Augustine, on the other hand, began to use his memory soon after he was born, notably in the service of learning to communicate through language (in Roman North Africa, this language was Latin). Augustine, as usual, is ambivalent about this ability, noting that it allowed him to "enter more deeply into the stormy society of human life." Augustine finds the way language was used and taught at school particularly unsettling; he laments that he was taught to talk and write for perverted goals, specifically to earn future prestige and money.