Latinum top 10 countries

[evan millner]

I am finding it really interesting seeing where in the world people are coming to the Latinum site from:
Here is the most recent top ten list:
United States (US) 11,201
United Kingdom (GB) 2,037
Canada (CA) 872
Brazil (BR) 781
Germany (DE) 656
Australia (AU) 644
China (CN) 409
Korea, Republic of (KR) 325
Italy (IT) 286
Spain (ES) 270

China is steadily rising up the list.....if I could provide the podcast in Chinese and Latin, it would do very well....if there is someone on this list who speaks Chinese, who would be interested in trying to make some Chinese/Latin recordings with me, using SKYPE, I would be really interested in hearing from you.
If you live in London, even better!!!!

[evan millner]

Thanks.
It certainly looks like English is now the new Lingua Franca - but remember, only 150 years ago, French had that role in many respects......so who knows what the future may bring - but for now, the situation is much as you have described it, and is likely to remain that way for a long time to come.

[Pedro Jezler]

Dear Evan,

It's encouraging to see Brazil is on top of the list as the first country that speaks a Latin-based language. The appalling state of Brazilian universities in this area (meaning the absolute lackness of quality didactic materials in Portuguese) is only surpassed by the desire of people to learn Latin in an up-to-date, modern way. The standard Latin textbook in Brazil is currently the oldest edition of Reading Latin, though I find other methods, such as the 4th Edition Cambridge Latin Course sooo much better... Alas, it's as said the Portuguese poet and visionary Fernando Pessoa,

"We must make English the Latin of the wider world. We shall have in Empire, as we have in Culture, a private life and a public one. To what we wish to learn, we shall use English; to what we wish to feel, Portuguese. To what we wish to teach, we will speak English; Portuguese for what we wish to say."

Thank you so much for keeping a glorious, stimulating and, above all, free Latin environment available to hundreds of people in the world.

My warmest regards to you, from among those impressive 781!