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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
Back on topic -- I speak a little Italian but no Latin; a friend of mine speaks Latin but no Italian. They are very different languages indeed.
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The grammar is, of course, very different, but a great many Italian nouns are pretty unchanged from Latin - eg "water" is "aqua" in Latin, and "acqua" in Italian. When I visit Italy, which I do quite often, I've had considerable success in asking for things by using the Latin word
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