Spanish Is Latin

Like most nerds of a certain stripe, I&rsquo;d always known that the Romance languages, true to their name, descend from the Roman Empire and Latin. But the YouTube creator behind 10 Minute Spanish has a genuinely great multi-part series on how Latin became Castilian, which became the national dialect spoken across the Iberian Peninsula. Somewhere in there was the light bulb moment: It&rsquo;s…