Living Latin
From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.
The expression Living Latin refers to the living use of Latin, a classical language that has often being classified as "dead". There are two main proponents of Living Latin. On the one hand there are those who 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. On the other hand, there are those who champion a return to Latin as a means of communication among people, mainly from different nationalities, or as an academic language, as it always was throughout the whole history of Europe until no more than two hundred years ago (cf. Latin language revival).
Institutions offering Living Latin instruction include the University of Kentucky or the Fundatio Melissa (http://users.skynet.be/Melissalatina/).
The SALVI (http://www.latin.org) organization is a proponent of this philosophy, and the Societas Circulorum Latinorum (http://augustinus.eresmas.net/scl/) gathers together the many Latin Circles spreading all over the world where Latin speakers meet to speak their language, whereas the Septimana Latina (http://www.septimanalatina.org) 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 (http://www.latinitatis.com/).
There is even a Latin Wikipaedia (http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_prima)!
