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Hmmm Latin is a fusional language and Korean is an agglutinative language, and while some languages are slowly evolving from agglutinative to fusional, like Estonian, I'm not sure that can be said about Korean. But any excuse to learn Latin is a good one!

However, most Romance languages have lost their fusionality and have become more analytical, and Spanish is not an exemption.

If the OP is into Spanish, I also suggest some reading into Arabic, since the time when Arabs have been ruling the Iberian peninsula has deeply impacted Spanish, especially lexic.

https://www.arabiclanguageonline.com/bl ... nversation.

Learn Scottish

https://youtu.be/bzG_J7RCGS0


https://youtu.be/mroBpgBw0gU

The UK has largely destroyed its other native tongues, and Scottish Gaelic is no exemption. But there is some hope:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_ ... sman.com-1

The US put up a pretty valiant struggle against any language other than English being used, despite the lack of an official national language. (obviously /jk, WTF were those knuckleheads thinking.)

There's a lot of, well-warranted, discussion of the destruction of the various indigenous cultures, but the reason why it had to stop was during the ethnic cleaning of German culture during and following WWI the Supreme Court barred languages from being banned from schools.

History in general can be rather more complicated than it appears on the surface. It reminds me of that historian in Boston Commons that studied 16th century buckles or something along those lines.

Oh yes, the US, Canada, not to mention Australia, China and Russia have lost linguistic diversity to a worrying degree. Africa too. Europe isn't much better - dialects are dying in the name of standardisation and "purity" of languages.
But some languages pushed back. In the US, Mohawk has been revived, Wampanoag, Mutsum and others.

The statistics are quite dire though - every other week a language dies since some languages are just more important than others.

Yes.

Actually the Scottish dialect that Micheal Meyers is speaking in the above clip is actually derived from Scots...Scotland's version of Germanic Anglosaxon. Not even Celtic. The population centers of the cities and the Scottish lowlands are dominated by Scots, or some English-Scots dialect.

In the islands and in highlands of Scotland you can still hear Scottish Gaelic ...or at least the accent derived from it...which a musical sounding brogue very similar to an Irish brogue, and every unlike your Hollywood "Scottish accent".

Can I learn spanish and italian at the same time?

You can, but in my opinion, it’s typically not a good idea to start learning languages that are very similar, like Spanish and Italian, at the same time because it’s very easy to confuse the two and it’ll often slow down progress. However, if you really want to, you could always try it and drop the one you’re less interested in when or if you need to.

I prefer learning one language for at least a few months before adding another. After you have a handle on Spanish or Italian, the other shouldn’t cause much trouble. Of course, different things work for different people.