What happened to Latin, the origin of romance languages?

According to LatinLanguages, Latin or Latium was the language originally spoken in Rome. Partially through French, about 80% of the English vocabulary is derived from Latin. Although it's not known for sure how Latin disappeared, after the fall of the Roman empire, the romance languages came into existence. If you're interested in linguistics or the origin of English words, then it would be worth researching these other languages and how they evolved from Latin.

What languages are important for a career?

Investopedia , a site that gobs of information relating to the economy, lists a few languages that are valuable right now, to learn for your career. It also makes the point that along most skills, it's affected by the law of supply and demand. This means that even though Spanish might be the second most spoken language in the U.S., it might be better on your resume to speak something else. Now, you could go out and learn a bunch of languages and get good at one (maybe), but before you decide to pursue one there are some things to think about. The first one is if it's important for the language to be easy. A couple things you can find out about a language to see if it's easy or not is if it's a Latin Language and if it uses the same script (123...abcd...). It helps to have a language be Latin because some of the words will be similar. But, if you don't limit yourself to easy to learn languages, it's much better because then you can gain insight to many cultures.

Welcome to my new blog about language learning.

In my ventures of trying to learn new languages, I've learned that there are many different ways to learn a language. The first strategy I'm going to discuss is actually speaking with native speakers of a language. I think this way is the best because even if you spend years taking a class on the structure of it, there still is a lot of vocabulary, and it's important to know if people understand you or not. On this site LiveMocha, I was talking to someone in a language I learned from school and everything was going fine until I tried to say that I had to leave and the person said (I'm guessing the site translated it to English) "I'm not sure what you want to say." I know this example doesn't seem like it means anything but I think this is a perfect example of how talking to a native speaker is different that translating a sentence in class. Although as native speakers of a language we don't realize it, a lot of what we say is contextual and I think that's a big issue when you go from learning a language to actually using it.