Creator and presenter of the Langfocus channel on @Youtube since 2015. Language enthusiast and lifelong learner.
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Loving my baby and loving Dad life 👶🏻 My wife and I are under-slept, but overjoyed nonetheless.
I used to think family life would be boring, but this is the best. 😊
Spanish & Portuguese have Arabic loanwords stemming back to the days of Moorish rule.
Here are some examples of food vocabulary from Arabic.
Are the Balto-Slavic languages really a thing?
It's the widely held consensus that the Baltic languages and the Slavic languages have a shared Proto language, and together form a branch of the Indo-European language family.
This has become more widely accepted in recent decades, though some people still deny or doubt it.
What language is the Hebrew Bible written in? Obviously HEBREW, right?
Yes, but not *entirely*. Some sections were written in Aramaic.
Could Latin ever be revived as a native spoken language?
(meaning in its Classical or Ecclesiastical form, not modern Romance languages)
I think it would be possible if the will were there, but it would end up being different from Latin as we know it. And if that were the case, what would the point be, since there are already modern descendants of Latin (the Romance languages)?
This video is a clip from a members' video I released on Patreon (entitled "Is Latin Really Dead?":
patreon.com/posts/patreon-me…