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Giorgia Milani 
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Wow, I was so surprised to read all your comments! I studied Classics and therefore had been studied latin and ancient greek and did a lot of translations from those languages into italian but would have never thought that I could work with those languages and be paid for it in the translation market!
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Javier Herrera wrote:
I'm just wondering. Some people have Latin on their profiles. I can't imagine how they gets assignments with an ancient language. Javier
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belive it or not, but recently I was asked to translate several manuscript documents from 17/18th century from latin into Croatian.
Further more, I had to hire a court interpreter/sworn translator Latin-Croatian, because the client needed/wanted this kind of service.
life is full of surprises 
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What Latin is for you in USA or UK, 'Sanskrit' is for most of the Indian languages i.e. mother of all languages.
Sanskrit is not used too much in India yet there are scholars, learners and experts, who teach, study and work in Sanskrit. All ancient Hindu mythological books including four Vedas are written in this ancient languages.
Sanskrit is a language which can open new secrets of ancient science that are mentioned in Hindu mythological books and epics.
Do you know?
Ravana, the king of Lanka (now known as Srilanka) had a jet of his own named 'Pushpak', with which he could fly for miles within minutes/hrs!
Ayurveda, the Indian medicinal epic has remedies for several diseases. These remedies can cure the patients completely!
The ancient Hindu sages/great people had attained a power of meditation, wherein, they could see far away events as well without using live coverage of any television (what Sanjay did in Mahabharata for King Dhritarashtra).
A great weapon, which was as great as nuclear bomb today, was 'Brahma-astra'.
This weapon was owned only by few great warriors. This weapon was respected by all great warriors those days.
When Lord Hanuman was attacked with this weapon, he respected it as it was creature of the Lord of the lords Brahma.
There are lot other stuffs, which are far away from anyone's imagination, that one can't even believe these days that such great stuffs were there in those ancient times.
If anyone has studied Abhijnanshakuntalam, a great epic and story written by Great Poet Kalidas (as Shakespeare is to English, same is Kalidas to Sanskrit), they know the worth of this book and have lots of praises for this epic.
Sanskrit is a language full of curiousity for many people. I can bet that it is grammatically and scientifically, one of the best languages in the whole world.
I, do, respect Latin as well, however, I don't know anything about it except that it is mother language of English, which is used in India widely nowadays.
Take Care!
PRAKAASH
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PRAKAASH wrote:
What Latin is for you in USA or UK, 'Sanskrit' is for most of the Indian languages i.e. mother of all languages.
I, do, respect Latin as well, however, I don't know anything about it except that it is mother language of English, which is used in India widely nowadays.
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Latin belongs to Indo-European group of languages, thus its ancinet roots are in Sanskrit too.
I am wondering if for you, alreday having good knowledge of Sanskrit, leraning Latin would be easier.
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