Readers respond to a letter which declared Latin a dead language with little relevance to modern education A correspondent asks whether there is any demand for Latin among secondary students (Letters, ...

There are problems with language learning in schools and universities – but these need not be as terminal or wretched as is made out. Latin and Greek have long had to struggle in the education system, ...

Latin language and Roman literature focuses its research on the Latin language and material written in Latin from antiquity to the modern period. In recent years, the emphasis has been on the ...

Instead of transitioning between Latin and English, spoken Latin keeps the cognition all in one language. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Getty Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art under ...

The Latin for “tweet” is pîpo, so there is a certain ring to Papa pîpat: for that, remarkably, is what the Pope is doing to some 200,000 followers. Since one of the things that is always said about ...

My father left school at 14, with a certificate: “DUX” it read. Just this month, age 91, he thought to ask me what it meant. “Leader!” I replied, “Ah” he said, “I’d always wondered...” It is the kind ...

Latin has a bad rap. In my high school, only six students in my grade of 698 take the subject — and the numbers are dropping. There is so little interest that this year no one has opted to learn the ...

The reporter who broke the news of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation got the scoop because she understood his announcement in Latin. How much of it is spoken in the Vatican and elsewhere these days?

Latin is a classical language and also the Indo-European Language. Earlier, it was spoken in the Tiber areas of Rome, but once the Roman Republic came into power, the language started to dominate: ...