LANGUAGES
FOCUS AREAS - Translation of various texts, lyrics...(French, Spanish & Latin)
- History of languages...Latin language of the elite...How romance languages emerged
- Architecture...cathedrals & various monuments (Rome, Paris, Madrid)--advent of flying buttresses & stained glass windows
- Borrowing of words from one culture to another (liber--libro--livre)--how language links and divides us...how we can misunderstand each other due to how we translate something into our own language
- East/West connection to Chinese
- Roman Empire history & its fall
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