I'm an Italian Software Engineer raised in Rome and I did studied Latin in High School. This is a topic that I care about deeply. LATIN IS BOTH DEAD AND USELESS

I'm an Italian Software Engineer raised in Rome and I did studied Latin in High School. This is a topic that I care about deeply. LATIN IS BOTH DEAD AND USELESS. Unfortunately most of italians strongly disagree on these two points like the author of the article and my father. Latin is spoken by very few people and it has very little utility. Latin is much less usefull and much less spoken than all modern Latin derived languages. If you learn Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian or Romanian you will be much better off. The whole argument of Latin being useful to learn later on another Latin language is pointless. If you learn Spanish you will likely learn any other Latin derived language much faster than if you knew Latin. Latin is no more. Don't cling to the past. Move on. English, Spanish and Chinese are the new Latin today.