Dear List Members,
I am delighted to be admitted to this group.
My interest in Latin is due to my background as a freelance French translator from India, who has picked up some Spanish after living in the US.
My knowledge of Latin is at the absolute beginner level (though I can guess the meaning of several individual words by their resemblance to French words, and I am as often wrong as right).
The immediate reason for learning Latin is to understand how modern European languages (including languages that are not Latin’s immediate descendants, such as English, German, Dutch, Russian,) developed their technical registers by borrowing Latin words, or by loan-translations (calques). (I am more interested in loan translations because I hope to write about languages in India, and I want to broaden my knowledge first).
I request the list members to advise me, if time permits.
Thank you,
A. Yadav