Are dead languages ​​still alive?

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By: Pascal Paradou

Is there still an interest in studying dead languages ​​in the 21st century? In school as in everyday life, Latin and ancient Greek hardly interest anyone. However, they have many advantages.

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Why revive interest in dead languages? How to teach Latin in a lively way?

Guests:
- Pierre Judet de La Combe , director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), author of The future of the ancients : daring to read the Greeks and the Latins (Albin Michel).
- Robert Delord , teacher of classical letters and president of the Arrête ton char! Association, author of Mordicus, let's not lose our Latin in editions, (Les Belles lettres).

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