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Old October 18, 2009, 12:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Perikles View Post
When learning Spanish, I thought knowing some Latin would be useful. Unfortunately, classical Latin vocabulary is not much use, because a lot of Spanish vocabulary is from Vulgar Latin. For example you might think that the Spanish for farm would come from Latin ager. But no, granja from Medieval Latin granica, or finca from Vulgar Latin, and so on.
But you can find words as "agrario" or "agricultura"

I find this is a sad story. It's a pity they don't want to learn Italian. And what's wrong with Italian culture? Creo que no entienden nada