As a Romance brother, so to say, I didnāt grasp a single word XD
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TWW Season 1 will be a bit further away than that.
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Thatās curious. Iāve always thought Spanish and Italian are very similar (I mean itās not me, most of the people here think this way, to the point where we have a popular joke about adding a āsā at the end of Italian words and there you have it, youāve learnt Spanish!). The same thing doesnāt apply to French though, even if itās derived from Latin too
Is it wednesday yet?!
Nor for Italian, latin not spoken there so much anymore either. Salve! 
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I did two years of Latin in middle school but it was only to skip an hour of sports (I hated it) and the class was mostly chaos and silly stuff (that poor teacher, I feel bad for her even almost 30 years later lol). 
Also yes I can understand a lot of things in Latin but not everything (I barely remember anything I learned in school thoughā¦maybe ārosa rosae?ā lmao).
Salve is still used a lot to greet people in a mid-formal way. I often use it when I speak on the phone with people for work. āGrazie, buona giornata, salveā.
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Now I see legionnaire in roman century era armor
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Hah Iāve seen this video already! Well heās speaking Latin to Roman āitaliani mediā, they donāt strike me as particularly cultured individuals to say it politely. In truth, I believe that from millennials onwards they would understand atleast vaguely what heās saying (I, as well as all the friends I know, would understand, some of them even better as many study Latin in high school).
I mean come on, ārotundum aedificiumā is basically the same thing as āedificio rotondoā (round building), it doesnāt take a scientist to understand what heās trying to say 
then again, many romans (as well as many Italians) donāt even know the real name of the Colosseo is Anfiteatro Flavio, and the LIVE in the city. Itās no surprise they donāt connect the dots between rotundum and rotondo
We talked of this dude going around different countries speaking latin last year, I think only the priests understood him in vatican which was to be suspected 
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I mean itās not impossible, our current Italian shares MANY similarities to Latinā¦ you may not get the exact meaning, but I think it should be totally possible to communicate among Italian and Latin (and I personally add Spanish too!) with anyone talking in their language but understanding each other
Im always confused when I hear Estonian when it sound same than Finnish and use same words but with different meanings
Finnish and Estonian both belong to the Uralic family of languages.
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Interesting fact abou Fanta flavoured Mentos.
It takes 19 to make a perfect hexagon.
I had the misfortune of learning Latin at school. It was the only O-level I came close to failing (the teacher was appallingly bad). On the other hand, I also learnt French and German (French still fairly fluent, German a bit rusty but I could get by) plus Iām now learning Dutch.
Basically I like languages. I think some people are born to be linguists, others not.
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The joke in France is the following: āIf one wants to speak Spanish, they only have to finish words with āoā and replace with āaā if they want to speak Italianā
Latin uses western alphabets. Asian characters are a different beast
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9/10: The War Within Season 1 Begins with Heroic Raids, Raid Finder Wing 1, Mythic 0 Dungeons, Heroic Seasonal dungeons, a new World Boss, and PvP Season 1
Niceee 6 weeks 6 days of unrated solo shuffle playing ahead ohoy 
I did latin. My mum loves it but apparently they donāt teach it properly any more. I simply couldnāt understand the grammar and tenses, got a C somehow. I got a B in German, whose grammar I also didnāt understand.
I actually learn languages a lot better now I am older and use duolingo. Did some Swedish and Spanish and had no grammar issues.
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Iām using Duolingo for Dutch. Itās frustrating sometimes as it tends not to explain things and expects you to pick them up ā¦ but itās a long time since I was at school and my memoryās crap so I do struggle a bit to remember new words and some of the grammar.
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I canāt remember any if I donāt do it everyday and I stopped a while ago as the Spain trip is on hold indefinitely. I do have to look up stuff on the net as well but it is still a lot better than the awful teaching I had at school. And that was a private grammar school! They were brilliant in most other topics.
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is it free?
Duolingo? Yes.