english to latin

Since Latin is what most people would call a "dead" language, Latin does not have a "basic vocabulary" of "must-know" words. People who study Latin usually translate words and texts to and from English.

As for the letters they use, English uses the Latin alphabet, so most of the letters used in English are used in Latin - except for "j" and "v". (Classical Latin does not have the letter "j" - it is rendered as "consonantal i". "V" is rendered as "consonantal u".) Furthermore, some people might write "ae" as "æ", but this is nonstandard. It is a letter used mostly in Scandinavian these days (Norwegian and Danish - not Swedish).

Latin is seldom spoken. These days, only a few masses are held in Latin. I don't know what you mean by "rules for speaking and writing Latin", but the main difference lies in the fact that the word order in Latin is very free (not irrelevant, though, as some might believe), because noun cases are declined in such a way that they're very different from each other. The verb is usually at the end of the sentence.

So how would I be able to tech myself latin if theres no really specific way. What I mean is how can Itech myself latin if theirs no "basic vocabulary" that would make it easer to understand and interpurt this so called "dead" language? What would be the best way for me to teach myself latin? Would I Translate english into latin, what would be the best thing to do that would make it easer for me to understand latin?
Further more how did latin die off and why did it die off? what happened to make it die off?

the best way to learn a language is to take a course if it is available. if not, i am sure there are some books with "latin basics" so to speak if you check a local quality bookstore. and it isnt so much that it died, it has become infused into several languages so its legacy lives on; it has more or less evolved in the same way the we no longer refer to each other as thee and thou and speaketh not in the ways of Middle English(which makes for infernal reading)