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In Rome there's a place called Accademia Vivarium Novum where you can only speak Latin or ancient Greek. Maybe if you go there, you'll find someone to talk to

It's so cool to see an American and a Nigerian communicate in Latin. Two people born on opposite sides of the world meeting in the middle and having a conversation in an ancient language. That's nuts to me.

Next time on Polymathy: American Interviews the Pope in Latin

"An American, a Mexican, a Nigerian, and an Hungarian walk into the Vatican's taberna..."

true story: I am a Syriac Orthodox priest. I had the happiness to meet another Orthodox priest friend Russia, whose English was very limited. I am conversant in a few other modern languages, but only know a handful of Russian phrases. He spoke no other modern languages in common with mine. We laughed at that, and then he said "Latina?" And then we had about 10 minutes of good conversation.

Next Time: American yells Old Norse at people as he pillages their homes

I've never heard Latin truly spoken before; it's quite beautiful.

the madman did it

I'm Sicilian Italian. I understand SOME Latin, probably more than most other Europeans. I hate to admit it but, and the last time I was at the Vatican was in December 2004, I was one of the last people on earth to see Pope John Paul in person before he died.

Italian who studied Latin at school here - I'm impressed by your pronunciation, you don't have the american sounding vowels at all, in fact you completely NAIL the pronunciation taught in school in Italy. Congrats!

That this guy can switch to Ecclesiastical pronunciation is astounding in itself. He should go to Latin parishes and speak with those priests.

And THIS is why it is so important to keep Latin as the PRIMARY liturgical language of the Church while allowing the vernacular as it makes sense. The vernacular has many pros, but one of the greatest experiences of my life was attending Mass at the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem alongside African, Asian, and European Catholics and while none of us could understand each other's mother tongue, when we prayed, it was in a common language.

This, people, we have just seen now was a faint attempt to create a channel called: Easy Latin. Let's study guys, for one day we can be interviewed by this honorable gentleman.

Funfact: since the official languages ​​of the Vatican City are Latin and Italian, the official Vatican website is also available in Latin

"My name is Lucius"