Free online course on 'Archaeology of Portus'
The University of Southampton and FutureLearn are teaming up to offer a six-week online course on the ‘Archaeology of Portus: exploring the lost harbour of ancient Rome’. The massive open online course, which is freely open to anyone interested in the topic, begins on May 19th.
The Teaching of Latin in a Multicultural Society: Problems and Possibilities
The phenomenon of bicultural alienation amounting to almost total loss of identity is frequently documented. The problem of multilingualism has different aspects: to be able to join the mainstream of modern African urban life, native African speakers need to acquire at least one, often two, European-based languages. To promulgate an own, African education that would equip the native speaker with the tools to adapt to an ‘Africanized’ technological and media- controlled era would require the adaptation in South Africa alone of about eleven African languages to this era and its specialized vocabulary