Latin 101 Learning a Classical Language - Hans-Friedrich Mueller
Category: History
Narrator: Hans-Friedrich Mueller
Tags: History, Tutorial, Adults
Series: The Great Courses, No. 2201 Length: 36 lectures | 30 minutes each Files: MP3, ***If you like the download, please leave a comment below - feedback is always nice - and stick around and SEED so that many others will get to enjoy it too :D *** _______________________________________________, Latin lives! The language of Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, St. Jerome, and countless other great authors is alive and well in the modern world. It lives in the Romance languages, which are the lineal descendants of Latin. It flourishes in English, which draws a major part of its vocabulary from Latin. It thrives in the technical terms of science, law, and other fields. Latin is used in the traditional liturgy and proclamations of the Catholic Church. And it is the language of choice for inscriptions, mottoes, and any idea that needs to be stated with permanence and precision., Above all, Latin lives in thousands of pages of writings that were preserved from the ancient worldpoems, plays, speeches,
