Living Latin
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Living Latin is an expression referring to the living use of Latin, a classical language that has often been classified as "dead".
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[edit] Proponents
The proponents of Living Latin can be divided into two groups. Some want to adopt active language usage as a means to make teaching of the language not only more enjoyable, but also more efficient than it has been, drawing from the experience of recent changes in methodology in the area of modern language teaching. Others champion a return to Latin as a means of communication among people, mainly from different nationalities, or as an academic language, as it was in Europe from Roman times until the 18th century (cf. Latin language revival).
[edit] Institutions
Institutions offering Living Latin instruction include the University of Kentucky and the Fundatio Melissa. Also very well-known is the Italian latinist and pedagogue Gigiotto Miraglia.
The SALVI organization is a proponent of this philosophy, and the Societas Circulorum Latinorum gathers together the many Latin Circles spreading all over the world where Latin speakers meet to speak their language, whereas the Septimana Latina is one of many annual meetings of Latin enthusiasts in Europe conducted entirely in Latin, to name but a few of the activities of the Latin speaking community.
There is also a Latin edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The Adventures of Cicero and Virgil: A lively, Latin webcomic, and probably the only Latin webcomic.
- Poeta ex Machina Text-to-Speech for Latin poetry. Calm authentic (androgynous) voice.
- Phrases for conversational latin
- Subtilia.org - Latin literary periodical
