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Continuing classical Latin
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This free course, Continuing classical Latin, gives you the opportunity to hear a discussion of the development of the Latin language.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- demonstrate an awareness of the general differences between spoken and written languages
- demonstrate an awareness of how spoken Latin developed into the later Romance languages
- demonstrate an awareness of some early Latin forms of words, as found in Plautus and archaic Latin
- demonstrate an awareness of Latin's place within the wider Indo-European tradition of languages.
First Published: 09/08/2012
Updated: 09/02/2018
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