Written language: Most people in Ancient Rome days spoke Latin. Latin was the main language of Rome. In ancient rome people say salve which means hello. In those days to say please and thank you would say et gratias tibi placet. The latin spread around the world from rome straight to greece. The people these days still speak latin. Latin was an italic language the grammer of which relies little on word order. Its alphabet was based on the Etruscan alphabet,which was in turn based on the greek alphabet. While latin remained the written language of the Roman empire, Greek came to be the language spoken by the well-educationelite, as most of the literature studied by romans was written in greek.
Food: The main meal romans ate in the day was dinner and was ate in the early evening, sometimes outside during the summer. The wealthy ate shellfish to start with songbirds, snails, and doormice, for the main course they ate wild boar, calfs brains, and venison, with a side of peas and asparagus.Then for dessert honey cakes with figs.During the earlier Roman days there meal was very simple, they were perpared by the mother or slave.The rich Romans bought there food from an open air markets.The poor ate a meal of only the foods they could grow, wich is beans, vegetables and fruits. The fruits were apples, pears, and figs. The vegetables were onions, cucumbers, carrots, garlic, and cabbage. The Romans had a program that they did and it was called annona, they did it so that they could help the poor buy food.Slaves served their guests cheese made from goat milk and olives before the main meals."Cena" means dinner in italian.
Sports:Romes most popular sport is soccer, but they call it football because they invented it before Americans. It is a very imaginative, geometrical, tactical, and unforeseable sport. Romans call soccer " the nicest game on earth", they also say that to play soccer (football) you need technical qualities, that are often inborn, and also lots of imagination and great tactical qualities. Soccer is also very intriguing and thrilling, many variables affect the game before it is played, which includes long debates, depending on technical and human qualities. If you score a goal, it can be easy at some times, but also can be impossible, the quality of soccer is not measured by quantity of scored points, although an important factor. Soccer can also be played with different styles and cultures, from all these reasons it is the most popular sport in Rome.