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13/03/2013 · Who still speaks Latin? Believe it or not, there's a whole living Latin movement. People who are trying to get Latin to be used as a spoken language, not just treating it as a dead language that's on a page, that you might read in a Latin class, but actually a language you can speak conversationally.

15/12/2020 · We’re with some of the most famous Latin authors of all time, people like Cicero and Julius Caesar. Both are native Latin speakers, just like everyone else at the time, talking in Latin as they go about their business in Rome. You would speak to them in Latin, and they would reply in Latin—it was everyone’s first language.

Although we may think of Latin as the language of Virgil and Cicero, the fact is Latin was spoken as a native language by people from every social class and level of education. Its intricacies are no more impossible to master than those of other languages that people somehow manage to speak, such as Russian or Turkish.