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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.

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.

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First Published: 09/08/2012

Updated: 09/02/2018

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