American speaks Latin with Italians at the Park! 🇮🇹 Will they understand?

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Everybody gangsta till the man starts speaking Proto-Indo-European

It's so fun seeing the thought process on people's faces when they realize "why is this guys Italian so weird – wait what the hell is he speaking – OH okay this is Latin" -B

I speak Portuguese and it’s amazing how you can feel the meaning of what is being said. It’s like recalling a language you never spoke.

You speak Latin very clearly. Every syllable is understandable.

As a native English speaker, I understood almost everything; I read the subtitles.

The young couple just killed it. They understood everything.

The whole concept of inter-intelligibility between languages is fascinating,

As an old Spaniard (72), I can say we had to study a lot of Latin language when I was a boy (10), for 7 years. So I could understand almost everything at first. It was curious and touching to me to listen to it after so many years! Thank you very much!

You are the kind of people we love to have in Italy, Man of culture, Smiley and easy going. Thank you for spending your time here with us!

"Et quid est nomen canis" This is the kind of questions I want to be asked by an Italo-American speaking Latin in Rome

Lucius, you should try this in Sardinia. The dialect on the island is the nearest thing to Latin

0:37 Upon hearing Latin he felt fear and his first reaction was to fight you.

I like how he is actually using a lot of direct language pedagogical techniques to help people understand what he is saying. Defining words, elaborating on the question, using gestures, but always staying in the target language. It’s very friendly and unintimidating and people seem to respond quite well to it.

it's legendary when the guy immediately gets "cerasa" (cherry), which is very different from "ciliegia", because "cerasa" is also how they call cherries in lots of southern dialects

I love the way Latin sounds when Italians speak it. The American is also speaking it more the way I would have imagined it actually sounded.

As an italian that studied latin and ancient greek in highschool I find it so amazing and beautiful, thank you for this content <3

I did something similar at a central train station in Germany recently. Little did I know that I was speaking to a classical philology professor. The interaction was both hilarious as well as confusing for the both of us.

Very interesting video. I am from Rome. I would like to add some useful information for non-Italian and non-Roman viewers. Parco di Tor Tre Teste is a public park in the suburbs of Rome, close to a working class neighborhood with the same name. The most part of the people being interviewed by Luke Ranieri state that they live in the next district. In Italy, Latin is still studied at high school, but not in all the types of secondary school. It is just studied in “Liceo Classico” and “Liceo Scientifico” the hardest and most prestigious branches of high schools, attended by 35% of the students primarily coming from well-off and educated families. I am specifying it just because, given the location and the way of speaking Italian of the people (with a very strong Roman accent), it seems very likely that the majority of the park-goers never studied Latin before. Since Luke’s experiment is twice interesting.

As a spoken language Latin is dead, but i learned it in my Scottish High School. Over the years i have used it so many times, not in conversation of course, but because of the influence of the roman empire, it has helped me work out the meaning or origin of so many words and phrases.