DEBUNKING the reasons people give for learning an ancient language (Patreon)

Top 5 reasons to learn Latin DEBUNKED

Most of the usual reasons given for learning Latin and other ancient languages are often appeals to the practical — but these don't follow logically. Allow me to debunk many of these in this video, and tell you the real reason. Download the EKHO app for high quality Ancient Greek and Old English audiobooks: https://ancientlanguage.com/ekho/?utm_source=polymathy&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=top5learnlatin Sign up for your next class in Latin, Old English, Biblical Hebrew, or Ancient Greek at: https://ancientlanguage.com/ 🦂 Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LukeRanieri 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com 🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella "Vir Petasātus" https://learn.storylearning.com/lu-promo?affiliate_id=3932873 ☕️ Support my work with PayPal: https://paypal.me/lukeranieri And if you like, do consider joining this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLbiwlm3poGNh5XSVlXBkGA/join 🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/latin-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables 🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/ancient-greek-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables 🦉🏛 Latin in Action · Free Latin Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45Siz4rlDqcXjzQqIRSy0skGlf 🦉🏺 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam 🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian) https://www.youtube.com/ScorpioMartianus 🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio: https://lukeranieri.com/audio 🌍 polýMATHY website: http://lukeranieri.com/polymathy/ 🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukeranieri/ 🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast: https://youtube.com/LegioXIII 👕 Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus 🦂 https://www.ScorpioMartianus.com 🦅 https://www.LukeRanieri.com 📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2nVUfqd Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart 0:00 Intro to the Debunk 1:40 Reason 5 2:25 Paul Giamatti from The Holdovers 4:42 Why bother to do it? 9:05 Blue jays getting peanuts 10:03 What to tell people