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Lesson 7 of 10
Meeting people in Latin
How are you, what is your name, where are you from, I like it: the first five minutes. Play the ten Latin words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.
All 10 Latin phrases in this lesson
- Quomodo tu vales?KWO-mo-do too WAH-les
- How are you?
- Bene valeoBEH-neh wah-LAY-oh
- I'm fine, thanks
- Et tu?et TOO
- And you?
- Quid est nomen tibi?kwid est NO-men TI-bee
- What's your name?
- Mihi nomen est...MEE-hee NO-men est
- My name is...
- Unde es?OON-deh es
- Where are you from?
- Sum ex...sum eks
- I'm from...
- Mihi placetMEE-hee PLA-ket
- I like it
- Pulchrum estPUL-krum est
- It's beautiful
- Bene venistiBEH-neh weh-NIS-tee
- Welcome
Quomodo (how) tu (you) vales (are you?). Formal, using tu for singular you. Vale (be well) is the core of the question.
Bene (well) valeo (I am). Very common response. Also recte (correctly) or optime (very well).
Tu alone (you) also works with questioning tone. Always volley questions back in Roman social custom.
Literally "to me the name is ...".
Literally "it pleases me".
Literally "you have come well". To several people: "bene venistis".