeah, but there's quite lot of them

Not really...

@Aesthetic Decision I disagree, I think it's a hipster thing. I know quite a few young people who like attending Latin mass, while they do not adhere to any conservative or traditionalist viewpoints whatsoever. Call it anecdotal if you will, but it fits the profile of hipster mentality perfectly. I'd like to add that I don't particularly like the term "hipster", but it's a label society has applied to young people that take interest in nostalgia.

I’m in my 20’s and I find Latin mass so cool and somewhat beautiful.

Alkyl Dimethyl Benzyl Ammonium Chloride LoL Latin Mass is not attended because it’s hipster but because it’s our roots and because it’s a Mass our grandparents attended. Learning Latin language is a whole different thing though. The language gives you access to the thousands of BC and AD Roman literatures which were thrown into the dustbin of history by anglosphere print media / academia who insist on a few chosen Roman historians and poets. Not to mention you get to read what was read by the fathers of the Florence Renaissance like Marcus Vitruvius for example.

#MakeLatinGreatAgain!

@@alexeltita ik. Cause I speak Romanian. I am Romanian😂 but the only thing we really have in common is that we pronounce the words the same. But they are still very different in many ways.

@@Kirito-sp7jn No soo much different (Nu chiar asa de diferite :) )

Kirito You also have very heavy slavic influence in your words...and you don’t really declinate, so...yeah, not really.

Actually, the Sardinian language is closest to Latin

same

Illa est vera

Wasn’t Hebrew revived by Ben Yehuda?

Kinaman No, the language was surviving like Latin right now just spoken for religious purposes. What happened was that everyone was just like “why don’t we just speak our common tongue to connect better to one another” and everyone agreed and boom

Kinaman it was a germanized version of the language which is why it is a child of Hebrew as a language but still considered a different entity

Kinaman Yiddish is a Germanic language, not a Semitic language.

Satanas in cubili tuo?

@Oscar Bastidas tf is American?

Welp, somebody call a priest

Best solution I can think of, Pater Noster

Vade retro me Satana quoniam??

ikr, maybe latin in the us, because a lot of europeans still learn latin and a few can speak it (kind of)

Italian here...i had to study latin and i loathed it, i definetly can't speak it.

Ancient literatures here... Lettere classiche/antiche. Some latin etc

Spoken.

Revan Ruler yeh i learnt it in school when we were 11-14 in Northern Ireland.Its not common but i wouldnt say its uncommon either lol

How do you say I like eating hamburgers in Latin

@@CEOofSleep "ego amaro edere Hamburger" maybe? I don´t know and I don´t really care.

@@TomOkkaTom what language sounds like latin

@@CEOofSleep Google it yourself. Just enter neo-latin-languages. Why are you asking me?

@@TomOkkaTom can I kiss you

This video is about an American who revolutionizes Latin education. We don't need to all take classes, we'll be interested if we choose to be. When we are, we'll revolutionize it for you ;)

@Funtime Florian oof size large.

This guy is a master teaching Ivy league professors and working in the Vatican. Those introductory courses don't compare.

@Funtime Florian The ones took us out of the dark ages.

That is so interesting. I did not know about Vasai at all. I will be looking up more information about Vasai later. Thank you for sharing.

Sadly the crisis in the Church stole from us the real Mass. But God has His plans, let's trust on him.

Sir Jocas El Jocoso it’s very helpful. I recently learned that ‘idus’ is Latin for ‘inflamed’.

Useful, but not as useful as studing english, spanish, german, french, chinese, portuguese, japanese, italian, russian, dutch, swedish and so on

Fernando you do realize that 4 of those languages you just listed stem from Latin right?

@@Lierrepourtoi read my name again. I speak portuguese, so yes. It doesn't change what I've said. Go study old English instead of English then.

Fernando just curious, do you think it’d be more beneficial to study those languages because they’re still in use or is there a different reason?

When learning a new language, the trick is to read and listen to a lot of texts in the language. Usually it is great to learn basic words and grammar first, which often make the beginning a bit easier. Then you should begin learning more words, until you can understand most of the words you come across. After that, hearing and reading stuff in that language will make your acquire it almost effortlessly.

Lol I enjoy speaking a language much more when I know I use proper grammar

I love this comment because I just started learning Latin and I LOVE learning the vocabulary but I’ve been struggling with the grammar. I’ve been thinking maybe I shouldn’t focus so heavily on grammar because once I learn a word I can comprehend what’s being said pretty well. I’m thinking the grammar will come naturally the more I read and I probably shouldn’t beat myself up over it. It’s only going to deter me from learning more.

😂😂 Dominus et Deus.

Quid agis?

Nicholas Patton bene, tu?

Deus est bene.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7xFddu9QkKg.html

ok this is epic

He is a heretical, flippant fool. He denies Church doctrine.

@Gary Allen He's a fool. He should be kicked out of the Vatican and the Catholic Church.

@@anthonypuccetti8779 I agree. But before that, kick out all the pedophiles, rapists and corrupt priests/cardinals/bishops, allow female priests and get let the clerics have wife and kids.

@@anthonypuccetti8779 The Catholic church is filled with fools. This man is bringing the average intelect of the entire Catholic church up tenfold.

That's cool! Enjoy it

Awesome! You’re blessed. I used to teach at a Catholic school. Good times.

lucky!!

Wish my school will do the same :(

The simpler the better

@@111-k4z No actually. You'd be surprised how many people go through life not even knowing the basic Roman numerals 1 to 9

the average american dont know roman numerals lmao

@@awesomeness967 the average American has a girth of LII inches and thinks the history of the world started in MDCCLXXVI

@@crazydavec3861 Lol don't you think the first figure is too generous? 😅

@@isaiah3872 Americans yes

Cool

We need to do that with Latin too. Both fine, lovely languages. And don't even get me started with Nheengatu!

Yeah, it's weird. He spends all his time looking at ancient scriptures and books but felt his own records were too over with to be of interest. Maybe because he didn't write it in Latin?

I thought that was so sad.

Just like the fall of western Roma. ROMA INVITCA

@Santiago Suárez vulgar Latin evolved in those languages, not classical Latin.

it did not evolve to them, but into them. Thats a difference

@@kikoski28 vulgar latin is literally the latin that people actually used to speak lol.

@@sirbjergsen308 yesss, but the language this gentleman teaches and speaks is classical Latin.

Specifically Italian.

Petition to put all mapping videos in latin

Christian T. G. Thank you

😂

Esattamente

Cavolo, mi chiamo Leonardi anch'io...

Well no, a dead language is a language no one speaks but it is known and something you can learn. It was never dying but it is basically a dead language outside of Catholic Churches.

Ma se gli studenti di oggi sanno a mala pena parlare Italiano figuriamoci diventare fluenti in latino alle superiori

@@claudiopolonia7854 anche questo è vero

Yeah the audio quality of the recording could use some work still though. It is a bit crackly.

Wir lernen allerhöchstens wie man mit Mühsal den Ovid übersetzt, und selbst dann ist der Anteil an Schülern, die ein paar Sätze fehlerfrei hinbekommen verschwindend gering. Sprechen kann die Sprache so gut wie keiner. Benutzt doch erstmal euer Gehirn.

Latin is already dead though.

Ulaş Aldağ Latin is much more complex, Spanish/French is simplified.

Ulaş Aldağ Latine loquerisne?

Because we have no real knowledge of how it could have sounded back in the day, and there should be an official standardisation to do that, which would indeed play a huge part into readmitting Latin in the array of spoken languages, but it would also deprive it of part of its integrity and mock it to be comparable to other spoken languages. Are we really looking forward to speaking Latin or are we more interested in learning what it can teach us in the form it's been left to us? I agree it would be a positive idea to implement spoken Latin into the teaching, but it still is a language that has come to us mainly in written form and I think we should respect that and all the variables that fact implies (i.e. how different written language is from spoken) :)

But learning the grammar is the main problem, because there is so much of it. I learned Latin for about 5 years in school. Translating old texts isn't that difficult, but it takes time. Works exactly like maths as you correctly stated. You have like 20 tempora and using those correctly while speaking is really hard. In the same time I learned to translate latin, I also learned to read and speak spanish fluently. Latin takes a lot of effort

We have no reason to speak it but reason to read it

Cyrus Cooney he’s a loose cannon but he gets results

Max God himself?

Max no idea but they're not doing a good job

plot twist: It's Latin that's keeping *him* alive

@@ashishpandit5609 True. As long as god truly loves you, you will be guaranteed to live to a very old age of at least 80 years old.

God

Ave, true to Caesar.

Very cool😎

The NCR will rise

Schandoro07 How dare you speak such dreadful words to a Frumentarii of the Caesar

I doubt they'd teach you classical Latin, it would have probably been Middle Ages Latin used by Burgundians and Visigoths.

Why wouldn't they let you to study? So wrong! Everyone should have the opportunity to pursue any study.

Learning Latin is not more useful than learning Old Norse. Try to learn something serious i think.

@@sonfiravun4988 Old Norse is literally useless it only lets you learn Scandinavian and barley German a little easier. Latin helps you with Greek, Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, Slovakian, swiss, portugese, etc.

@@Emirates1598 Many Americans (too many) perceive America as the center of the world, the best country to have ever existed, a superior country (which it is not).

@Ryan Shannon In fact I said that only in some schools we study Greek and Latin. Other than that, our school system remains one of the best in the world and surely better than yours lol (you're not kidding anybody). You're the perfect example of an America-centric/America-centred. Keep living with a closed mindset.

Meanwhile, many Italians suck English and can't be understood abroad. Not a smart move.

@@EricDec And most Americans suck at Italian. Jokes aside, maybe Italians aren't the best English speakers out there, but at least we have a vast culture and one of the best school and juridical systems in the world. Unlike you Americans, who are totally self-absorbed as a nation, patriotic to an extreme level, who have no idea about how the world is outside of your country, but most importantly who don't even bother about what doesn't concern you, and although Italy has many problems (and idiots), it also has and has had many qualities and great, intelligent people, while you, as a society, have fallen apart, and the fall has yet to ende. You ignore your origines: if it weren't for Europeans you wouldn't even exist. If it weren't for those ancient civilizations which developed in Mesopotamia and later (guess where) in the Mediterrenean sea, humans wouldn't have reached the knowledge and the abilities that were essential for the development of tools, institutions, societies, cultures, art etcetera... Pretty much for the development of every skill and technology; for the development of the human mind.

@@EricDec Btw to "suck English" isn't even correct. Your English is being corrected by a non-English speaker (much younger than you, I may add).

Anche allo scientifico

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.

This is a certified *bruh* moment

She hot

Web knowledge injection than why isn’t there a larger number of worldwide Latin speakers if all of Italy knows the language?

@@beckgrit3688 If you learn Latin, you don't learn how to speak it. It's all about translating texts from Latin to Italian, German, ...

beck grit Mind you the vast majority of students in Italy don’t get anywhere near fluent in a second language let alone Latin