What I find from what's left of my Latin (and as a daily French speaker, though it's not my native language) is that if I pick up an Italian newspaper I can tantalizingly almost get the gist: there was a bank robbery, the robbers fled in a car and were pursued by the police. But were they caught or did they escape? Was anyone hurt? Basically I miss out on the interesting part.

Another possibility is Dunning-Kruger: I understand so poorly that it wasn't even an article about a bank robbery.