Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language Free Audiobook Download by Nicola Gardini


The audiobook is a collection of essays about language and Latin. Gardini explores why people study Latin, what it's like for them, and what it means to the culture around them. He also talks about how Latin is useless when it comes to communication, but has been useful in science and literature.

The Pleasures of a Useless Language is written in the Latin language, but it's not just for academics and literary scholars. This amusing story about a man named Adelbert Tham has many things to smile about. The book is full of puns, word play and allusions that are sure to make you chuckle.

The Pleasures of a Useless Language is an audiobook about the history of Latin and its future written by Nicola Gardini. The narrator, Todd Portnowitz, has a deep voice that makes this book sound like a fairy tale. It's common to find old languages in Europe becoming less and less important because they are not spoken or used anymore. The Pleasures of a Useless Language brings lightheartedness and joy to the reader with many original puns and jokes throughout the story.

Nicola Gardini's audiobook "Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language" is a long, engaging, and often funny account of how language works. The book is also a tribute to the greatness of ancient Latin.

If you were born in the 20th century, chances are you learned Latin in school. You may even still learn Latin at university. But you will probably not read it in your spare time like readers of Nicola Gardini's Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language do. They will sit back and enjoy their splendor as they listen to the audiobook version narrated by [Todd Portnowitz]—and the author himself for that matter, who is also the narrator.

Published Date 2019-11-12
Duration 8 hours 19 minutes
Author Nicola Gardini
Narrated Todd Portnowitz
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Abridged No
Is It Free? 30-days Free
Category Language Instruction
Parent Category Other, Literary Criticism

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